/v/ - Video Games

I still consider 16:10 to be the best. I've seen others with those ultrawide and superultrawide resolutions, but they've never appealed to me much. I also help that I don't have problems with very low or very high FOVs so I can play pretty much any FOV setting.

>>14721119

100% meme for gaming. Decent for productivity and (some) movies

>>14721302

it was just some driveby shitpost about an hour ago where an anon begged for money to buy a monitor. Nothing interesting.

>>14721313

I don't know, it got like two replies before it got deleted.

>>14721324

No. He just posted some presumably bogus patreon link or something.

Just picked up a 27 inch one and I'm quite happy with it.

>>14721337

Dragon dildo, what the fuck do you think?

All monitors since CRTs are a meme because they all have some fatal flaw for gaming. We will never get anything as well rounded again and the next big thing will be strapping 5 inches of 8K OLEDs to your eyeballs when VR helmets mature enough. Thanks Jews.

Man I hate how the movies are all made in widescreen aspect ratio. It'a annoying watching it on a 16:9 screen and having the actual picture being smaller due to the black lines.

As for vidya OP I think it can be an enjoyable experience so long as you have a powerful setup. It would be more to singleplayer games with nice graphics rather than fps shooters/

Personally I think the ideal setup would prioritize high refresh rate with gsync above other things.

>>14721446

I hate the current state of monitor tech. We're basically just waiting for 8K (Since anything past that would be a negligible difference) to become the norm. Then when we've finally hit that final frontier of resolution, companies will finally address the issues of color accuracy, responses time, etc that plague currently LCD/LED displays.

There is really no reason to own one if you aren't doing any type of productivity work on your PC because 60 percent of games are not going to support ultrawide resolutions and you going to be sitting there with your money down the drain and having two giant black bars at each side of your screen. My roommate bought one of these and it's fairly uprising when he actually finds a game that supports it. Just get a nice 16:10 monitor with a high refresh rate and don't waste your money.

>>14721733

What if I like the cold? Also I don't want any cat brain parasites thank you.

>>14721737

>Also I don't want any cat brain parasites thank you.

Posting on this website alone means you're probably already infected with them. GG

>>14721733

But they make noise and drink power like nothing else.

>>14721759

they don't make noise the human ear literally can't perceive a 31khz sine wave it's beyond the frequency range of human hearing. Also stop being poor.

>>14721780

We're talking VGA CRTs which you can find anywhere for as high as $15 to as cheap as free to someone willing to move it.

>>14721735

>We're basically just waiting for 8K (Since anything past that would be a negligible difference)

Are you positive that they wouldn't just push it anyway?

>>14721802

8K is a long time away. The equipment just hit the professional broadcast field and it's equipment by Japanese companies like Ikegami and it's exclusively in Japan.

>>14722019

>Lying on the internet

Kill yourself.

Alright lads, sine ultrawide monitors are a meme, what's the next best thing?

>>14722019

That problem is software not properly handling widescreen or not providing any degree of customization. Not widescreen itself.

However, I will agree with you that because of so much software handling it poorly, ultra-widescreen is a waste of money for most people.

Unless you're using software that properly utilizes it, it's objectively inferior.

>>14721119

If your games support it it's good, if it doesn't it's bad. Chances are they don't.

>>14722025

Stockholm syndrome is quite a condition.

>>14722019

You're retarded. Resolution and screen size have to factor in too. Stop reading shit off of reddit and thinking its fact.

>>14722034

Stop talking in third person you disgusting homosexual soyboy.

>>14721733

>220hz refresh rate*

*at 640x480

At max res it's more like 85Hz.

>>14722032

>All media made before 2010 is designed for use with non-ultra-widescreen monitors

Either you're going to end up with black bars on the sides, or it's going to cut it off as demonstrated, or it'll end up with a distorted aspect ratio when it attempts to fullscreen. Human vision literally cannot see full color or fine detail in the periphery, so widescreen of any kind is completely pointless. If you have to move your head to see what's on the other side of your wall-spanning monitor, why not just move the fucking game camera?

>>14721119

Please tell me you're that guy that made a thread complaining about japanese games not having FOV sliders.

How much wider are screens going to get? Are we gonna see bar screens in our lifetime? Fucking ridiculous.

>>14721132

>16:10

My nigger

>>14721119

Yes. Just like the 3dtvs and curved tvs and smellovisions before it, these are just memetvs.

Get a curved ultrawide to show off to your soyfriends.

>>14721750

No anon, you see, I have a dog.

Nigger a standard screen is all you need for Quake tier POV.

>>14728806

>>14728985

You see those merchants from Israel? They've got curved monitors. Curved. Monitors.

>>14722019

>Being this dumb in a public forum

16:10 > 16:9

Monitors get to a point where it doesn't seem like you really get much more out of it going bigger except you have to move your head around more to see shit which gets irritating. Idk, I'm just not into those ultra-wide 100,000x100,000 inch UED 4HKEDU PPI TPIA DOBTY or whatever the fuck. Things looks perfectly fine on a cheapo monitor

>>14721737

>cat brain parasites

Are those the ones they told you are making people gay? What a fucking joke.

>>14721766

It's not the screen that makes the noise, it's the transformer, cycling voltage or something. I'm not an electrical engineer; I just know it does it and that's incontrovertible.

>>14729214

This made me laugh way harder than it should have.

if you want bigger don't get a widescreen, ever.

Just scale up in resolution but keep things in 16:9

I would suggest a 2k screen on a 27'' 16:9 display

Will make your life a lot better

I got this and can recommend it: amazon.com/Pixio-Display-Professional-Adaptive-Monitor/dp/B079GN819B

>Muh $399

-It's literally less than an XboneX.

-You probably spent more on your computer.

-I got it on sale for $300.

-Has nice thin bezels

-It uses the exact same screen as this $800 monstrosity

newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIACVB7AB5335&cm_re=1440p_144hz_monitor_ips-_-24-106-004-_-Product

>What's a pixio?

Basically, South Korea manufactures a fuck ton of HD screens, so little Korean companies like pixio will pop up and sell the surplus that Samsung, Asus, and every other big brand doesn't want.

In terms of display technology it is the exact same tech that Acer, et al puts in their screens but without the brand price mark up.

Problems: The product's quality usually stops at the display tech.

-The DPI cable that came with mine couldn't handle 144hz, so I had to buy a new one for $7.

-Screen stand is solid but not that adjustable. Luckily I had a vesa mount so it didn't matter for me

-Their are reported screens that have dead pixels, but all screens are like that regardless of brand. Luckily mine didn't have any dead pixels.

-The software they put into the screens is very minimalist, which I personally like, but others may find the menu to be lacking in features.

>What is IPS

Better Colors,

Better for your eyes,

keeps the screen from getting blurry around the edges.

Definitely get IPS If your having issues seeing the edges of your screen Anon.

The original patented IPS tech that LG uses isn't used in the Pixio because its copyrighted and all that.

So it actually uses Samsung's AH-VA screen tech but the performance is virtually the same. Everyone just uses the term IPS for some reason.

>Why 2k res?

Because the difference between 2k and 4k is practically negligible to the naked eye.

4k does however, hammer your GPU with 30% more performance loss than 2k does.

Also it scales up nicely to 27" like I said before.

I have a rich fag room mate who literally has three monitors a 1080p, 1440p and 4k monitor.

I asked him which one he uses the most in games and he said 1440p.

Even though he put the 4k in the middle of his desk, (probably to show of to his friends that come over.) He's always leaning over and doing everything on his 2k display when I see him on his rig.

I'm waiting for 1440p 240hz to release this year. Someone mentioned color accuracy and IPS, after some thought I wager IPS monitors don't do me any good since I'm strong protanopia color blind, no need for color accuracy. Just put colors at 70+% saturation and you're set, if you are the lucky colorblind.

>>14731562

The reason IPS has correct color isn't because it has Six gorillion Colors more than LCD, it's because of the superb viewing angles.

No matter what angle you view it at the screen has zero distortion. (Vid Related)

The reason i mentioned it is because OP was having trouble with FOV.

Most Display Manufactures know that If you go over 25" or so on a computer monitor with TN panels then you start to get major color distortion.

That's the reason why their Engineers are making new displays curved,

because otherwise the edge's of an TN panel ultra wide would look like a distorted mess. like they have been for ages now.

So now manufactures want to build a TN screen (cheaper to produce and what most people use) and curve it to minimize the distortion,

then meme about how great going curved is and charge a higher price for it.

Thing is, you don't need to buy into the curved sword meme to avoid distortion since they solved that problem with IPS technology years ago.

The thing that makes really mad is fucking Curved IPS Displays.

Like why the fuck are you curving your IPS screen when you can already view it from any angle!?

Fucking normalfags need to stop buying meme screens and go back to Apples Retina froo froo Mac's where they belong.

>>14731490

>>14731692

what the fuck kind of formatting is this

>>14731698

More than a one liner shit post.

If it makes you feel better you can go to reddit or half chan.

Also YT embeds squeeze your text into a block, but there's not much I can do about that.

>>14731722

Isn't that the same way Redditers have their posts organized once they're posted?

>>14731775

It's not easy to read, it's a sloppy, pointlessly long wall of text with unnecessary line breaks. If you can't write in English, don't post on English boards.

>>14731785

Then just don't read it and stop complaining faggot.

I'd like to see how you'd reformat my post to be "more legible".

Go ahead, copy and paste >>14731490 then edit it to be "more legible".

Teach me your ways of formatting sensei.

Fucking lazy niggers telling everyone how they should type on a basket weaving forum.

>>14731079

Depends on monitor, some will have whine sounds other wont. Usually what makes the sound is a coil that's not secured well enough either by a case or by glue.

Same shit happens to high end graphic cards/PSUs/motherboards or even consoles, you can run into a whinning one.

>>14721132

>I still consider 16:10 to be the best

Me too.

Alright, since most people agree that ultrawide is a meme I'm thinking i'm gonna go with a 1440p monitor. With 144hz, and hopefully Gsync. I've got one picked out:

https://www.amazon.com/Dell-Gaming-S2716DGR-LED-Lit-Monitor/dp/B0149QBOF0

>>14722019

Is pic 3 supposed to be goatse?

>>14741377

Thanks for explaining what was a painfully obvious joke bro

>>14741379

No problem.

>>14733353

for CRTs its the age and quality that can create whine.

>>14727720

I am.

>>14721119

I don't know, what's the aspect ratio of human vision?

We definitely don't see as tall as we see wide, and although the ratio varies per person there should be an average that monitors should strive for instead of mindlessly going "EXXXXTRA WIDE" without any reason other than the shilling campaign created to sell people inferior plasma screens when CRTs were still a thing.

16:9 definitely isn't wide enough, but the average ultrawide monitor is 21:9 and that might be too wide.

>>14722247

Yeah, with a random shitty CRT mom n pops bought from walmart on recommendation of a store clerk "expert", sure.

>>14731490

>that pseudoscience straight out of a bogus tech review site

Damn anon, I always assumed everyone who talked about tech on /v/ was wrong because it's true but that is to go even further beyond.

>>14741556

get a barco reality 909, 4K crt projector

>>14741556

for a home theater setup this is fine, but I don't think the refresh rates on projectors are sufficient for gaming

>>14742548

They are just fine.

>>14742548

Projectors can do higher refresh rates than any other display tech so far.

>>14741556

damn that looks so comfy. I need a set up like this in my life one day.

>>14721119

100hz is a waste of money tbh. You don't need more than 60.

>>14741384

Fucking autistic bitch.

>>14742548

Projectors have excellent response time and refresh rates can go very high.

>>14721132

>tfw my old 1400x900 monitor died

>1920x1080 just feels too wide

Sure it's good for movies, but I feel like I'm missing part of the screen otherwise. If 1920x1200 wasn't so pricey in comparison I would have done it.

>>14749703

I need at least 100. 60 gives my headaches.

>>14750340

>1920x1200

It's too niche lad. Also nip faggots can't be bothered to support that resolution properly half the time.

>>14753287

I got used to seeing bars on videos and certain games with my 1400x900 monitor, so if a fullscreen application only supported 1080p it would just have bars as well, unless it auto-adjusts for 1200p and fucks it up.

>>14754172

Both have their pros and cons, it's easier to limit screencaptures by monitor, dividing workloads and it's cheaper (as far as I know) to run UHD monitors to mimic ultra widescreen. Ultra widescreen is easier to set up, don't need to split your inputs, don't run into issues with trying to achieve parallel framerates between monitors, looks nicer without difficult setup

>>14721446

Correct, all software, hardware, peripheral, and tertiary considerations related to electronic entertainment or internet humor in any form are fatally flawed and should not be considered for purchase or use.

Except CRTs.

>>14722019

Now this is an interesting post.

>>14721132

>>14727723

>Not 8:5

You quadruple niggers.

>>14754254

>Now this is an interesting post.

Not really, he's just reposting /tech/'s 4:3 promotion images and regurgitating the entry-level "muh movies" take on why widescreen monitors caught on. There's genuine reasons to use 4:3 monitors but only the last image touches on any of them.

>>14749949

Unless things changed recently, projectors have high input lag and are unusable for fast-paced games. The ones with reasonable image quality (but still fuzzy compared to a LCD) are 40ms+ input lag, and the shit tier ones that sacrifice quality for speed still don't get below 16ms.

If you want a larger display, just sit closer. Avoid memes.

It seems 16:10 monitors with decent resolution upgrades cost an arm and a leg these days.

>>14754738

Unfortunately. 16:10 was a great aspect ratio.

>tfw we have 2560x1600 and 2560x1920 over 10 years ago with glorious 16:10 and 4:3

>now we're just getting 2560x1440

What a mistake.

>>14731692

Never thought about how curved displays help deter image color distortion. Pretty cool, thanks. Much more respect for IPS now. Is VA just an inbetween from IPS and TN? I've always stuck to TN for the best pixel response (120hz pre-ulmb/gsync monitor, rip). I probably would opt for an IPS these days since its approaching the nearness of pixel response of TN panels, especially the 240hz monitors. Tough choice.

>>14754932

>>Not gaming

But most of /v/ already does this.

More important questions faggots

Why do 4k tvs cost the same as 4k monitors?

Why the fuck are 2k monitors so expensive?

And before you say freesync, my tv has freesync

>>14755100

cheaper panels. which ones are you comparing?

>>14755122

I got an element 4k tv which is (supposed) to be at 75hz and hdr for like $300, that's like the same price as the 4k monitors I can find.

>>14755133

>Element

it's a very cheap panel.

>>14755138

Ok then smart guy, where's the cheap 4k panels for monitors?

>>14755147

they probably aren't made very much because the market for monitors and TVs is fairly different and discernible. It's why there's been 120hz TVs for like 9 years but most LCD monitors have been 60hz. It likely has a low color depth like 8 or even 6-bit in some cases, shit grey to grey times, ghosting issues, poor response time, etc.

>>14755192

I want to believe you but at the same time, my TV's been dropped twice which got me $40 off and it's got nice color depth

>>14755309

Unless you give me the exact model number I can't tell you exactly what the deal is with it.