I'm getting twitchy

jimortality · Dec 31, 2014

I'm an idiot! I have a perfectly working lovely Dell 29" ultra wide monitor 2560 x 1080 but I'm getting twitchy and started looking at tv's to mount on my rig. I now need you all to tell me to stop being an arse, grow up and stop wasting money!!!!
Happy New Year

PaulH · Dec 31, 2014

Tell me about it

, been looking at 32" screens(monitors) for ages, would be hell of a stepup from my 24" I use now

Lets see what the January sales bring.....

jimortality · Dec 31, 2014

Paul Hurlow said:
Tell me about it , been looking at 32" screens(monitors) for ages, would be hell of a stepup from my 24" I use now
Lets see what the January sales bring.....

32" screen are too expensive but a 40" Sony tv in argos at £299 is getting me twitchy and my rig stand can hold up to 42"

Kjell Eilertsen · Dec 31, 2014

If you get a TV, make sure you buy one that doesn't have a ton of input lag, most TVs do and that's why they make for bad gaming screens.

SnappyDEe · Dec 31, 2014

I use 3 39" TV's. It's sick!

jimortality · Dec 31, 2014

Kjell Eilertsen said:
If you get a TV, make sure you buy one that doesn't have a ton of input lag, most TVs do and that's why they make for bad gaming screens.

Yeah you're right. How are you getting on with your Dell?

jimortality · Dec 31, 2014

Just checked a review of the Sony I was looking at and with the Leo Bodnar input lag tester, it has 42ms lolololol that's that over with. I've slapped myself and I'm going to do the sensible thing and carry on with with my Dell.

Kjell Eilertsen · Dec 31, 2014

I love my Dell very much, but if I had room for triples it would have to go, that or if I had the wallet for a 34" 21:9 from LG

PaulH · Dec 31, 2014

Kjell Eilertsen said:
I love my Dell very much, but if I had room for triples it would have to go, that or if I had the wallet for a 34" 21:9 from LG

Not this one is it? Had my eye on this for months, coming down in price......was £799 not so long ago

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-106-LG

jimortality · Dec 31, 2014

Kjell Eilertsen said:
I love my Dell very much, but if I had room for triples it would have to go, that or if I had the wallet for a 34" 21:9 from LG

Yeah those LG 34 are expensive. I have room for triples but I would want to upgrade my 770 card so the expense just keeps going up. My only issue with the 29" is some games don't have 2560 res so you end up with the side bars and it looks crap so apart from using 1980 x1080 any other suggestions? Luckily, RF2 caters for 2560 res so that's all good.

Kjell Eilertsen · Dec 31, 2014

Paul Hurlow said:
Not this one is it? Had my eye on this for months, coming down in price......was £799 not so long ago
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-106-LG

Yep, that one

Kjell Eilertsen · Dec 31, 2014

Jim Brailsford said:
Yeah those LG 34 are expensive. I have room for triples but I would want to upgrade my 770 card so the expense just keeps going up. My only issue with the 29" is some games don't have 2560 res so you end up with the side bars and it looks crap so apart from using 1980 x1080 any other suggestions? Luckily, RF2 caters for 2560 res so that's all good.

Many games that don't support 21:9 reso can still be run in "Windowed mode" and then "Fullscreen", which makes the game adopt your desktop resolution of 2560x1080. An example of this is just about every Blizzard game.
Other than that I dunno, you could run the game at 1920x1080 and have the monitor stretch or zoom the image to fit the entire screen, but it's not gonna look great imo. I don't play any games that won't run full screen but I don't find the black bars on the sides that disturbing when watching movies.

PaulH · Jan 1, 2015

To be honest, that's what's holding me back is whether RF2, GSCe, AC etc would support a resolution of 3440X1440, pointless spending all that money to play in the same resolution I'm getting now

Kjell Eilertsen · Jan 1, 2015

I don't care about the resolution so much, as long as I can't see individual pixels I would be fine with 1080p on a 34", not sure if I would or not though.