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

Rofflay said:
Name one time Lg let people do this DIY without RMA? Hell look at the 29EA93-P variant with no one even knowing where the magical 1.25 firmware came from or no one at LG to confirm apart from one glowing Aandtech review that claimed input lag got more than halved in one revision down to 5ms. That was a bit of a fiasco for people and LG have discontinued that model now too so god knows if they overclock anymore.


And if you read the new freesync FAQ it states they are readying with manufactuers to get adaptive sync compatible monitors out in six to twelve months from a week or two ago when it got finalzed so this is never going to happen. What would happen is Dell come out in 6 months time with thier version with fixed bugs and freesync and everyone else gets screwed. Im tempted to order the AOC 29" and calibrate the sucker and run overdrive high 75hz for another year now. I really get angry at LG for being such dimwits they ruined this for me too with zero overclocking potential. Such a shame its a glorious beast.


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I can say with 99% certainty the Dell won't overclock either.

Also, at least there's the possibility of LG releasing user-installable firmware updates. Dell doesn't even do that. You have to ship the monitor back to them and they usually replace it with a refurbished one. There was a lot of outrage on their support forum on this with the UP3214Q which initially shipped with a bugged firmware. So I'm not too concerned about the Dell being better - they've gone downhill lately in my opinion. Only advantage to their products is the 3 year warranty.

Not saying LG is that great either, I just don't expect anything impressive from Dell given the recent track record.
 
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This refresh rate in games potential issue is bothering me. mrk and any other users - can you give us some concrete info on this please?

Either use fraps to get a visual confirmation, or if that doesn't work use bandicam and its FPS feature. I use this now all the time and it's miles better. Works with everything I throw at it.

Bandicam
 
x3sphere said:
I can say with 99% certainty the Dell won't overclock either.

Also, at least there's the possibility of LG releasing user-installable firmware updates. Dell doesn't even do that. You have to ship the monitor back to them and they usually replace it with a refurbished one. There was a lot of outrage on their support forum on this with the UP3214Q which initially shipped with a bugged firmware. So I'm not too concerned about the Dell being better - they've gone downhill lately in my opinion. Only advantage to their products is the 3 year warranty.

Not saying LG is that great either, I just don't expect anything impressive from Dell given the recent track record.
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The only reason I consider them first is just because of the return policy. Absolutely excellent for someone as picky as me, so as long as I keep returning in the first 3 0days I keep getting new ones until there's no pixel/bleed issues. :D
 
Tephnos said:
Based on videos I have seen, it should!

I too want to play Oblivion/Skyrim fully modded on this thing! I'm just giving it a couple of months to see whether:

a) The issues presented in this thread will be fixed with a firmware update (plus perhaps the inclusion of ATIs vsync if the DP port is 1.2a)
b) DELL come up with a contender that has all the features of the LG including internal LUT.
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Yeah I'm prepared to wait too, but not that long. I'm planning a new rig for June with devils canyon, z97 mobo and this screen so hopefully issues get sorted sooner rather than later!

Never been a fan of the dell screens looking wise, although appreciate that the screen quality tends to be good, it's just me being fickle about what the bezel and stand look like! LG's 34um95 looks classy IMO.
 
Ok been on DisplayPort 1.2 for a few hours now and only seen 2 flickers in Windows. In games like Grid 2 that switched to 50Hz with Vsync on when not using DisplayPort 1.2 still switches to 50Hz.

I've been watching some UHD trailers on Youtube and have noticed that some are anamorphic BUT when maximised their letterboxes are a part of the video itself so you get a video rectabgle in the middle with boxes on all sides. Other trailers are done properly and will fill the whole screen which is great.

Guardians of the Galaxy has a mix of both, one trailer was 21:9, the other was a botch job:

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The new X-Men trailer is glorious in UHD:

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I hope we start to see new trailers fully exploit 21:9 by being made properly like the above.
 
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Yeah the camera will pick up some glare from light sources off the panel itself, something your eyes won't really notice sat in front but black levels seem fine to me. No better or worse than my previous screen (U2713HM).

On this link: http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/black.php

I can see all but 2 shades of black/grey easily. The 2nd square you need to focus on it but it is visible once you do, the 1st square is hard to differentiate. I have my brightness low though which does affect this but not enough to matter in my workflows.
 
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I think this monitor is really the only expensive thing on my workstation :p

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I've installed the latest WHQL nVidia drivers and removed the BETA ones I was using. Not seen any flickers yet using DisplayPort 1.2...
 
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mrk said:
I think this monitor is really the only expensive thing on my workstation :p

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I've installed the latest WHQL nVidia drivers and removed the BETA ones I was using. Not seen any flickers yet using DisplayPort 1.2...
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Ooh, that's a good sign. Would rather it was Nvidia's incompetence than an LG manufacturing fault. I think I'm using a beta driver, so will have to downgrade.

And with those trailers, it seems like 21:9 support is really gaining traction.
Getting excited for next week!
 
kael13 said:
Ooh, that's a good sign. Would rather it was Nvidia's incompetence than an LG manufacturing fault. I think I'm using a beta driver, so will have to downgrade.

And with those trailers, it seems like 21:9 support is really gaining traction.
Getting excited for next week!
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JP has an AMD card though and still got flickering, perhaps there's a common thing between the two vendors though at a drive level I don't know! I've been out all afternoon so haven't use the screen that much today but sat here now and just doing stuff I've still not seen a flicker. I also notice that now with these drivers and after a reboot the True Color Finder software, when you exit it, the screen doesn't briefly switch between calibration off then on again. I initially thought this was just normal behaviour of the calibration and the software interfacing with the LUT on the monitor but as it's not doing that any more I guess there was a driver thing going on before with those BETAs.

Finally, I would like to wet some more of your appetites. These are 1080P BluRays scaled to 3440x1440 in MPC-BE. I've not enabled any sharpening in the player.

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I must say that even though I've got a 56" LG HDTV I'm actually enjoying movie content on this more because of the lack of letterboxing and the closer proximity to the screen as a workstation display.

When 4k cinema TVs are common place and well supported by content vendors I'll definitely be looking to change normal HDTV with one of those.
 
Robbie, those pics look a.w.e.s.o.m.e. !!

Is it possible to adjust the res of TV shows too to eliminate the black bars? It's the only thing holding me back on a purchase so far (and more info about the flickering, but I'd take a risk with that as I'm considering the 34UM65)

Thanks

edit - Just seen your post on Hardforum that said you manually readjust the pic. I know it's only a couple of secs but just wondering if their's a way around doing that every time
 
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JediFragger said:
Robbie, those pics look a.w.e.s.o.m.e. !!

Is it possible to adjust the res of TV shows too to eliminate the black bars? It's the only thing holding me back on a purchase so far (and more info about the flickering, but I'd take a risk with that as I'm considering the 34UM65)

Thanks

edit - Just seen your post on Hardforum that said you manually readjust the pic. I know it's only a couple of secs but just wondering if their's a way around doing that every time
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You can adjust TV shows yup if your player supports zooming/panning. I use MPC-BE so the numberpad can be used to scale the video inside the maximised player window so the show fills the whole screen. you lose some show content top and bottom but it's not too much. this way you're not stretching anything so it all looks good.

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For TV shows only that is of course, yeah it takes a second or two, just hold the numpad button "9" to scale up. With movies like hwat I've posted above they naturally fill the whole screen due to them being the correct aspect ratio in the first place.
 
Ok, thanks for the info Robbie I appreciate it. Any chance you could possibly take a pic of the desktop with a 2650*1080 resolution? I know it sounds odd, but I just want to see how everything scales in comparison to my 30" (windows taskbar etc)

And could you possibly switch the taskbar to the bottom? apologies if I'm asking a lot, you can tell me to **** off I won't mind ;)
 
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JediFragger said:
Ok, thanks for the info Robbie I appreciate it. Any chance you could possibly take a pic of the desktop with a 2650*1080 resolution? I know it sounds odd, but I just want to see how everything scales in comparison to my 30" (windows taskbar etc)

And could you possibly switch the taskbar to the bottom? apologies if I'm asking a lot, you can tell me to **** off I won't mind ;)
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Taskbar at the bottom?!?! What madness is this :mad:


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2560x1080:
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Surprisingly fine apart from icons and text looking like they're a size too big for the monitor - You could easily game at that res and offset any high demands for newer titles and GFX cards and then ramp up the visual settings like FSAA.
 
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