Trilobit
Absolutely Cozy
I wonder if this is something that will be updated in a future model/dock model.
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Switch 2 vs 1440p - What is happening?
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S0ULZB0URNE
Member
Really I don't see it.It is the eShop download for the Switch 2 edition of SF6.
Kataploom
Gold Member
I got confused at first because there was a SF6 shortcut in the eshop but that takes you to a bundle page, you have to be in the game page, make sure that it's not listing all the DLCs, otherwise you're in the bundle page and can easily move to the game page by selecting the game card
YeulEmeralda
Linux User
Same man. When I hear people talk about reaction timesIt really doesn't matter if a Game doesnt run at 4k 120 internally .. it would allow any resolution to run 120 . the ps5 and Xbox games mostly do 120 like that.
For me I'm old and am just happy I still see colors
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
Thanks
Doctor Hades
Member
1440p is greyed out in the Display settings on my LG C3 OLED TV as well but I know that resolution works because Welcome Tour switches to 1440p 120 fps for the 120 fps mini-game and then back to 60 fps once you complete it (impressively with just a split second black screen indicating the resolution change). I know other games allow the refresh rate to be changed manually such as 60 Hz to 120 fps and back but I've never seen any game switch resolution so efficiently and near-seamlessly as Welcome Tour does.
If you have a 4K TV that I would just set the Display resolution on your Switch 2 to 4K and let the games switch to 1440p for 120 fps as needed rather than setting 1440p in the Display option.s
If you have a 4K TV that I would just set the Display resolution on your Switch 2 to 4K and let the games switch to 1440p for 120 fps as needed rather than setting 1440p in the Display option.s
flagdaddy
Member
4k120hz is amazing.
It can do fixed 40fps.
Now if you want to have a laugh how shit the current OS is.
Switch won't support eARC.
Since my receiver won't support 4K HDR AND 120fps.
I connect the switch 2 on the hdmi input on my C4 but…. It won't output 5.1 surround in this way. Only stereo on my dolby atmos system
My ps5 pro can do this perfectly fine.
What a fucking joke
eARC support is at the TV level. The Switch doesn't get to decide whether it does or does not support eARC lmao.
What TV do you have? Sounds like either don't actually have eARC or that your television is crap and doesn't support LPCM
Boneless
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IFireflyl
Gold Member
I'm all for calling out companies, but only when it is warranted. In this case, it is partially warranted.
1440p isn't a standard TV resolution, and the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 devices are primarily aimed at TV users. The person you're responding to was wrong for using that as part of their argument against Nintendo.
However, I said it is "partially warranted" that Nintendo was called out because of the lack of VRR support in docked mode. Nintendo designed the console with USB-C in mind, and only USB-C in mind. There is no VRR support in docked mode because the Switch 2 outputs video to the dock via USB-C using DisplayPort Alternate Mode, and the dock is then converting that signal to HDMI. The problem is that DisplayPort Adaptive Sync and HDMI VRR are two completely separate protocols, and there is no conversion adaptor that properly handles the conversion of the former to the latter.
To support VRR, Nintendo would have needed to separate USB-C charging from video output, and implemented HDMI at a SoC level so that the base of the Switch 2 would have both USB-C input (for charging) and HDMI input (for video). The dock could then have been modified to support both the USB-C connector and the HDMI connector. The reason this frustration towards Nintendo is warranted is because those changes would have added less than $5 to the total cost of the Nintendo Switch 2, and the bulk of that <$5 cost is including the amortized estimates for HDMI certification and engineering costs. Additionally, if Nintendo had designed the Switch 2 this way from the beginning they would have saved a couple of bucks per device by not needing the DisplayPort to HDMI conversion hardware, meaning that <$5 cost increase would actually have been closer to a wash.
Nintendo absolutely could have implemented native HDMI 2.1 output on the Switch 2 without much difficulty compared to the overall complexity of designing a modern console. Adding HDMI 2.1 video directly from the SoC is basic board design. The dedicated HDMI connector along with some board routing and shielding, are modest design changes. The manufacturing impact per unit would be negligible beyond a small increase in bill of materials, and the main burden would be additional validation and certification for HDMI 2.1 features such as VRR and HDR.
Microsoft and Sony have integrated native HDMI 2.1 outputs in their consoles for years, and even low-cost streaming boxes do this. If Nintendo had made VRR in docked mode a priority, it could have been incorporated cleanly with perhaps a few extra months of design and compliance work, but they chose not to invest in this capability even though VRR has been an increasingly popular technology over the past half-decade, which they indirectly admit since handheld mode supports VRR.
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Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
LG C4 this tv checks all the marks.
My ps5 supports it in on the same HDMI port.
My switch 2 flat out refuses to get 5.1 from the tv.
When i connect it to the denon dolby atmos receiver it understand it.
However this device does not support 4k 120hz.
So i connect both my ps5 pro and switch 2 directly on the telly.
Ofc it understands it.
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Banjo64
cumsessed
What's the crack with Switch 2 on a 1440p display?
Tempted to pull the trigger on a Mobiuz EX271Q but really don't want to be playing S2 @1080p upscaled to 1440p.
Tempted to pull the trigger on a Mobiuz EX271Q but really don't want to be playing S2 @1080p upscaled to 1440p.
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kevboard
Member
with how spotty the 1440p support on the console is, it's hard to tell if it will work without someone testing it in a review or something.
I assume it should. the monitor supports it and probably has no weird hangups like TVs do with different picture modes.
Banjo64
cumsessed
Cheers mate - not a widely reviewed range so I don't think I'd get a answer to this specific query.
Think I'll just buy it and test it myself.
kevboard
Member
it should work.
my assumption with the issues on some TVs is that the handshaking, which the system does through its USB-C display port signal that gets converted by the dock to HDMI, sometimes doesn't detect the correct specs that the TV sends back.
in my case, on my Samsung TV, the Switch 2 lets me manually select 1440p when game mode is off, but won't let me select 1440p when game mode is on.
however when I actually run a 120hz game the system does automatically switch into 1440p 120hz mode (as seen in my video in thr OP)... so it does see my TV supporting 1440p, but somehow doesn't allow me to manually select it for the 60hz output in game mode.
it's very weird behaviour.
but TVs in general are weird with their HDMI handhakes.
like Sony TVs will not support 1440p on any console... but if you plug in a PC and force 1440p it works.
PC monitors are usually far less convoluted like that, so I expect it to work tbh.
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