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Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

Page 1 of 31
Page 1 of 31

Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

Page 2 of 31
Page 2 of 31

Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

Page 3 of 31
Page 3 of 31

Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

Page 4 of 31
Page 4 of 31

Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

Page 5 of 31
Page 5 of 31

Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

Page 6 of 31
Page 6 of 31

Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

Page 7 of 31
Page 7 of 31

Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

Page 8 of 31
Page 8 of 31

Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

Page 9 of 31
Page 9 of 31

Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

Page 10 of 31
Page 10 of 31

Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

Page 11 of 31
Page 11 of 31

Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

Page 12 of 31
Page 12 of 31

Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

Page 13 of 31
Page 13 of 31

Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

Page 14 of 31
Page 14 of 31

Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

Page 15 of 31
Page 15 of 31

Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

Page 16 of 31
Page 16 of 31

Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

Page 17 of 31
Page 17 of 31

Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

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Page 18 of 31

Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

Page 19 of 31
Page 19 of 31

Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

Page 20 of 31
Page 20 of 31

Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

Page 21 of 31
Page 21 of 31

Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

Page 22 of 31
Page 22 of 31

Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

Page 23 of 31
Page 23 of 31

Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

Page 24 of 31
Page 24 of 31

Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

Page 25 of 31
Page 25 of 31

Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

Page 26 of 31
Page 26 of 31

Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

Page 27 of 31
Page 27 of 31

Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

Page 28 of 31
Page 28 of 31

Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

Page 29 of 31
Page 29 of 31

Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

Page 30 of 31
Page 30 of 31

Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.

What if a dungeon crawler was not, in fact, limited to the dank, dark underground? Grimrock 2 answers that question beautifully—in that it's utterly beautiful—as it marries a decades-old genre with the ability to explore the surface of the mysterious Isle of Nex.

Grimrock 2's environs range from fresh forests to sunny beaches to, yes, of course, moody dungeons. And they're all beautiful, and often austere, in a way that smartly blends the early days of dungeon crawlers with modern technology.

As always with Pixel Boost, we had to crank Grimrock to the limit. That called for downsampling. To do so, we enabled Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution in the Nvidia Control Panel, then ran Grimrock at 3840x2160 pixels. It ran just fine, although the UI unfortunately doesn't scale with resolution. That gave us a pretty tiny HUD, but made Nox all the prettier.

One tip: while the game would run at 5K (5120x2880), it had a tendency to crash when we snapped our screenshots with FRAPS. 4K performed flawlessly. Downsample away!

Page 31 of 31
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When he's not obsessively optimizing and re-optimizing a tangle of conveyor belts in Satisfactory (it's really becoming a problem), he's probably playing a 20-year-old Final Fantasy or some opaque ASCII roguelike. With a focus on writing and editing features, he seeks out personal stories and in-depth histories from the corners of PC gaming and its niche communities. 50% pizza by volume (deep dish, to be specific).

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