LG OLED C4 1080p scaling performance question

[Donfrancisquito]

Hello! I'm considering getting a LG C4 42" for a good price taking advantage of a good discount (about 750 €) and I have some questions that I hope I can get your assistance with.

The TV would be placed side by side with my current AOC 24" IPS 1080p monitor, and it would have a varied use, from movies and shows to PC and old console gaming (PS3). The thing is: my PC is old by today's standards (CPU Intel I7-8700K and GPU Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti, which doesn't even have HDMI 2.1 nor G-Sync with HDMI, but I don't mind using V-Sync with single player games which are the games I would play on TV).

My biggest concern is the **SCALING** performance of the TV as you can imagine, because the games will be sent to the TV at 1080p the major part of the time. Online reviews praise its scaling, and I'm considering getting a TV instead of a QD-OLED monitor based on the presumption that the scaling possibilities will be much better on the LG OLED TV (without even talking about the vastly superior specs and settings for cinephile purposes, which I also have).

The viewing distance while gaming at 1080p would be about 3 meters. Have you experienced playing at 1080p with a C4/G4? Will it look as blurry and bad as people report with PC monitors? Upgrading my PC is a no-go for now with these crazy GPU prices, and I can play almost everything at high/slightly tweaked settings at 1080p and I honestly don't need more. But if the experience is abysmal at 1080p... I wouldn't buy it. But on the other hand I'm so done with TN, IPS and VA drawbacks. Thank you!

Edit: I own Lossless Scaling software bought on Steam, if that's something that could be of help in my case

[RealNC]

Well, LS will allow for integer scaling, which might be preferable. (1080p maps perfectly to 4K with integer scaling, no black bars.) The LS1 upscaler is the best one if you don't like integer upscaling, but has quite an impact on perf.

But at the end of the day, it's one of those things you need to judge for yourself, since for every person who says 1080p on a 4K TV looks bad you'll find another person who says it looks good.

[Donfrancisquito]

Thanks for your reply. Would you agree that scaling performance is much better on a LG OLED C4 than any 4K QD-OLED PC monitor? Because maybe I'm starting from a false premise.

[RealNC]

I don't know. But you can take a look at the rtings.com reviews, since they do test scaling quality.

[kalston]

From a 3m distance on a 42" the built-in scaler will look great.

I did 1080p from 1m on a 48" panel from 2020 LG OLED and it was soft (or too aliased, with integer) but I would personally tolerate it when having budget constraints.

1440p looks really decent, even from 1m. And both resolutions make 120hz possible with full colours on the 1080 ti, sadly no VRR though.

I have a QD-OLED monitor too but did not test the scaling there, since it is tiny compared to the TV and I have a modern GPU that can do DLSS now, so I never need to change the resolution. Usually monitors have crappy scaling compared to TVs though.