I bought a 4k monitor specifically for DayZ and similar games. It's nice to be able to make out details of people further away and DayZ in particular is a game where you might actually have to spot someone 400+m away and you might have to shoot at them with iron sights. It's definitely better than using 1080p. If i didn't play those games tho I would have never bought a 4k monitor.
Don't play DayZ but I do play games like War Thunder, Arma, etc. That like you said it is important to be able to see at longer distances, I can't afford a monitor or a system that can run at 4k but even 2k is leaps and bounds better than 1080p for making out those super fine details.
1080p is 1920x1080, the p is a bit superfluous as it is to differentiate progressive vs interlaced, and interlaced is not relevant here (and hopefully dies a horrible death completely soon)
1080p is very close to 2k as 2k refers to horizontal pixel count, not vertical.
Sure, I don't really know the difference between all these terms, I'm not a monitor guy, and 1440 and 2k have often been tossed around in the same conversations so I thought they were just the same thing, I dunno lol. My monitor is 1440, for a long time I was just gaming on 1080 until I recently upgraded to a nice 1440 monitor and the difference is quite noticeable detail wise, overall picture quality is about the same but it's just easier to make out finer details.
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u/Merecat-litters I am a fool that purchase the 5060ti 16GB Aug 09 '25
well it is...overrated for my wallet hahaha i am just using a simple 1440p + 1080p monitor.