u/Kruzwuz

Okay so I'm definitely not a massive pc expert. I like to think I know the basic things i would need to know just from owning a pc my whole life. So if my questions are stupid. Please understand they are real questions.

So i have a 4060, an i5 14600k, and 32g, ddr5 ram (the ram i upgraded from 16 last month)

I had a 1080p 27inch monitor. Seeing my wifes 4070 1440p laptop next to me while we were playing a game made me think "wait why does her game look SO much better than mine? she has a 4070, but this difference is just crazy." So i asked chatgpt (stupidly) what could be the difference and showed screenshots of our games. It said something like "well youre running 1080p on 27inches, so your game is going to look stretched, and shes on 1440p so shes always going to have a better image, graphics card aside."

So i spent 3 days asking chatgpt and trying to look online if my pc can handle 1440p because i read that my graphics card is a 1080p card. I was very specific too "I can run everything i need to play on the highest settings possible and i get 100ish frames on even the more demanding games, which I was very happy with (on 27inches 1080p). Everything I read said something like "well obviously youre going to get a bit of a frame drop, maybe 10%-15% which I was willing to take to get the better image.

So a few hours ago I went and bought what i think is a good acer 200hz 1440p monitor. And on ALL my games, im getting UNDER 60 fps on even HIGH graphics, forget ultra. I cannot even run 60fps on high. I loaded into tarkov (i know tarkov is a special case) and went from 100fps to 55. Then I loaded into Warzone, and on HIGH graphics I get 55 fps.

My questions are 1. Is my setup really incapable of handling the monitor? Is there something im doing wrong or something i need to change? 2. I noticed that even on like medium/"balanced" graphics it still looks pretty damn good even though i thought id be able to run higher. Is the "medium" of a 1440 better than the "ultra" of a 1080? or where does it compare?

Thank you to whoever took time to read this whole thing.

I have been playing on a decent pc. And I was getting 120 frames, but on a 60hz monitor. But obviously it’s not actually 120. So I bought a 120hz monitor. And everything was fking PERFECT. It looked gorgeous. 80-120 fps, even on streets, even on ULTRA graphics. And even with the fluctuation I couldn’t even tell. It was PERFECT.

I don’t know what happened. But now I stutter like crazy so much it’s unplayable. I didn’t update anything, didn’t change anything. Just out of nowhere it’ll say I have 80-100fps but it looks like 40.

Does anyone know what may have happened? I know basic computer stuff but I’m not an expert. I asked AI but the only solution it had was “play on low graphics” which i don’t think would even fix STUTTERING would it? And it was PERFECT on ultra. If anyone knows what I can do, please let me know

So. I have about 45 min of tarkov playtime. Which was spent either getting DICKED on in 2 minutes from fuck knows where, walking around aimlessly looking for loot that I don’t know the locations of, or after walking around aimlessly, then not being able to extract because I need a MAP ITEM to know where anything is.

I’ve played 60 hours worth of Arena Breakout Infinite. Which I know is just tarkov on easy mode, or “tarkov lite”. That game tells me everything I would need to know from day 1. So I feel like I have at least some idea of how tarkov would work, just 100x easier.

Now. I really want to try to play tarkov again because I WANT to play the harder game. But where do I start? If you were a freshly new tarkov player. What would you do to learn? Who would you watch?
Because I just got done watching a video called “best beginners guide” but it started with “this is how you buy the game” and ended with “this is how your inventory looks. See how you can organize things?” It was a joke lol.

I want to know. If you were new. And you wanted to learn as much as possible. What would YOU DO. Knowing what you know now?