Asus SonicMaster MX299Q 29" Ultra Widescreen Ultra

Pisto1981 · 16 May 2014 at 08:55

Morning,

I'm a little concerned with this monitor and gaming.

I have a I7 - Z87 MB - 8gb RAM. I purchased a GTX780ti and the monitor at the same time. Everything was fine. BF4 looked amazing on ultra

Then i decided to play Diablo 3 ROS. After getting the Res sorted i joined a public match. The lag i was getting made the game unplayable. ive tried even playing the game at lowest setting (ludicrous as I have a 780ti) and it didnt help at all.

So after doing a little research on the monitor i found that these ultra wide screens have a thing called input lag. Some monitors are between 30-70ms which generally isnt advertised in the spec.

Could this be whats causing my lag? Or could it be something else?
Anyone else experienced this with similar monitor?

AWPC · 16 May 2014 at 10:28

The monitor has a gaming mode setting in the menus if you can navigate them the buttons are way too sensitive look for that & disable (another reason I DSRed this monitor).

Martini1991 · 16 May 2014 at 10:30

I saw a review of this, and it had very good input lag?
I use one, and I've never really seen anything I'd consider lag due to the monitor.

Pisto1981 · 16 May 2014 at 10:33

Thanks for this. Turns out it might be because the game is only optimized for 1 core!!!

I will do as recommended and see if it helps.

Martini1991 · 16 May 2014 at 13:12

I'm not sure what game mode he's referring to, I couldn't see one on mine?
All I saw for gaming was the colour mode?

Undesirable · 16 May 2014 at 14:55

Surely the lag would be more noticeable in a FPS than a scrolling ARPG? If it's different from one game to the other, then it can't be the monitor.

Stuen4y · 16 May 2014 at 16:55

If nothing helps I would also try playing on FullHD with black strips on the side of the picture. It might be a strange incompatibility with the particular aspect ratio.

Rofflay · 17 May 2014 at 09:52

non native res scaling bugs perhaps? did you say bf4 worked fine?

Pisto1981 · 18 May 2014 at 10:30

Hi, Really looking for some advice.

Recently i brought a 780ti with Seasonic M12II EVO Edition 750W '80 Plus Bronze' Fully Modular Power Supply. Since installing both i found a massive drop in fps in Diablo 3. Looking into this further i found that others were having issues with same card. i decided to plug my old 560ti in so i could play. However, i still experienced massive lag. ive tried other games and my system just doesnt seem to be running right.

So my question, with the psu being the only thing thats now new in my machine and i'm still having the issues, could i have not connected it up correctly? i'm doubtful this is the case as surely if it wasnt connected correctly it just wouldn't work or would cut out when used?

Stuen4y · 18 May 2014 at 12:50

Did you try changing the resolution on Diablo? Did you try any other games? It can be a total driver screw-up when you changed the cards. I would reinstall and be sure the problem is not software before I test/swap any other hardware. I doubt a brand new Seasonic PSU will be the problem in a system in which it will work at ~50% utilisation at most. You can always measure the output voltages at the 12V and 5V lines with a multimeter during stress but I guess it will not show anything disturbing.