Buying a curved monitor

[lionheart]

Screen arrived and set up, first impressions....OMFG IT'S AWESOME.

[FatBob]

Are there a lot of games that run straight off at the 3440 x 1440 resolution ?

and how is it on the main windows screen

[lionheart]

Only tried BF1 and Doom so far but all run 21:9 no probs, have to increase FOV to get full benefit. I understand some older games may need some fiddling about with but Windows is fine and scales automatically.

It is a thing of beauty.

[Chaosphere]

Damn man... if I had a spare £1500 (500 for the GTX 1080 you'd need to run it!)...

Dedicated Lion's monitor corner at the LAN anyone? :norty:

[DrunkenZombiee]

I think I had one of these before anyone else? I was the first one to bring to a LAN for sure. I have had it for almost 2 years now and its a love hate relationship.

For gaming I get frustrated sometimes as very few games support it natively which I want to play. For example fallout 4 doesn't support it natively and if you hack it you end up with glitches. Overwatch and SC2 do not support it nativelya nd there are no workarounds for these games as blizzard see it as hacking to get more screenspace. For these games having the extra real-estate is a waste and I find myself not buying games that I want to play because they don't support the monitor.
The curve I actually am beginning to find annoying as I am using it alot for photo editing and it does warp the edges of the screen as the pixels are larger at the edges because of the curve. This is annoying when you are trying to show people photos on the screen from afar who are not sitting exactly in front of it. It also causes issues with colour cast because of viewing angles for the curve. You cant sit off axis far away from it and use it as a TV really.

The big up size is actually productivity, for work its amazing! I have multiple VM's open and webpages all on the same screen. The PPI is spot on with 34 inches at 3440x1440!! This is the main use case for it.

Would I go 4k... Personally no as there are scaling issues in windows still and the PPI is too high unless you go for a crazy large screen. I do like the ultrawide flexibility for productivity and I am not much of a gamer these days so the benefits outweigh the  cons. Also my 780 TI is getting a bit long in the tooth and I am not planning to upgrade it for a while so 3440x1440 is pushing the hardware I have with most games on Medium-High. On 4k this would be Medium-low with the 33% extra pixels.

If your a true "gamer" stick with 1440 monitors with 144hz refresh would be my advice but if your a jack of all trades or into simulation games go for ultrawide. If your into media production go for a 5k monitor so you can view videos at 4k and still have a UI.

Cheers,

DZ.

[Penfold]

DZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good to see you've risen from the dead.

How are the LAN photos coming on? Please can you dropbox some for us

[Tutonic]

That's a really useful long-term review DZ, cheers.

My problem with 4K as it stands is that it pretty much forces you into the high-end GPU market - most mid range and certainly very few low end cards are going to be able to drive that resolution.

I'd rather stick with 1440, rather than have to buy a £500 GPU every couple of years.

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[Sneakytiger]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-Curved-PG348Q-3440x1440-monitor/dp/B01A9EN4YU/ref=aag_m_pw_dp?ie=UTF8&m=A3G5D8YNXW1PF2

reckon i'm gonna pull the trigger on this.

[Twyst]

What does a curved monitor bring over a flat screen?

I will probably be changing from my current ASUS ROG Swift to something with freesync as I'm very disappointed with G-SYNC right now and hopefully will upgrade when SQ42 is released and hopefully with AMD's Vega.

I finally bought a new DP cable for my monitor as I had some spare change.
Lo and behold it fixed the problem. Can't believe I didn't try that earlier when I first noticed it and had many monies to spare!