***21.9 Ultrawide Thread***
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Soldato
I'm kicking myself for not grabbing the Phillips at £499 
, so badly want a 21:9 curved screen but not prepared to pay over £500.
, so badly want a 21:9 curved screen but not prepared to pay over £500.There is a big difference between 3440x1440 and 2560x1080 at 34". So Gsync is pointless (other thread) and also anything above 1080p is pointless as well???
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Did you even bother to read my post "entirely" or the post that I linked to?
The guy has a 3440x1440 34" screen.... and there are plenty of others who have said the same... Understand how PPI and viewing distance works before commenting please.
Also, link me to the post where I said "gsync was pointless" as well.
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Ok well I am not going to argue with you but you did just say both of those things pretty much. I understand PPI etc. and most people sit quite close to monitors, but saying there is "not much, if any" difference is really not true at any remotely normal viewing distance. You would have to be meters away for it to not be noticeable.
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If you read my posts entirely you will see that there is more to it than just "no difference at all, it is pointless"
And as the link shows as well as posts like mrk's:
There are plenty of people with 34" 21.9 monitors who find the same.
Of course there will be a difference, however, unless you are sitting pretty close (and with a 34" 21.9 screen, I would like to think people are sitting a suitable distance away from them to really appreciate the benefit of these 34" 21.9 screens), you are going to be hard pressed to notice a difference in media consumption, like I said earlier, with any text content, you most definitely will notice the difference though.
The further you move back from the display, the sharper/clearer it will look, I have a few really crap old quality TV shows and sitting at my normal distance (about an arms length away), they look awful and pixelated but as you get further back (about 2 arms length away), they begin to look a lot clearer and better.
As for the gsync, I have said that g/free sync are great techs, however, it is not the silver bullet that some make it out to be as low FPS (<50fps) is still low FPS, yes, it is better to have g/free sync at those low FPS than no g/free sync but if people are wanting to get the full benefit of 144HZ, they need to be pushing those FPS too. Most of my posts in that thread are more about the ones saying that 60HZ and no sync tech are useless when that simply isn't true "if" people take the time to tweak and test some settings, FPS limiters and vsync options out.
And as the link shows as well as posts like mrk's:
There are plenty of people with 34" 21.9 monitors who find the same.
Of course there will be a difference, however, unless you are sitting pretty close (and with a 34" 21.9 screen, I would like to think people are sitting a suitable distance away from them to really appreciate the benefit of these 34" 21.9 screens), you are going to be hard pressed to notice a difference in media consumption, like I said earlier, with any text content, you most definitely will notice the difference though.
The further you move back from the display, the sharper/clearer it will look, I have a few really crap old quality TV shows and sitting at my normal distance (about an arms length away), they look awful and pixelated but as you get further back (about 2 arms length away), they begin to look a lot clearer and better.
As for the gsync, I have said that g/free sync are great techs, however, it is not the silver bullet that some make it out to be as low FPS (<50fps) is still low FPS, yes, it is better to have g/free sync at those low FPS than no g/free sync but if people are wanting to get the full benefit of 144HZ, they need to be pushing those FPS too. Most of my posts in that thread are more about the ones saying that 60HZ and no sync tech are useless when that simply isn't true "if" people take the time to tweak and test some settings, FPS limiters and vsync options out.
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Well yes, I am not sure who would think that.
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Soldato
I tried running 2560x1080 on a 3440x1440 monitor, its not unplayable but it just looks blurry and not very good, I would rather lower the settings than play at 2560x1080, not unplayable if you have no other option but definitely a lot worse than 3440x1440.
Man of Honour
You'll get pillarboxes as per the standard with all 16:9 content. It will feel as if you are watching the content on a 16:9 monitor.
Man of Honour
No, it means pillarboxes
Example:
4K content will be scaled down by the monitor's built in scaler. It will be sharp and clear of course, just scaled down.
you can control that in your GPUs control panel incase your monitor doesnt support it. You can ask it to keep aspect ration, to keep original size or to zoom to the entire monitor so you should have no worries in this regard.
Man of Honour
You will get black letterboxes left and right, just like how the diagram above shows. You will not get letterboxes top and bottom on standard movie or TV content. You will if someone has incorrectly authored a video with forced letterboxes and the content is in 21:9 (films are largely all at this aspect ratio anyway, TV shows are always 16:9).
Soldato
The original F.E.A.R from 2005 supports ultra wide natively!! Here it is in all it's 3440x1440p glory:
Thinking of getting a super wide screen but concerned that a couple of older classic games i still play will support it. I hate borders!! Google does not seem to have any answers..
Counterstrike 1.6 on steam
C&C Generals/Zero Hour
Anyone with a super wide happened to have these games installed and could give it a whirl and report back?
Would be a great help before i go and drop a grand on one of these
Counterstrike 1.6 on steam
C&C Generals/Zero Hour
Anyone with a super wide happened to have these games installed and could give it a whirl and report back?
Would be a great help before i go and drop a grand on one of these
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Thinking of getting a super wide screen but concerned that a couple of older classic games i still play will support it. I hate borders!! Google does not seem to have any answers..
Counterstrike 1.6 on steam
C&C Generals/Zero Hour
Anyone with a super wide happened to have these games installed and could give it a whirl and report back?
Would be a great help before i go and drop a grand on one of these
Considering the age of the games I'd say not tbh. If you hate borders and love classic games then stick with 16:9, maybe a nice 32"?