Incoming ultrawide, my first game(s) should be...

[Dirk Diggler]

Some lovely looking screens in that thread!

Remember, most of the images are in the Dropbox folder in the OP if you fancy some screensaver goodness for your new monitor.

Also, the Batman games are great for Ultrawide and will be cheap.

 

[Kelt]

Indeed!

Hour and a half of The Old Blood last night.

Ultrawide is amazing!

Yeh, I've just restarted New Order (never finished it first time round), smeggin' awesome!

 

[strumpusplunket]

Remember, most of the images are in the Dropbox folder in the OP if you fancy some screensaver goodness for your new monitor.

Also, the Batman games are great for Ultrawide and will be cheap.

I still have Arkham Knight to play. Wasn't that really badly reviewed on release? Has it been patched and improved any?

I like aquatic and spacey themes for my wallpapers. Currently have this:

Yeh, I've just restarted New Order (never finished it first time round), smeggin' awesome!

Yeah, having a blast!

 

[Dirk Diggler]

I still have Arkham Knight to play. Wasn't that really badly reviewed on release? Has it been patched and improved any?

It ran fine for me recently, although you may need to drop a few settings on your 980ti.

 

[strumpusplunket]

It ran fine for me recently, although you may need to drop a few settings on your 980ti.

Uh-oh... it's those words that usually trigger a splurge on a graphics card upgrade!

Guessing I'd need 1080Ti or 2070 to max most things at 3440x1440, though?

Well, it is a big step up from 1080p in terms of pixels to push, I guess...

 

[Dirk Diggler]

@strumpusplunket I find the 1080ti to compliment the screen brilliantly. I wouldn't show Nvidia any encouragement by spending money on a 20 series card, but obviously that's in the context of having owned a 1080ti since release, obviously you're in a slightly different situation.

I don't envy anyone looking to upgrade their GPU right now.

 

[strumpusplunket]

@strumpusplunket I find the 1080ti to compliment the screen brilliantly. I wouldn't show Nvidia any encouragement by spending money on a 20 series card, but obviously that's in the context of having owned a 1080ti since release, obviously you're in a slightly different situation.

I don't envy anyone looking to upgrade their GPU right now.

Yeah, prices are not good right now for anything better than my 980Ti, on the green side especially.

I recall managing a decent overclock on this card when I first got it, but I ended up never running it because it wasn't needed at 1080p. Might have to see how much extra performance I can eke out of it again.

I see the 2070s at around £450ish, which isn't that horrible factoring in what I could get selling the card I now have. The 1080Ti seems unfortunately still to be maintaining a high price in the second-hand market. I may just have to accept that the days of my having a £200 pound target and £250 maximum budget for graphics cards are long gone.

 

[midweek]

Yeah I bought a 1080 on release to go with my ultrawide. Kind of wishing I'd waited a bit and ponied up the extra for a 1080Ti.

 

[heartburnron]

Half Life 2 looks amazing at 3440x1440

 

[strumpusplunket]

Well, been pleasantly surprised with my 980ti's performance in the in-game benchmarks for the games I'm intending to play next.

Even at stock, I'm getting 63fps average in Shadow of War's benchmark with textures on high, everything else at ultra and TAA, and 65fps in Rise of the Tomb Raider with FXAA and everything but foliage on high.

That is better than I'd expected.

I've also been able to achieve a 20% overclock to boost clocks and a 300MHz memory overclock, which combine to give almost exactly a 14% increase in fps for both benchmarks (to 72fps and 75fps respectively).

I'm assuming (hoping) that these bench scores are reflective of what I can expect in actual gameplay?

And also hoping that Assassin's Creed: Origins isn't too much more demanding than these two! If that's okay at fairly high settings too, any graphics upgrade can wait for a few months at least.

And, whoah, the benchmarks looked gorgeous at 3440x1440 on this screen! The sharpness, the colours, the vision-filling aspect ratio... I had been languishing on a 1080p TN monitor for far too long!

 

[Distracted]

Well, been pleasantly surprised with my 980ti's performance in the in-game benchmarks for the games I'm intending to play next.

Even at stock, I'm getting 63fps average in Shadow of War's benchmark with textures on high, everything else at ultra and TAA, and 65fps in Rise of the Tomb Raider with FXAA and everything but foliage on high.

That is better than I'd expected.

I've also been able to achieve a 20% overclock to boost clocks and a 300MHz memory overclock, which combine to give almost exactly a 14% increase in fps for both benchmarks (to 72fps and 75fps respectively).

I'm assuming (hoping) that these bench scores are reflective of what I can expect in actual gameplay?

And also hoping that Assassin's Creed: Origins isn't too much more demanding than these two! If that's okay at fairly high settings too, any graphics upgrade can wait for a few months at least.

And, whoah, the benchmarks looked gorgeous at 3440x1440 on this screen! The sharpness, the colours, the vision-filling aspect ratio... I had been languishing on a 1080p TN monitor for far too long!

From what I've seen, Origins has occasional frame rate drops no matter what hardware you use. This seems to be more to do with how it was made than the hardware in question.

Perhaps that has changed now with patches, but if not, don't be surprised if you see fps drops in ac.