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Best cheap, curved 1440p ultrawide monitor?

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AusWolf said:
No Gsync, only FreeSync. It's on, and it's doing its job. It just seems to be taking a good few seconds to adapt to the game for some reason.


I liked my curved 24" 1080p Samsung, too, but it's definitely more pronounced with 21:9.

Another thing I've just played with... Response time has 4 settings: "Fast" looks normal. "Super fast" is the same as fast, but with some slight black ghosting (useless). "Extreme" is just extreme ghosting (super useless). "MPRT" disables FreeSync and HDR (extreme useless). Why does this function even exist? :laugh:
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Generally Fast is for ~60 fps gaming, while Super Fast is for ~120 fps gaming.

Extreme should not be used in most cases, mostly its terrible :laugh:
 
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Chomiq said:
Gsync on? So much for no flicker @FoulOnWhite
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Like i said, i have NO flicker that i can see. Do you want to pop round and see for yourself or are you going to take my answer as i say?
 
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AusWolf said:
Another thing I've just played with... Response time has 4 settings: "Fast" looks normal. "Super fast" is the same as fast, but with some slight black ghosting (useless). "Extreme" is just extreme ghosting (super useless). "MPRT" disables FreeSync and HDR (extreme useless). Why does this function even exist? :laugh:
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I personally avoid monitors built in stuff like that and as you’ve experienced it disables more important features. I would only really change stuff like colour settings that suit you.
RTIings a great place to get the ideal setup for monitors They even have ”tweaked” icc colour profiles to download.
 
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FoulOnWhite said:
Like i said, i have NO flicker that i can see.
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I only have it for the first couple of seconds after the game loads the map. Not a dealbreaker, just a bit weird. I'll have to test with more games later.

las said:
Generally Fast is for ~60 fps gaming, while Super Fast is for ~120 fps gaming.

Extreme should not be used in most cases, mostly its terrible :laugh:
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I would just rather rename the four options as "normal", "bad", "terrible", and "never ever think about using this one". :laugh:

INSTG8R said:
I personally avoid monitors built in stuff like that and as you’ve experienced it disables more important features. I would only really change stuff like colour settings that suit you.
RTIings a great place to get the ideal setup for monitors They even have ”tweaked” icc colour profiles to download.
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I might have a look, although a 100% brightness, 75% contrast and 50% colour saturation seems to work nicely now. :)
 
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AusWolf said:
I only have it for the first couple of seconds after the game loads the map. Not a dealbreaker, just a bit weird. I'll have to test with more games later.


I would just rather rename the four options as "normal", "bad", "terrible", and "never ever think about using this one". :laugh:


I might have a look, although a 100% brightness, 75% contrast and 50% colour saturation seems to work nicely now. :)
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60 brightness, and 70 contrast for mine.
 
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AusWolf said:
I don't like brightness that low. It makes whites look grey. But each to their own. :)
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It's not as bad as you think

High brightness can cause eye strain and other problems.
 
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