Samsung S27A750D Pixels a bit big?

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I have had this monitor for almost a week now, while it's very good in it's performance i am still a bit put off at the jaggies i see in games. I upgraded from a Samsung 22" 226bw which has a max res of 1680 x 1050, so going to this newer monitor i had a bit of an increase in res but more so in size.

I completely forgot about the pixels being bigger because of the resolution at it's size. I went for it because it has a good resolution to not strain the graphics card and still get high fps, so really the pixelly looking edges of some things is a bit annoying.. though the 120hz is nice.

I expect i could get used to it but i'm not really sure, any opinions/suggestions?. AA doesn't do a whole lot to help things
 
Just to reiterate, I do think you'll get increasingly used to it. A week is really not a long time to get accustomed to a new monitor that is so much larger than your other without a big step up in resolution. The aliasing becoming more apparent isn't entirely down to the pixel pitch - the pixels can only be seen if you look quite closely. Have you tried forcing Super Sample AA through the driver just to see what it is like? I don't think L4D2 has that kind of feature internally so if you're using the maximum antialiasing through the game then it might not be doing as much as you think.
 
On another game (rFactor2) the following advice was posted on the forum to help with jaggies using AMD graphics cards. Obviously the in-game settings won't be directly relevant but this includes the super-sample AA setting that PCM2 mentions as well as some other settings that cured the problem for the OP.

"AA level 4x, Stanmdard Filter
Anisotropic - use default
Tessellation - AMD Optimized
Texture Filtering Quality - High Quality
vertical refresh - Off (i'm yet to proplery play with this area yet)
AA Mode - Super-sample AA

In RF2 config panel set the AA to Off/None and in game set the Anistropic to 8x"

Hope it helps...
 
As PCM2 said, i really notice the jaggies in L4D2. I have had some conversations with him over email and he's very helpful. Posting here mainly to see what others say.

I am not home right now so i won't be able to try supersampling until i get back later, if the monitor is partially to blame though i can't see it making a huge difference?. or will it affect performance a ton? i always use in game settings.

Pretty sure i see some fuzziness sometimes as well, i turned off the grain filter in game but i don't think it helped.
 
I've gone from 226BW to S27A750D too, althought the new monitor is currently boxed waiting for return due to a stuck pixel.

BF3 looks really good on the monitor but I did notice some jaggies in rfactor / project CARS.

Will be playing around with settings when I get the replacement monitor but I recall having similar issues and being able to resolve by playing around with settings in the past.
 
Ok i tried all 3 antialiasing modes, supersampling was the only one that made a bit of a difference at 8x but it also seemed to make the game blurry.. not to mention drop the framerate like a rock. Even then things still had jagged edges.

Either it's the monitor making things have jagged edges or i am noticing it more because of the bigger screen.. Wish there was a way to have a screen this size and resolution but without the jaggies.
 
As you know the monitor you bought is (IIRC) only 1900x1080. I have always considered, since seeing a few, that I would not want to have a monitor with that resolution on anything bigger than a 24" screen.
(The fact that I prefer 16:10 rather than 16:9 for my PC needs is a little academic for this thread)
I would expect something like 2560x1440 but I do know that cost of such a monitor and then demands of a high end system to play games don't make it that affordable for some people. The games and Windows does look incredibly sharp though on such a resolution.
Maybe you can play around, like you are doing, with your settings and hope to make some improvement but I think that you will have to accept that going from a 22" to a 27" with not much of a change of resolution it is going to have an impact on how things look.

When I have used, was not my monitor or PC, a 27" of that resolution I did not like how big everything looked on the desktop as well.

I have the choice of using my Samsung 22" 1680x1050 or a Dell 24" 1920x1080 and I'm using the Samsung as I prefer that aspect ratio.

Best of luck.
 
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Well, samsung support is basically useless.

Sent them an email about it to see the response and was told it's not a fault of the monitor and to run at full resolution & 120hz refresh rate.

Yeah.. real helpful, they didn't really answer my questions
 
I just wanted to let everyone know, i set up my 22" 226bw again and notice the jaggies in much the same way as on this 27". I was quite surprised because i thought the difference would be big, but it wasn't.

After talking more to PCM2, the actual difference in pixels per inch between a 24" 1920x1080 and the 27" at the same resolution is really small. So there would be no point in me downgrading to a 24" as i'd notice the jaggies almost exactly like on the 27"

Reading around the net though people say not to go bigger than a 24" at 1920x1080 but to 27" the difference is actually really small
 
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