The Asus ROG SWIFT PG278Q – a 27” 1400p 144Hz Monitor with G-SYNC

drs101 said:
cheers, so you find gaming at the higher res and refresh rate ok on a single card?

still a lot to drop on a screen, but very tempted
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well, i certainly don't max out everything, but my gaming is completely comfortable.

i am currently thinking about going for a single 980, or waiting until next year for the next generation (lower nm architecture). we'll see.
 
I was wondering (and unable to find the answer easily online), what happens on ROG Swift when you run older 4:3 games? Do you get black curtain borders either side? Or does it stretch the picture to fill the screen? Or is this something you set in graphics card setup somewhere (I'm getting a new PC with 980 and ROG Swift soonish).
 
VirtuaIceMan said:
I was wondering (and unable to find the answer easily online), what happens on ROG Swift when you run older 4:3 games? Do you get black curtain borders either side? Or does it stretch the picture to fill the screen? Or is this something you set in graphics card setup somewhere (I'm getting a new PC with 980 and ROG Swift soonish).
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The Rog has no options so it has to be a GPU method.
Can't speak for AMD cards but for Nvidia, in nvcp go to "Adjust desktop size and position" then in the scaling tab click on "no scaling", leave GPU in the dropdown underneath, then make sure to tick the "override the scaling mode set by games...." box.
This does 1:1 pixel mapping, so you won't get any stretching, but black borders.

I've not tried 4:3 games, but have tried it at 21:9 resolutions (as my other monitor is) and it adds borders top and bottom, so should be the same.

What's interesting is, with this method Gsync does not work, as it does not consider the screen to be in true Fullscreen, so beware that!
 
That's interesting; so theoretically to get correct aspect ratio for old non-widescreen games, I'd have to lose G-Sync?

I don't plan to heavily hack/mod older games to run widescreen (as I know there's all sorts of mods for old games, but some involve 3rd party mods and FOV tweaks, etc, but I like games in their original non-modded state for doing comparisons, etc).

I will find out on 13th October heh...
 
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VirtuaIceMan said:
That's interesting; so theoretically to get correct aspect ratio for old non-widescreen games, I'd have to lose G-Sync?

I don't plan to heavily hack/mod older games to run widescreen (as I know there's all sorts of mods for old games, but some involve 3rd party mods and FOV tweaks, etc, but I like games in their original non-modded state for doing comparisons, etc).

I will find out on 13th October heh...
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That's definitely what I've found when testing aye (you can 100% confirm by checking the little led light bottom right of the monitor - it turns red when Gsync is active), so I presume it would be the same for 4:3.

Thing is, with games that old you won't be needing Gsync anyway. As long as you can achieve 85hz vsync locked and above you can run ULMB instead, which is brilliant by the way! CRT quality
 
Overdrive settings....

....I've left mine on Normal, but there is Extreme and Off to choose from too.

The TFT central review recommends to leave at normal, using the blurbusters tests.

So what have fellow Swift owners got the Overdrive setting at? Any point messing around with it? (Never had a fast monitor before with this setting)
 
I'm just reviewing this monitor at the moment.

I know this model is obviously aimed at Nvidia users, but can anybody with an AMD GPU confirm whether they were able to run the monitor at 144Hz?
 
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