OK - so I was researching trying to get things sorted with my 4k monitor and I learned something that I think most of you will find useful if you take a few moments to read. My prob with scaling on my monitor is that in LoL certain things are way too small like the health bars - HOWEVER, I still play at a higher resolution than most of you. TIL you can do this as well pretty freaking easily.
AMD (and I believe NVIDIA) have something called virtual super resolution. Lets say your max rez on your monitor is 1920x1080. Pretty standard stuff. Well using VSR, you use your graphics card to more or less emulate the higher resolution scaling - the result is a 1920x1080 monitor that can run its desktop and game at 2560x1440. Now, I tested this on my other monitor and took no FPS hit - that might be the same for you.
Anyway, to try this if you have AMD
- update to latest drivers (latest release was 7 day ago or so)
- open up cataylyst control panel.
- Click on my digital flat displays
- Click properties
- Click the check box for enable virtual super resolution
- click apply
- Close catalyst control panel
- on desktop, right click and then click on resolution
- Adjust the resolution to 2560x1440
- Open a LOL custom game and adjust your resolution in gam
Try the max setting or another and see if you like it and if you take a FPS hit. If you like it, you have a sharper looking image and more field of view