** POTENTIALLY THE BEST GAMING MONITORS YET!! ** Acer 34" Ultra-wides

bishi said:
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/acer_predator_x34.htm Review just makes it sounds like game modes are basically the 3 user presets.

Maybe you are confusing it with the Z35? Apparently on that one you need to run it in the first game mode to use the 200hz overclock
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game modes on both monitors are just saveable preset modes, nothing more. you can use 100Hz on the X34 and 200Hz on the Z35 (Assuming your system supports them properly) just staying in the standard preset mode, or any of the others if you want.
 
So!

Ive had a go on Battlefront and that looks pretty good. Tried a few other games and they are all a lot smoother @100hz and Gsync enabled ,although Im unsure which I now feel the benefit of the most having Moved from a 1400p 60hz

The fish eye I was worried about on desktop is non existent for me,sitting right in fron tof it at arms length. How do I go about FOV settings now? On my 27" 16:9 I liked 90 but battlefront had quite the fish eye effect. Maybe its because its wider I just notice it more and it was also like that on my old monitor
 
Loving the screen so far. Only games I haven't been able to run in 3440x1440 are State of Decay and Tales From The Borderlands. Anyone had any joy with those?
 
oldestgregg said:
So!

Ive had a go on Battlefront and that looks pretty good. Tried a few other games and they are all a lot smoother @100hz and Gsync enabled ,although Im unsure which I now feel the benefit of the most having Moved from a 1400p 60hz

The fish eye I was worried about on desktop is non existent for me,sitting right in fron tof it at arms length. How do I go about FOV settings now? On my 27" 16:9 I liked 90 but battlefront had quite the fish eye effect. Maybe its because its wider I just notice it more and it was also like that on my old monitor
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What's the FOV default settings on the Acer X34? You seem to like it.
 
Simon Belmont said:
What's the FOV default settings on the Acer X34? You seem to like it.
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Couldnt tell you Simon but every game Ive tried so far has looked spot on. Just had 30 minutes on the latest Ass creed and Batman AK now runs smooth as butter even with everything turned on. The more games I play the more I think I wont be going back now. The only game Ive noticed stretching round the edges was SWBF but I knocked the FOV down to 85 and it looks fine. Everything has looked as it should,albeit a bit more demanding ;)
 
oldestgregg said:
Couldnt tell you Simon but every game Ive tried so far has looked spot on. Just had 30 minutes on the latest Ass creed and Batman AK now runs smooth as butter even with everything turned on. The more games I play the more I think I wont be going back now. The only game Ive noticed stretching round the edges was SWBF but I knocked the FOV down to 85 and it looks fine. Everything has looked as it should,albeit a bit more demanding ;)
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Awesome mate. I could get this monitor right now. I just have enough, but if I do I wont have enough for pascal. While I really, really want a G-Sync Ultrawide I would rather a new Pascal. I just don't know wehn pascal's releasing? If it comes this spring or early summer I want to be ready for it. My Asus ROG Swift is fine atm.

I'm a bit jealous. Enjoy your new toy mate :)
 
oldestgregg said:
I think I fell down the old "only negative comments on the internets" rabbithole. I found a nice PC Gamer article last night which lists 4 programs that widescreen fix and people seem to think that between them,they cover a vast majority of games. They were :-

Flawless widescreen
Windowed Borderless Gaming
DIY Widescreen
Widescreen Fixer


Apparantly there is also a solution now via Nvidia control panel which is as good as,however I'm going from comments here so this may be total nonsense?

Also,does Gsync still work OK in windowless border as I see a few games need this to go ultra wide?
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Flawless Widescreen works perfectly with Skyrim, havn't tried the others. Without it menus will be oversized/cut off top & bottom and FOV needs a little tweaking too.

From what I understand it basically hooks into the process running in memory and patches some code, it'd be better (but possibly not as legal) to patch the exe directly for a permanent fix, still looking into that one.
 
Good other than the photo I posted on the last page. I expect more for £1000 TBH

That being said,Ive been playing games for a few hours now and I dont think I will be going back to 16:9 again unless its a 40"...maybe. Also Gsync and 100hz make me wonder how Ive been gaming for so long without them and still enjoyed it, its so much smoother!
 
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not really sure - so if I changed my monitor to be really dark- install the icc profile then it would be a good picture..... ive changed via the onscreen settings to it and looks great to me anyway
 
spikerules said:
I'm sure it changes the settings via windows in software and not physically on the panel itself. So it basically does what you would do on OSD, but within software. I so I thought?
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no, you need both :) the OSD recommended settings achieve the best point you can for brightness and white point (since you are adjusting the RGB channels). The ICC profile then carries gamma curve correction and some more minute corrections and activates them at a graphics card level.

So for some, the OSD changes alone will be decent. the ICC profile could then bring about another improvements. the idea is to use them both though :)

note, the brightness setting has very little impact other than the luminance. so the setting listed in the review will get you to around 120 cd/m2. you can change that to whatever you want for your uses and ambient lighting conditions and it won't impact other elements of the calibration
 
Baddass said:
no, you need both :) the OSD recommended settings achieve the best point you can for brightness and white point (since you are adjusting the RGB channels). The ICC profile then carries gamma curve correction and some more minute corrections and activates them at a graphics card level.

So for some, the OSD changes alone will be decent. the ICC profile could then bring about another improvements. the idea is to use them both though :)

note, the brightness setting has very little impact other than the luminance. so the setting listed in the review will get you to around 120 cd/m2. you can change that to whatever you want for your uses and ambient lighting conditions and it won't impact other elements of the calibration
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Well I know the brightness effects the luminance, but the RGB settings they list make my image washed out and horrible whereas at the current settings they are just right not too saturated and not too washed out. In fact the colours are just downright wrong.... Changing RGB makes sense, but is there an option for Cyan, Magenta and Yellow? What colour space is this using?
 
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