16:10 - How I miss thee

Gimpymoo · 29 Aug 2019 at 16:25

Maybe just me being weird but I am thinking of getting a 1920x1200 as I just cannot shake the feeling that I miss 16:10.

Anyone presently game in 16:10 or am I missing a blatant alternative?

I love ultra wide gaming but in some games, I feel I am missing something by not having 16:10.

For me, 16:10 was a great aspect ratio.

V F · 29 Aug 2019 at 16:43

I can't say I'm missing much going from 16:10 from 2005 until 2019. That and it gives you black bars for game recordings on 16:10.

Cooper · 29 Aug 2019 at 16:46

No, But even weirder is that If I could I'd single handidly restart production of the 19in Mitsubishi Diamond Pro CRT.

1600x1200@75Hz in glourious pin sharp Cathode Ray.

No modern trash LCD compares to its glorious nature

I don't care if took up half a desk and gave you a near hernia when moving it, some things are just worth it.

Greebo · 30 Aug 2019 at 09:47

SIGH WHAT A MONITOR THAT WAS

jaybee · 30 Aug 2019 at 10:10

I'm still running a Dell something or other LCD 1920 X 1200 as my daily home monitor. I also prefer the aspect ratio. 1080p is so limiting for actual work to the point that in some of my office jobs I've had at least one monitor mounted sideways for coding etc. People are mostly like, why? Then you get the people that get it and are intrigued. They try it and often like it. But for a single monitor, yes, I prefer 16:10.

bsoltan · 30 Aug 2019 at 10:16

I'm with you! It was a shame that 16:10 went away, I used to love everything about that aspect ratio.

In the end I gave up trying to find new monitors as no one was making them and switched to 16:9 all be it at 2560x1440 instead of 1920x1200.

The 16:10 monitors that were available were much more expensive to due to the panels not being as common to manufacture.

Jizzy · 30 Aug 2019 at 10:22

I agree as well, I have a 30" Hazro 16:10 monitor collecting dust at the minute, used it for like 8 years until a few months ago, where I wanted 144hz so had to to for 16:9.
I paid like £800-900 from OCUK at the time, was real expensive.

keylion · 30 Aug 2019 at 10:32

I'm still using my HP 22" 16:10 monitor, it's a great ratio for general PC use, 16:9 just seems too wide and not tall enough. There are some decent 24" 16:10 monitors with IPS screens but I find the resolution of 22" ones to be perfect. Unfortunately current 22" 16:10 monitors all seem to be cheap TN panels. I don't think there's any 16:10 monitors with a high refresh rate these days.

d_brennen · 30 Aug 2019 at 10:43

1920x1200 here, but they are productivity screens so lack the bells and whistles of modern panels like high refresh rate and adaptive sync

I've no issue gaming at 16:9, just don't want to lose the aspect ratio for work stuff. I'd rather taller monitors akin to 4:3 or 5:4 tbh

EsaT · 30 Aug 2019 at 12:59

After 5½ years with 30" 2560x1600 even 2560x1440 would be downgrade.

JediFragger · 30 Aug 2019 at 13:18

EsaT said:
After 5½ years with 30" 2560x1600 even 2560x1440 would be downgrade.

Used to love my epic Dell 2560x1600 30"

nalla · 30 Aug 2019 at 13:24

JediFragger said:
Used to love my epic Dell 2560x1600 30"

still got mine gathering dust in the spare room.

Hades · 31 Aug 2019 at 01:17

I'm still using my Dell 3007 2560x1600 30". I've had it since 2007 and still can't find anything I am happy to replace it with.

Rroff · 31 Aug 2019 at 01:55

I can live with 16:9 but I always liked gaming on my old 16:10 120Hz Samsung 2233RZ. I'm not a big fan of ultra-wide personally though it is great for some uses but largely I'm pretty happy on 2560x1440 for my main monitor.

spoffle · 31 Aug 2019 at 02:27

24:10 is the new 16:10. 3840x1600 master race.

sadbuttrue · 31 Aug 2019 at 08:17

Most people run their apps fullscreen as fiddling around with window sizes all the time is a compromise and faff.

Instead of a nice fullscreen 16:10 view, we get a complete waste of horizontal and lack of vertical space on ultrawides like this:

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james.miller · 31 Aug 2019 at 08:28

If you already have a UW panel then just create a 16 :10 resolution if you really want. I dont see any advantage though, outside of some obscure games with poor UW support maybe.

sadbuttrue said:
Most people run their apps fullscreen as fiddling around with window sizes all the time is a compromise and faff.

Hmm dont know about that. I dont, certainly not as a rule anyway. You're doing it wrong if your not making use of that space for something else.

spoffle · 31 Aug 2019 at 08:34

sadbuttrue said:
Most people run their apps fullscreen as fiddling around with window sizes all the time is a compromise and faff.

Instead of a nice fullscreen 16:10 view, we get a complete waste of horizontal and lack of vertical space on ultrawides like this:

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You can just drag to the left or right and Windows will automatically snap the window to either side at exactly half the screen's width.

There is literally zero faff or fuss. Just a flick of the mouse. You can even just do one window and it'll bring up a prompt that allows you to easily and quickly select another window to fill the second half.

Armageus · 31 Aug 2019 at 08:38

sadbuttrue said:
Most people run their apps fullscreen as fiddling around with window sizes all the time is a compromise and faff.

Complete faff? Windows key + arrow keys is all you need.

I've got two 2560x1440 screens at work which replaced two 1080p screens and two 1280x1024 screens. With the shortcut key above its easy to resize to e.g. half the width of a screen, to simulate a 1280 wide screen.

V F · 31 Aug 2019 at 14:42

sadbuttrue said:
Most people run their apps fullscreen as fiddling around with window sizes all the time is a compromise and faff.

Instead of a nice fullscreen 16:10 view, we get a complete waste of horizontal and lack of vertical space on ultrawides like this:

I nearly face palm when people do that. Only time I ever full screen is in Photoshop and such.