World first QD-OLED monitor from Dell and Samsung (34 inch Ultrawide 175hz)

mrk said:
Have to say though God of War HDR isn't as impressive as Cyberpunk. The game's animation style and colour grading means that the pros of HDR don't seem to be realised to the fullest like they do in Cyberpunk's neon lit world.
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If you have these games you should try them

Doom Eternal
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
some the later Assassins Creed games
Forza Horizon 5
 
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Hmm got bored of Forza 5 and no longer have GamePass :o

not got Doom Eternal though but have played Tomb Raider. Creed games not really been my bag!

Playing Corpo on Cyberpunk though and as it's been a year or so since I did the earlier parts of the game, have forgotten them so am re-enjoying those. Such great contrast now, I had the RTX 2070 Super back then and was playing with no RTX. So this is a fresh layer of glitter for sure.

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mrk said:
Hmm got bored of Forza 5 and no longer have GamePass :o

not got Doom Eternal though but have played Tomb Raider. Creed games not really been my bag!

Playing Corpo on Cyberpunk though and as it's been a year or so since I did the earlier parts of the game, have forgotten them so am re-enjoying those. Such great contrast now, I had the RTX 2070 Super back then and was playing with no RTX. So this is a fresh layer of glitter for sure.

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Nice

I'm playing f1 2021 on it and it looks great. Think next will be cyberpunk!
 
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What's with the washed out look and grey blacks???? Oh wait, nvm, you haven't got a pitch black room....






;) :p :cry:

Having oled and HDR really shows of the RT psycho lighting with the light bouncing of objects etc.


I did read somewhere that it was possible to take screenshots without the washed out effect but can't remember exactly, maybe if you take them via geforce experience?

All in all, HDR is fine for me on windows, as long as the game supports it, if it doesn't well then it's not great.... windows auto hdr is quite good for a few games i.e. fallen order, batman arkham knight. One good way to tell if a game is working properly with hdr is via the rivatuner OSD, in SDR, the stats are orange colour but if hdr is on and proper HDR, the font will be red, although not always 100% this and cp 2077, the font stays orange.

TNA said:
Finally you finished it… not a patch on Far Cry 6 right? :cry:
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:cry:
 
VincentHanna said:
Be interesting if anybody does a teardown.

A massive heatsink on the back might have been better. My Sony A90J has one and I believe LG have put one on the 2022 G2.
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Yeah my Panasonic JZ1500 has one too. It really helps with the short term image retention. I have none whereas on my LG G1 you can notice it a little.
 
Haggisman said:
Iirc screenshots taken with the windows game bar will give you both a HDR ".jxr" file and a tonemapped SDR version
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That might be it. I'll try shortly.




So I had been using my monitor for the last two days and in sdr I thought the blacks did not look like they were actually switcher off, so I messed with the settings on the monitor and nothing, But then I changed the gamma and noticed the blacks got blacker as I put it to maximum gamma, but what I was testing on they should have been pure things like YouTube black bars and so on and blacks should not of been affected by gamma as they are meant to be switched off, Though in HDR blacks were fine but in SDrR black was not black, here is the fix

The fix Go to Nvidia control panel, Adjust desktop colour settings, Then tick override to reference mode, apply

That is it you now have pure blacks, and your monitor turns off the pixels now instead of lighting them up in a really dark black, This might not apply to everyone as some people may have that box already ticked, Though I have been running with this unticked for a while and was amazed after I ticked that box, it truly looks like oled now in SDR

I am pretty sure this setting was not off since i owned the monitor i would have noticed it, I did update my GPU drivers it may have auto unchecked it? Would be interested if any of you had the same issue and this helped or not? :)
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Might be worth a go for anyone noticing blacks aren't black....

https://www.reddit.com/r/ultrawidem...23dw/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
 
My reference mode tick box was off, but I have been running a calibrated setup for a while and using reference mode bypasses those and sends a direct output to the display which makes sense. Ticked it now though as not using any icc profiles etc any more - Although even in SDR the blacks were "off", as in true black for me anyway.

Hmm will have to maybe check out xbox game bar again, I have it disabled/uninstalled as didn't really like it and favoured Geforce Experience instead all this time.
 
mrk said:
My reference mode tick box was off, but I have been running a calibrated setup for a while and using reference mode bypasses those and sends a direct output to the display which makes sense. Ticked it now though as not using any icc profiles etc any more - Although even in SDR the blacks were "off", as in true black for me anyway.

Hmm will have to maybe check out xbox game bar again, I have it disabled/uninstalled as didn't really like it and favoured Geforce Experience instead all this time.
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For normal SDR viewing "reference mode" should only make a difference to pure black or indeed other shades if somebody accidentally changed any of the sliders on that page. Otherwise it will look identical to the default state:

Brightness: 50%
Contrast: 50%
Gamma: +1.00
Digital vibrance: +50%
Hue: +0°
 
Yeah that's what I was thinking hence why I saw no difference with it on or off and my blacks were pure anyway. I guess ticking it does no harm and zeros everything to the default value anyway so it's basically a reset these values button if anything.

I have finished my review of this for Neowin now and have mentioned pretty much everything that has been discussed here, I also mentioned the odd Dell customer support results as not everyone here has been getting the same level of care so that needs to be addressed by Dell.
 
Like the HDTVTest youtube vid showing the Alienware AW3423DW next to the LG 42C2 make's the LG not look too big probably buy both now will give me good 1440p and 4K monitor's.

Wait till the LG 42'' is £999 or less though, see no problem's for the AW34 everything as expected.
 
mrk said:
It's up now :D
https://www.neowin.net/news/review-...-qd-oled-ultrawide-monitor-by-dell-alienware/
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Nice review - glad you're enjoying it so much! I may be misremembering, but did you used to host some UltraWide wallpapers? I seem to recall you had a collection of them a while back and I've been using some in my wallpaper cycle.

Also, I was trying to hunt them down in your profile and came across this post. Back in 2014 you were basically describing the monitor you now have, 8 years later. :cry:
 
PCM2 said:
Nice review - glad you're enjoying it so much! I may be misremembering, but did you used to host some UltraWide wallpapers? I seem to recall you had a collection of them a while back and I've been using some in my wallpaper cycle.

Also, I was trying to hunt them down in your profile and came across this post. Back in 2014 you were basically describing the monitor you now have, 8 years later. :cry:
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Ah yes those were my photos I cropped to ultrawide wallpaper size. Link here: https://imgur.com/a/byEkjJG

That 34UM95 thread is a blast from the past, cool seeing some familiar usernames there that are now here too :D
 
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