Hey guys. Somewhat wary to step in here as a new forum member with all you very experienced monitor gurus, but anyway,hi! And for what its worth, here are my thoughts:
Got my 34UC97 on Weds, but it took til now to get authorized for this forum
. I'm really very pleased. A bit of bleed top left and right, but you only notice it if you are looking. Not bad at all. Nothing on the bottom.Response times/lag when gaming are great as far as I can see. I was a bit concerned I would notice some issues, but not at all.
The curve is great. Personally I think curved TVs are nonsense at <70", maybe less than 100" - more downside than up, unless you always watch TV on your own! But for a PC monitor it really comes into its own. I am not using this for "professional" photo editing, if I did I might feel different, but right now, for me, I suspect if there was any issue it would just take a short while to adapt. We are used to the distortions sitting so close to a flat monitor and we compensate without knowing it. In a short time we will adapt to this shape, that is quite possibly less distorting once we are used to it.
This seems the sweet spot resolution wise, especially if you intend to use for a fair bit of gaming. Gaming aside, as others have said, 4K still has scaling issues in Windows; Hopefully Windows 10 will fix that. I guess some can live with that if you are doing professional high res work, but for most it's a problem. When it comes to gaming, 4K/UHD is just too taxing at the moment with any single card and probably will be for another 2 years. With an EVGA GTX780 SC the 34UC97 is pretty fine with most current generation games (980 would be even better). It will be totally sorted once the 20/16nm GPUs come out next Spring.
What's more if I was going "UHD", 4K is not really high enough res for a screen of this width.
When I go UHD I want retinal and for that I really need 5K which means nearly 3 times the pixels of this beast!! And if you wanted 120Hz that would be 5.5 times the pixels per second. That is some years off being comfortable for
any card. So I expect to hang onto this for a good few years until some 10nm GPU allows me to have the perfect, butter smooth, ultimate resolution, "last monitor I will ever need"! And by then it may be OLED too
A couple of questions for everyone:
1. What do you think DP 1.2 mode actually does? Mine seems very happy doing 60Hz 3440x1440 without that enabled and if I do enable it I get weird horizontal noise lines on the screen, like static, when the PC comes out of sleep. I have to turn the monitor on and off to get rid of them. It is possibly an Nvidia driver issue, but right now I cannot see the point of enabling DP1.2, as all seems perfect with it off.
2. I saw the discussion on screen splitting. Has no one tried the supplied LG "Screen Split" tool. Its probably a little less fancy than some of the chargeable ones but it seems to be good enough for my needs - You can choose between 2-way, 3-way and 4-way split and you can resize the splits to suit, so a 4-way split, for example, could have equal sizes, or you could move the horizontal and vertical split lines up or down to give you 1 or 2 much larger "windows" and 2 or 3 much smaller ones. Apps dragged over one of the split areas automatically "snap" to fill them. Seems to work well.
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