LG to Introduce 34-inch IPS 21:9 UltraWide (Model UM95) monitor

Why is modvr needed? I tried it before and just prefer as many apps being 64bit as possible and no visual quality or performance difference. Default built in filters use dxva anyway which is what you want.

I had a GTX 780 and ran games at max no problem. I have a 290X now and games run no different even with an extra GB of VRam. In some games it will come in handy but not the majority I guess.
 
I noticed a huge difference with 1080p videos... especially with the image doubling settings on this monitor... If you turn them up too high though you start to get some pretty bad slowdown but if you get them right the difference in clarity is superb.

Nexus...did you alter any settings yourself?

In the image double settings I ticked the quadruple luma resolution and put it up to 64 neurons and I cant notice any slowdown so im keeping that. If I double chroma too though I get some lag so ill keep it at that.
 
mrk said:
Why is modvr needed? I tried it before and just prefer as many apps being 64bit as possible and no visual quality or performance difference. Default built in filters use dxva anyway which is what you want.

I had a GTX 780 and ran games at max no problem. I have a 290X now and games run no different even with an extra GB of VRam. In some games it will come in handy but not the majority I guess.
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Mainly for better quality & performance.

No need to mess about with filters since MPC now uses the best ones by default (LAV)

And yup, don't really need the VRAM atm but I imagine with the next lot of next gen games over the next year or two, it could be rather handy (even more so with the res. of this 34" monitor), watch dogs, bf 4 and wolfenstein use 3+GB of VRAM for me and this is only with a 2560x1080 res.

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Thanks for that! Iv done everything in the guide. The only thing I couldn't get working for the subtitles part as I kept getting some sort of error but im not too bothered about subtitles lol.
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Yeah I haven't bothered with a few of the steps such as reclock, subtitles and bitstreaming stuff, only MPC and madvr matters for me. I haven't touched the refresh rate options either.

Matson said:
I noticed a huge difference with 1080p videos... especially with the image doubling settings on this monitor... If you turn them up too high though you start to get some pretty bad slowdown but if you get them right the difference in clarity is superb.

Nexus...did you alter any settings yourself?

In the image double settings I ticked the quadruple luma resolution and put it up to 64 neurons and I cant notice any slowdown so im keeping that. If I double chroma too though I get some lag so ill keep it at that.
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I have just set what that guy recommended, not using anything different. And yup the image doubling is great for 720P content!
 
should I bother with installing the LAV filters? I didn't bother since I already have a lot of filters on here so thought there wouldn't be much point.
 
My GTX 780Ti struggles in places & stutters when upscaling some bitrate heavy blurays/hd-dvd's optical media @ 2560x1080 so I can imagine 1440 needs something faster :eek:
 
The UM95 looks fantastic but it is a fair old wedge to spend on a monitor. I would be upgrading from a Dell 2407 FPW which I have had for about 6 years or so. Would an I7 4770 and a GTX 680 be enough to power it?
 
Matson said:
should I bother with installing the LAV filters? I didn't bother since I already have a lot of filters on here so thought there wouldn't be much point.
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Don't need to, MPC has been using them as the default filters for some time now :cool:

All you really need to dll/install is madvr, mpc 32 bit (HC or BE).
 
Still having to use VLC lol. With that I get the option for A52 over SPDIF for 5.1 but no matter what I try in media player classic I cant get 5.1 to passthrough my surround system and output...it just putputs in stereo.
 
Wait so you guys are double scaling HD content to beyond their native resolution? Why? Why not just leave the native display scaling handle scaling?

I found when upscaling movie content this way that yes they looked sharper but at the same time this brings about artefacts which I noticed more. Upscaling is fine if you don't care about the downsides do doing this (not to mention the extra processing time needed) but for me I prefer native unfiltered scaling and my photos earlier in this thread show just how sharp and rich in general detail it is.

For that reason, based on my own experience, I would never recommend people go and hurt some performance and gain artefacts for the sake of a little sharper picture.
 
mrk said:
Wait so you guys are double scaling HD content to beyond their native resolution? Why? Why not just leave the native display scaling handle scaling?

I found when upscaling movie content this way that yes they looked sharper but at the same time this brings about artefacts which I noticed more. Upscaling is fine if you don't care about the downsides do doing this (not to mention the extra processing time needed) but for me I prefer native unfiltered scaling and my photos earlier in this thread show just how sharp and rich in general detail it is.

For that reason, based on my own experience, I would never recommend people go and hurt some performance and gain artefacts for the sake of a little sharper picture.
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Because the maker of madvr (madshi) says so!!! :p

Not 100% sure on all of the image upscaling stuff etc. myself, just from reading that thread etc. people that want the very best quality seem to use those settings.

What you said about artifacting is correct, it is creating false detail but as you can see in the link below, it does a better job.

It will also come down to the source of the encode. Internal encodes will always look better than your scene releases. The main benefit is for 720P content though.

Link below that explains the stuff far better than what I can

http://www.avsforum.com/forum/26-ho...-htpc-madvr-svp-xbmc-mediabrowser-jriver.html

Personally I haven't had any issues with the performance using the recommended settings.

Matson said:
Still having to use VLC lol. With that I get the option for A52 over SPDIF for 5.1 but no matter what I try in media player classic I cant get 5.1 to passthrough my surround system and output...it just putputs in stereo.
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Not too sure about sound stuff in MPC, I just use stereo speakers, no DAC, SPDIF connection or anything else so have never had to mess around with audio settings :p
 
There is always false detail when you are scaling from a non-native resolution. The question isnt weather to scale or not, because you dont have a choice unless you're using a CRT, the question is what hardware/software do you want to do that scaling. the display will have an adequate scaler built in. GPUs are pretty good at it these days as well, but a software solution like MadVR always has the potential to be better than the either of them.

If you have the processing power, which most people do these days, then i say go for it. If you are going to spend £800 on a display and watch a lot of non-native content on it, then why wouldnt you want the best scaler configuration?
 
Because it doesn't have 64bit software support being one of the reasons!

I don't want to support anything these days where there is a 64bit version but the addon maker chooses to only support the 32bit version. We should be actively encouraging 64bit support in everything.

Like I said before. The content I watch that's in 1080P, when scaled up by the display looks tack sharp anyway and my photos give an example of that, even remastered movies dating back decades). If I'm watching 720P content like a TV show then obviously it's not as sharp as 1080 but it's still excellent and doesn't have artefact bugs..
 
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Arma II/Arma III + mods look great on this monitor, though run a little leggy (ie 25-30fps) in towns etc. This is on an i5 3570K @ 4.3 + Inno 780Ti + 16Gb ram with games running off an SSD. SLi would probably help though with it being Arma engines a 10ghz cpu would be of more benefit :D

Photos look great. I'll be using this more for editing rather than my mac book, though I could do to borrow a colour calibrator from work to, er, calibrate it.

There's a little IPS bleed bottom left/bottom right corners but only really noticable when gaming and it's a dark background in game (eg DayZ with nvgs on etc).
 
Lol im back on my benQ 144hz TN panel now and the difference in colours is striking.
Im definatly happy giving up 144hz for the much better quality picture, especially since I calibrated mine properly.
The same desktop background looks washed out now compared to the LG.
 
To be honest mrk, there's no advantage to a 64 bit version of MPC at all, hence why there's no madVR for x64 and so on. If you're a dev you're not going to waste time making an x64 version when there's no benefit except for appeasing people who want it to feel good.
 
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