Reduce Game Size
Reduce Game Size
You're looking to adapt your current gaming setup for a future 1080P monitor. Yes, there are ways to run games at higher resolutions like 1080P while maintaining performance. You can use downscaling techniques or hardware acceleration options to achieve smoother frames on your new display.
Certainly, in some ultra matches you might see scores ranging from 50 to 60 with a 4x MSAA, which means you should be okay at 2x levels too.
aa no longer increases resolution, but reducing its use will save VRAM and can boost performance by 10-50%, depending on the version and kind of aa applied.
If you're still considering downsampling, the most straightforward and practical method with AMD graphics cards is using GeDoSaTo. You can find it at http://blog.metaclassofnil.com/?page_id=582. I tried it for Mass Effect 2—it's very user-friendly, automatically adjusting the game settings to higher resolutions and then scaling up or down to your desired level. Personally, I don't play at such low resolutions; 4-5k works perfectly fine for me.