Windows 10: Running 4k video on a 4k screen with Windows resolution set at 1920x1080

Okay so my monitor is a 3840x2160 TV, and my video card can handle 3840x2160 video streaming.


I avoid at all costs running windows 10 in 3840x2160 resolution. Even with desktop scaling, some apps run terribly.


If I open a 4k video in VLC or any video player will it play in 4k? Or would I have to first change the resolution in Windows 10 to 3840x2160 and then play the video?


Believe it or not there are so many unrelated questions with these keywords in it that I couldn't find an answer to this question anywhere.

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Windows spotlight 1920x1080 images on 4k screen

Windows spotlight downloading 1920x1080 on 4k screen. There has been a thread offering solution that doesn't work - clean settings and assets folders. But it won't change anything. Still 1920x1080. Is there any other solution?

 

1920x1080 is blurry on a 4K monitor

I recently bought a new laptop with a 4K display, which runs Windows 10. I had assumed the display wouldn't be an issue, but it has been in regards to how images show up (with 200% zoom on so I can actually read things), so I thought I'd try to change my
display resolution to 1920x1080. This is exactly half the size of 4K, which is 3840x2160 - so I assumed that 1 pixel would take up 4 pixels on my monitor. As it turns out, I was quickly proven wrong, as that resolution displays TERRIBLY on this monitor. Everything
is blurry, as if it was upscaled using "bilinear" rather than "nearest neighbor" - which is not at all what I was hoping for.

So, my question here is relatively simple. Is it possible for Windows 10 to display 1920x1080 on a 4K monitor with crisp, clean pixels and no blur?

I am a pixel artist, and one can probably imagine that blur is exactly what I DON'T want when doing stuff like that. It seems like I can't escape it with this monitor, though - at 4K images display incorrectly on most programs, and at 1920x1080 EVERYTHING
displays incorrectly. This isn't the most imperative issue ever, but I'd really love to find a solution for it, as I've been trying to tinker with this since I bought the laptop to no avail.

(As a side note, this resolution has given me issues outside of pixel art as well, mainly with gaming. Overall it's really just super impractical and difficult to work with, and I'd rather just be able to use 1920x1080 for a multitude of reasons.)

 

4k Resolution scaling but then watching a 4k video

Hi Anup,

Thank you for your response.

So therefore is my previous point on certain program's displaying as blurry when scaling is used wrong? I.e. as they'll be effectively displayed similarly to full HD resolution?

Also, if I used scaling at 200% and I wanted to watch a 4K video would it be displayed at full HD (due to the scaling) or 4K resolution.

Thanks again.