Thinking of upgrading my monitor in a reasonable way.

yes, personally i think so. the various displays claiming HDR without being able to properly display HDR is no use. Better to get SDR displays at the same price, but higher quality.

 

In general. IPS has better color accuracy but worse light bleed (greyish blacks). VA has less light bleed (better blacks, but still greyish) but slightly worse color accuracy, QLED (quantum dot) can help with colors. Oh and viewing angles are worse on VA than IPS. This is the main reason I go IPS instead of VA, as the color shift is pretty noticeable to me. For large or wide angle monitors, a curved display will help with this. Not everyone is sensitive to the color shift, so if it's a concern, try before you buy.

Of course, now that I've started using OLED for my main display, there's no way I can go back to either IPS or VA. It's just mind blowing how much better everything looks when you have blacks that are actually black. Even FALD with mini-LED backlighting doesn't fully address this problem on LCD panels. The haloing and backlight glow is smaller for high contrast sections of a screen, but it's still there and for me is still very very distracting and visible and any section that is predominantly black with just a few pixels needing to be lit up will still be greyish black. That is so jarring if the lighting zone next to it is only black and hence has no backlight on.

That said, for most movie content, it's not that noticeable unless you have high contrast scenes (like a night time starfield. That's also a type of scene that exposes another drawback of LCD compared to OLED, the slower pixel response generally leads to a loss of detail in motion compared to OLED.

Anyway, I think I got sidetracked a bit. IPS and VA is just which trade-off do you prefer. Most people prefer the deeper blacks of VA compared to the slightly better color accuracy and wider viewing angle of IPS.

Regards,
SB

 

I'd disagree with this. Even without local dimming you'll still get the extended colour pallet in HDR mode and some games just don't play well in SDR from a colours point of view vs the HDR that they were originally authored in. And you'll still get a noticeable improvement to bright light sources even without FALD/OLED so it's worth getting something with an HDR mode as long as you don't have to spend a massive amount more for it especially baring in mind that many new games support HDR these days and Microsoft are about to launch to the Auto-HDR feature on Windows.

 

Yes this is why I turn local dimming off altogether on my monitor. I'd rather the whole screen was greyish than some parts black and others obviously grey were the light source is. Mines an IPS and the two biggest drawbacks for me are the lack of black blacks (although it's okay in that regard) and IPS glow from the corners, although that's only visible in dark content. The PC's plugged into an OLED TV as a secondary display which is far better in both regards (perfect obviously) but for me, aspect ratio and viewport size win out given the TV is on the other side of the room from the PC. Unfortunately I never found a way to reliably and consistently force a 21:9 resolution on my TV via custom resolutions in the NV control panel. It worked for some games, but not all.

 

Just play it in a wide aspect ratio in a window. With my 55" CX, that's still wider than most ultra-widescreen monitors.

And with the perfect blacks, there's no distracting glow. The borders can be a problem (they don't bother me), but there's some utilities out there that allow you to hide the borders of windows (can't remember any of them offhand).

That effectively gives you everything an ultra-widescreen display would give you.

Regards,
SB

 

Yeah the best method I found was to create a custom 21:9 resolution and set Windows to that, then run games in borderless Windowed mode at that resolution. Problem is not all games support borderless windowed (or can lose performance in that mode), and some will just default to full screen 16:9 regardless of what resolution you set them to run at. When it works you do indeed get the best of all worlds but it's a bit of a faf and quite hit and miss unfortunately. There's also the problems with productivity on a big screen. If it's purely for gaming then no problem but if you want to work/browse/whatever else on it too then generally you want the display sitting behind a desk and quite close to you which I'm not sure works too well in those size ranges. It's why ultrawides are generally curved on the PC so that the close up experience doesn't result in you having to change focus to look out at the edges. That's generally not a problem with TV's at normal living room distances.

 

Yeah, mine is on my desk about 2.5-3' in front of me depending on how close I'm sitting to my desk. I wish the display was curved (LG used to make curved OLED TVs but they don't anymore ), but I've gotten used to it. When doing work, I'll just put lesser used windows to the sides and kind of lean over a bit when I need to see what's on them.

Regards,
SB

 

Yes

 

To which bit lol? I'm not sure if they reduce glare but they do distort it more which can in itself be more distracting. I have much bigger problems (relatively speaking) on my shiny TV screen than my relatively matt monitor screen though.

 

if your room is bright. IPS could looks really similar to VA.

 

RX580 can't go above 1080?
I feel like you're severely under-selling the capability of that chip.
What games are you playing/are you super FPS sensitive?

I currently have a 5600XT running my Dell U3011 (2560*1600)
Before that I had an RX480 & back when I first got the monitor I think I was running a 4870.
Heck I was even still using my 9800 Pro when I got my first 1920*1200 monitor.

 

I can't speak for @digitalwanderer but I'm pretty FPS sensitive, and I hate running things at lower than native resolutions, so all of my monitors are 1080p. I do run some games higher than that via DSR, but generally, if a game runs less than 100ish FPS, I can't play it for extended periods of time. There are exceptions, of course. 2d games are fine, most fighting games as well (assuming they hit 60), and occasionally I'll suffer through it if it's just not achievable (CP2077), but I need the Hz or I get hurts. I have a 2070 Super, BTW. Not the highest end card, but I can usually get 100 fps in most games.

 

You can run games in lower resolution than the resolution of the display.

 

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