Undecided on 4k flat vs 1440p curved ultrawide - Productivity with some gaming

hyperseven · 23 May 2019 at 19:33

Hades said:
Presumably if my GPU struggles to drive a 4K monitor for the latest games then I could drop the resolution to 1920x1080? I appreciate it's not ideal but I don't game much but for FPS games back in my Quake days I always valued framerate over visual quality.

Well with your V64 as long as you hit the 40-60FPS then Freesync should kick in. I am currently using a 4K 32" Benq and love it, had and still got boxed up a 27" Dell G-Sync. Was going to do a dual screen setup but used to the larger screen now and saving the Dell for a rainy day.

Vexr · 23 May 2019 at 20:44

+1 vote for 3440x1440 UW from me. Especially models with FreeSync/GSync and 100 hz+. Aiming for an in game 75-100+ fps is much more doable compared to 4k as well, and that's where real smoothness begins in my opinion. I can see why you're tempted by a 4k though coming from a 30" 2560x1600 as it would mean losing height, and that can be painful once you've gotten used to more vertical real estate (as I recall going from 1920x1200 to 1920x1080 back in the day).

pp111 · 24 May 2019 at 13:49

Hades said:
Presumably if my GPU struggles to drive a 4K monitor for the latest games then I could drop the resolution to 1920x1080? I appreciate it's not ideal but I don't game much but for FPS games back in my Quake days I always valued framerate over visual quality.

Yes you can do that. Or you can just change the game settings to lower the quality of the images. It's kind of a backward step though. I guarantee you that once you have a monitor capable of such awesome things then you will be tempted to go for something like a 2080ti to power it!!

Vexr · 25 May 2019 at 18:09

Hades said:
Presumably if my GPU struggles to drive a 4K monitor for the latest games then I could drop the resolution to 1920x1080? I appreciate it's not ideal but I don't game much but for FPS games back in my Quake days I always valued framerate over visual quality.

Yes you could but it'll look extremely soft compared with 4k - I doubt you'd want to play at that res for long.