Samsung Odyssey 49" OLED G9 G95SC

bigup said:
How is the HDR, what's is it like using one of the streaming apps
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Had to turn it on windows manually otherwise it runs at 8 bit. I'm using display port not sure if that makes any difference.

I just ran a quick session of Red Dead Redemption I wouldn't say I'm overly blown away but I've got a lot of default settings on, I probably shouldn't like eco mode etc after looking through the menus.

And the brightness is low by default as well.

I'll look around later and see if anyone has any decent settings for the monitor to start using myself.

Right now just optimising windows so there are less icons hanging around etc when I'm just browsing the web on it.

This will be my main monitor for everything so I'll be a good test pilot for anyone who is worried about burn in :D
 
bigup said:
How is the HDR, what's is it like using one of the streaming apps
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Most content has the black bars on either side :) but picture quality is fine (Amazon Prime) maybe there are settings to tweak for this (probably)
JediFragger said:
Nice one boys, enjoy the new toys!! Bet you never thought you'd get one so fast a couple of weeks ago when we only just started chatting about it @Personality+ !!!
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That's correct I was expecting late August, and then the price reduction even better :cool: now I've just gotta figure out how to use the damn thing :p
 
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Anyone have any idea what I should set these to, I see I can dial up the brightness with changing SDR content brightness :) which is good. But I don't know what the limit should be
 
JediFragger said:
Nice @Personality+ !! And more and more games are coming out now with native 32:9 support (last time I tried one a few years ago got a lot of 'fisheye' effect with a fair few games). Gonna have a serious think this next couple of hours...
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Yes I heard the same, but I haven't tested the monitor enough to have a clue about spotting it.
But it looks amazing in native on F1, Red Dead Redemption 2 and Flight Simulator.
Ideally I'll be able to bounce between that and 2560x1440 windowed mode for certain games, but I'll probably need some content running on the other side, as the non lit portion of the screen not getting a workout has seen some people pick up some burn in on other panels at least.
 
Sanjiv said:
Looks lovely! One question, (probably of many later), how long is the power cable from the monitor to the power brick itself?
Asking as my current screen is on an arm attached to a false wall in which all my cables run and I would need to be able to store the brick under my desk and feed the power cable up the false wall to the screen.
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My tables width is 150 cm and I think it's slightly more than that in length between that and the brick if you want to fully extend it.
 
rockypee123 said:
There’s a windows HDR calibration app. I’d suggest downloading that on the windows store and using that to tweak settings initially. I’m sure as more people get their hands on it they’ll give tweaks to settings that make it better.
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thanks for this, some nice basic improvements :) that I can tweak.

playing MW2 at 32:9 was a bunch of fun as well just now.

Justifying my purchase hour by hour.

I'll need to find a good solution for windowed 2560x1440 but I'll probably have to scour ultrawide forums for personalised solutions I imagine.
 
Carl_Bennetts said:
So the usual DPD issue of them not delivering as per the 1 hour slot (3:50 - 4:50) and now waiting to see if he shows up at all today. This seems to happen a lot for me here in Cornwall!!

just got the "oh no!, we've missed you, we will be back tomorrow". Sigh.... No 49inches for me tonight!
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I made sure to pay the 3.99 extra for pre 10:30am because of my past experience with deliveries like this hopefully you get it tomorrow.
 
Don't know if anyone else has tried it yet but playback on amazon prime app videos was fine and playback via pc but disney plus app on the monitor feels like its playing at a higher refresh rate (monitors) than intended and the picture quality seems off.

Maybe something to do with my settings.

Also ran into issues running nvidia reflex settings on a lot of games at the native resolution of the monitor (would drop gpu utilisation down dramatically) across a variety of games, the boost setting giving the most issues.

And in some games I was unable to boot them or they'd keep crashing since the change of monitor but gave me no issues beforehand (The Witcher 3 and FH5)

There could be some other settings causing my issues, but didn't have the time to try and see if anyone had issues like this for the resolution.

In other cases the games run flawlessly from the get go, and are at 99% or 100% utilisation.

FIFA, The Ascent, Red Dead Redemption 2.
 
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duc999 said:
Just ordered this and managed to stack the codes, at 1199 that seems to be a decent price to pay :D I will pick up a good quality displayport cable capable of 244Hz as well. Just need a new GPU to drive it now :cool:

Can any users let me know if the displayport connection to the monitor is normal size or the mini variety ?
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Normal display port and comes with the display port cable capable of 8k resolution and of course 240 frames for the monitors resolution. Also came with a hdmi mini cable.
 
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Sanjiv said:
Regarding the disney plus issue, have you tried playback via the website rather than the app to see if that behaves in the same way?
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I'll try that when I'm home, it uses built in Samsung browser though probably.

Regardless watching content on it away from pc isn't ideal. Feels like that side of the monitor Is better suited for normal TV oleds once you're out of the menu experience.
 
Jimbo said:
Is anyone concerned about HDR on this panel? Seems it's no where near 1000nits. My current AW3423DWF has better brightness I'm hoping I won't miss that. Saying that when I took the AW3423DWF out of the box my other half said that is tiny lol compared to my older LG 38 inch ultra gear monitor lol.
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When I did the hdr calibration in the windows app recommended it was giving me about 900 nits with display port for the white Cross to disappear and over 2000 with mini hdmi. I don't know why there was such a dramatic difference.
 
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I'm torn on this monitor due to hdr looking amazing in some games (Red Dead Redemption 2, The Ascent, The Division 2) and awful in others (F1 2023) haven't had a chance to try FH5 as my game won't boot up for some reason. Would have been a great one to try out.

So it feels like its game specific whether it actually looks any good.

Might reset my settings when I'm home tonight and work from there again.

I also need to try the monitor with pixel shifting turned off and see if I notice a performance difference there in general use. As some times text was getting quite unreadable and I'm not sure if it was pixel shifting or something else, this was specifically against a white background.
 
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