With the new visibility update, does a higher rez monitor improve visibility?

[zhutwo]

On 1080p I can see dots okay with enhanced vis, but I have a hard time making out enough silhouette details to ID planes at distance. A higher rez monitor should help with this but I've read that a higher rez monitor previously would make it harder to spot dots because they'd be rendered smaller. What's the situation like now?

[SharpeXB]

In 4K distant aircraft appear as very small but distinct sharp specks and they can be identified quite far away. 

[RedKestrel]

11 hours ago, zhutwo said:

On 1080p I can see dots okay with enhanced vis, but I have a hard time making out enough silhouette details to ID planes at distance. A higher rez monitor should help with this but I've read that a higher rez monitor previously would make it harder to spot dots because they'd be rendered smaller. What's the situation like now?

using 1440p, the spotting improvement helped out a lot. I don't think they are disadvantaged much, especially if you get the higher res monitor larger. I don't think high rest is a problem for spotting. Distant ID can still be an issue as the scaling you see at max FOV doesnt stay the same, so when you zoom in on a distant aircraft you don't get a lot of extra detail at long range - but the lower resolutions aren't any better for sure.

Still, I would say that comparing apples to apples, for ID purposes its better to have a higher resolution monitor, and spotting is probably close to the same.. Just make sure your card can run the higher res.

[SharpeXB]

FWIW Jason thought 4K looked great

 

 

[jollyjack]

i agree, and 144kHz is also a big plus ...

[Gambit21]

I’ve always had great spotting at 4K