21.9 Ultrawide Thread

Jock7 · 4 Feb 2017 at 09:11

Good Morning,

I have the ASUS PG348Q and have had for at least six months. No problems whatsoever and highly delighted with it. A wee bit of bleed but nothing major. The picture quality and higher resolutions are brilliant.

Nexus18 · 4 Feb 2017 at 09:53

Macro said:
It didn't on release but has had 21:9 for some time now

It's not proper 21.9, it is just cropped/zoomed in. Developers won't implement it properly as they think it is too much of an advantage over 16.9.

Rezident · 4 Feb 2017 at 11:50

mods1965 said:
I went from Samsung 1080P 60Hz to the Samsung C34F791 and am really enjoying it so far. Stock R9 290 can run it, but I have to select FreeSync standard or ultimate modes depending on game. When Vega is released, I expect standard mode will be fine for everything. When you set in front of the screen, you do not really see the curve and its does indeed make for an immersive game experience because you do not notice the screen edges as you do with 16:9. I can see why competitive FPS is best at 16:9, because you have to turn your head from side to side to take in the environment.
I have no dead pixels or back light bleed that I can see, plus colours are better then my old TN panel.

That Samsung C34F791 looks great actually. How is it for fast games? Is 4ms fast enough for gaming these days?

Dicehunter · 4 Feb 2017 at 11:56

Rezident said:
That Samsung C34F791 looks great actually. How is it for fast games? Is 4ms fast enough for gaming these days?

Unless you have super human vision and responses then 4Ms is plenty enough.

bigmac121 · 4 Feb 2017 at 14:47

bigmac121 said:
I have joined the the club using a lg 34uc98-w 34.
This is a great monitor. Moved from my HB280HK to replace with this.

BUT i have oTWO problems. HDCP keeps on saying the it is not supported

After a reboot windows tells me it is using a custom scale factor is set. I have to log out the back in.

Also I cannot left click to open files, progs, etc I have to right click. Latest drivers install.

OK problem has been resolved.

Display port was turned off in monitor.
It was the LG software causing the custom scale issue and the left clicking,

mods1965 · 4 Feb 2017 at 18:01

I am continually surprised at the response time with the C34F791 and how good FreeSync has been. Overwatch on Ultimate mode(48-100Hz)gives me approx 60FPS and very smooth. SWBF is the same on Ultimate.
I re-subed to WOW Legion for a month and have to run that at Standard mode (80-100Hz) as Ultimate produces flicker. However, as this game is more about the CPU, it runs super smooth over 90FPS.
After the month, I am going to load up Wolfenstein New Blood which would tear on my 1080P TN 2MS, to see what FreeSync brings.
Unlike GSYNC monitors, you have to pick and choose your games with this one, as Ultimate mode does cause flicker in certain games, so until Vega, you have to live with constant changing of settings. For me this is no issue and I just cannot believe how a single stock R9 290 can run this resolution. That is a massive credit to AMD for its driver improvements and FreeSync.

Rezident · 5 Feb 2017 at 10:08

Wow this 34" Samsung cf791 is getting amazing reviews. For gaming it looks like the best I've seen so far. This could be the one.

bobbarley · 5 Feb 2017 at 10:11

I've been so disappointed with the lack of game support for 21:9 resolutions

Nexus18 · 5 Feb 2017 at 10:54

bobbarley said:
I've been so disappointed with the lack of game support for 21:9 resolutions

What games?

For the games that don't have official support, have you tried googling for a fix or using flawless wide-screen?

oldestgregg · 5 Feb 2017 at 13:28

bobbarley said:
I've been so disappointed with the lack of game support for 21:9 resolutions

With Overwatch and Resi 7 being the only games Ive played in the last 12 month that have not supported it (even MGSV and Dark Souls were fixable), I'm curious to know what games you speak of?

Rezident · 5 Feb 2017 at 14:15

The Samsung cf791 has a 100Hz refresh rate. I'm currently on 144Hz which is great. Will 100Hz be worse for gaming? Considering you're not going to get 144 FPS in new games anyway?

bobbarley · 5 Feb 2017 at 20:12

oldestgregg said:
With Overwatch and Resi 7 being the only games Ive played in the last 12 month that have not supported it (even MGSV and Dark Souls were fixable), I'm curious to know what games you speak of?

I play a lot of Fallout 4, which isn't supported.

tyler_jrb · 5 Feb 2017 at 20:29

bobbarley said:
I play a lot of Fallout 4, which isn't supported.

Not difficult to mod it in though.

http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/274/?

Also easy to then modify the scopes to suit 21:9 as well.

oldestgregg · 5 Feb 2017 at 20:57

bobbarley said:
I play a lot of Fallout 4, which isn't supported.

Took me less than 5 minutes to get it working perfectly. MGSV and Dark souls 3 were not supported either but were just as easy to get running in 21.9

bobbarley · 5 Feb 2017 at 21:57

Shouldn't have to mod it, it should just be supported in the first place.

Nexus18 · 5 Feb 2017 at 22:30

bobbarley said:
Shouldn't have to mod it, it should just be supported in the first place.

I completely agree that it should "officially" be there from day 1 especially for new upcoming games.

If some guy in his free time can find/create a fix within a few days/week of release then a "team" of developers working on the game should be able to implement 21.9 before the game is even released, however, if you can't be bothered to to take 5-10 minutes at most to fix/add 21.9 support... you are better of returning the 21.9 monitor and going back to a 16.9 screen.

At the end of the day, getting 21.9 working is incredibly easy. I spend more time having to faff about with broken releases just to get them running acceptably whilst still looking good and avoiding bugs.

tyler_jrb · 6 Feb 2017 at 15:49

True certainly it should but as with anything with bethesda. They are lazy and rely on the modders to sort it. 21:9 and other things such as SLI/crossfire on release of many of their games. As well as generally poor performance, bugs, optimisations.

Even now with FO4, poor performance, poor visuals, crashes and bugs, poor SLI wise as well.

meh? · 9 Feb 2017 at 10:57

I'm so unsure which monitor to get :-(

. I've had a nice bonus at work and along with some spare cash I've managed to put £1000 a side for a new monitor. I currently have a BenQ XL2720Z for games and for movies / Netflix etc I use a Sony 43w805c. I basically want to do away with the TV and monitor and just have one nice ultrawide.

I have an nvidia graphics card so my options are either the X34A or the PG348Q. Is there any difference between the two? I only really play battlefield and cs:go, will the monitors be ok?

I am leaning more towards the PG348Q but the stand kinda puts me off. I would mount it on a monitor arm but my desk would need to be modified as it's a ikea malm.

Thanks for the help :-D

easyrider · 9 Feb 2017 at 11:00

meh?;30486165 said:
I'm so unsure which monitor to get . I've had a nice bonus at work and along with some spare cash I've managed to put £1000 a side for a new monitor. I currently have a BenQ XL2720Z for games and for movies / Netflix etc I use a Sony 43w805c. I basically want to do away with the TV and monitor and just have one nice ultrawide.

I have an nvidia graphics card so my options are either the X34A or the PG348Q. Is there any difference between the two? I only really play battlefield and cs:go, will the monitors be ok?

I am leaning more towards the PG348Q but the stand kinda puts me off. I would mount it on a monitor arm but my desk would need to be modified as it's a ikea malm.

Thanks for the help

My X34 on monitor arm for reference.

meh? · 9 Feb 2017 at 11:12

Which arm is that?

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