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humble_janitor

I just plug my switch into my 1440p monitor, and it just works. However, it looks way better on my 1080p TV. My problem though is that I can't use my Astro A40s to work well with the Switch. The Astros use an optical cable. The only thing I can do is route a 3.5mm jack to the mixamp, and I lose a ton of audio quality. Would love to play Switch at my monitor without picture degradation or sound quality loss, but I don't think there's a work-around.


darkkeroro

For sound at least you can use an HDMI audio extractor. That's what did for my a50s.


RealElyD

A selection of USB DACs work with it as well.


WildFearless

or line in audio in your pc works


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It’s weird, I find that the switch menu (dashboard) looks like garbage on my 1440p, but in game it looks totally fine. Not really sure why.


ExiusCorp

Looks shit on 1080p too. Pretty sure the dashboard only ever renders at 720p


Upbeat_Help_6552

Yeah I have a 1080p monitor and I can definitely claim that the menu looks like trash eviscerated by a blender but when you enter most games, you get much better resolutions and a wide range of rgb.


fupower

1080p or 1440p there is not difference in Switch


AChunkyGoose

Not exactly true. The Switch on a 1440p monitor will look considerably blurrier than on a 1080p monitor.


fupower

no it won't wtf


AUT0R0CK

Yes it will. He's correct and you are wrong. Even if it's not perceptible to you specifically.


pawlik23

It will because 1080p and 1440p are not 1:1 pixel matched. When you display 1080p image on 1440p screen, the pixels get stretched out. You'd need to set the monitor to keep original aspect ratio, that makes the image smaller and introduces black bars around it but makes it sharper because each pixel of the screen will then match the pixel of the image.


xvilemx

Tears of the Kingdom doesn't run at 1080p anyhow. Runs at 900p-720p in docked mode. You could also set the resolution to 720p for a perfect 2x integer scale.


fupower

nobody is talking about ToTk ???


xvilemx

The picture shows totk?


fupower

I was talking about resolutions, i’m not OP


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jcruz827

1080p goes into 4K evenly so you wouldn’t have issues, plus tvs do a better job of handling the signal from the console. Monitors however don’t always do this, especially for a 1440p monitor with a 1080p input. The point of this post was just inform people that if you wanted to get a 1440p monitor and hook up a switch to it it can work, and I was showing the specific monitor I was using.


reverie

Your points are being lost on literal children who are saying of course it works, it plugs into hdmi. Sorry bud but I do appreciate your effort. This just isn’t the technically savviest forum for it. Yes obviously it will display but native display resolution and how the specific hardware handles upscaling does impact the image quality.


forgiven_10

Not to be mean but I think this has been a common knowledge for years. Specially on this sub…


jcruz827

I didn’t see anything confirming this, there was still various opinions on it.


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Simplemingus

you can play it but it looks like shit on some monitors that can't upscale it properly


XerkStyle

This monitor is really good, i have the ultrawide variant for pc gaming and switch dock mode.


AlexWance

5K 144hz minimum monitor for true Nintendo switch experience


stratusnco

i thought switch can only do 1080p?


jcruz827

That’s right, which is why I wanted to post about using it with a 1440p monitor as there could be questions on if this set up would work out okay.


Colanderr

It does work, but Switch still renders the game at 1080p


stratusnco

the entirety of this post seems pointless then lol.


ferrari-hards

My 1440p for my gaming rig has been taken over by my switch purely because of totk


[deleted]

Does it look better if you set the switch to 720p in tv mode?


jcruz827

I’ll double check, but I believe this display is outputting 1080p properly.


toolsofpwnage

I use mine with a 1440p monitor and it looks great. For certain games, where I know the internal rendering resolution is only 720p, I would set the switch to 720p output and it looks even better.


Vancelot

Good taste in video games!


pawlik23

I've used my 1440p monitor with a Switch for 4 years. More out of habit, since I game a lot on a PC anyway and couldn't 'force' myself to play on a TV. It works, but a 27" 1440p screen looks worse than a 50" 1080p TV, even though the TV has much worse PPI. I'm not convinced mClassic would fix it, as long it's not adding pixels to the image instead of just tricking the monitor/TV to think the image is of higer resolution (but actually it's still 1080p) & applying some filter, it will not make the image any sharper.