SimCity 4 screen resolution using Lossless Scaling

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Hello! I made a video a few nights ago in which I ran SimCity 4 through various scaling methods available in Lossless Scaling available for purchase on Steam.

My display is 4K and I ran SimCity 4 in 1080p. If I cannot be heard that well in the video, I have a Shure XLR microphone, but I seem to have broken XLR functionality on my sound card's digital to analogue converter when I tried to repair it. Thus, I used my webcam's microphone at night in my apartment. I didn't want to be too loud.

As I said in the video, selecting integer scaling did nothing. The reason for that is that my graphics card drivers support integer scaling. As a result, I have integer scaling set without setting it in Lossless Scaling.

At the end of the video, I had said that something like this will have to be done on 8K monitors, which are a way off from even becoming popular for gamers. When I had said that, I didn't mean that one will have to use a scaling method available in a program like Lossless Scaling. I had just meant that because I'm already having difficulty seeing the user interface at native 4K, SimCity 4 in native 8K will be unplayable!

Personally, I prefer the LS1 scaling method that I used in the video over integer scaling. In SimCity 3000 Unlimited on my PC, I can't play it at native 4K because the user interface is so miniscule. SC3KU is very playable at 1080p using integer scaling, however. As SimCity 3000 Unlimited is a 2D-only game, there is no noticeable loss in visual quality scaling from 1080p to 4K using integer scaling. The user interface is very visible, though. 

[TheMurderousCricket 5,042]

Sorry for the rudimentary question but why the scaling and what is it supposed to do to the game? This is the part I'm missing.

[Lucario Boricua 7,026]

20 hours ago, TheMurderousCricket said:

Sorry for the rudimentary question but why the scaling and what is it supposed to do to the game? This is the part I'm missing.

I think the difference is that, instead of the game looking zoomed out, the visuals are upscaled to look like an HD version of the actual zoom level.

[kkffoo 259]

Is this the right utility on steam?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/993090/Lossless_Scaling/

I noticed that it was on sale just now and was wondering about trying it (also for other games like sims 1).