Samsung S27A750D Pixels a bit big?

Perfect_Chaos · 8 Jun 2012 at 18:49

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

Perfect_Chaos · 8 Jun 2012 at 20:51

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.

Perfect_Chaos · 9 Jun 2012 at 06:22

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.

Perfect_Chaos · 9 Jun 2012 at 20:11

out of curiosity, if i decide to send it back under dsr i still have until monday or so? or is it 14 days with ocuk?, i had it last saturday.

Perfect_Chaos · 11 Jun 2012 at 23:05

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

Perfect_Chaos · 15 Jun 2012 at 00:00

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