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Acer Predator X34P Ultrawide Curved Gaming Monitor (Computex 2016)

New Acer.
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100hz NATIVE (no overclocking needed)
Increased the curvature which is now 1900R
New Tilt and Swivel
Releases later this year Q4
No price yet.
 
does anyone know how to dsr games to 1440p on a 1080p ultra wide monitor? I've enabled dsr in the Nvidia control panel but have can only get weird resolutions.
 
Coolade said:
Acer Predator X34P Ultrawide Curved Gaming Monitor (Computex 2016)

New Acer.
53pl499.png


100hz NATIVE (no overclocking needed)
Increased the curvature which is now 1900R
New Tilt and Swivel
Releases later this year Q4
No price yet.
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Hopefully it's not more expensive than the current one

camequipped said:
does anyone know how to dsr games to 1440p on a 1080p ultra wide monitor? I've enabled dsr in the Nvidia control panel but have can only get weird resolutions.
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As far as I know dsr doesn't support ultra wide resolutions.
 
My goal right now is to find a Freesync, 3440x1440 ultrawide, that is color accurate for freelance video editing(not perfect but better than the TN panel I am using currently.)

I have found these two LG monitors,

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...m_re=ultrawide_monitor-_-24-025-326-_-Product

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...m_re=ultrawide_monitor-_-24-025-343-_-Product

But they are both curved. Is curved really better or worth the extra money? I don't personally care but cannot seem to find a freesync 1440p ultrawide monitor that isn't curved.
 
Haloid1177 said:
You gonna hook up something extra to it wil? Displayport is all you should need.
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even the Displayport is older spec-ed right? just wanted a lil bit more assurance of its "future-proofness" with its kind of price-tag

is there any other options to something of that level?
 
Thinking of replacing my PG278Q with either the X34 or the Asus PG348Q
As I would be gong from a TN to IPS I thought the colours would be better.

But according to TFT central my monitor has better colour accuracy than either of those monitors?
 
Pray For Death said:
As far as I know dsr doesn't support ultra wide resolutions.
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That's not true at all! I get up to 6880x2880 on my 3440x1440 monitor.

camequipped said:
does anyone know how to dsr games to 1440p on a 1080p ultra wide monitor? I've enabled dsr in the Nvidia control panel but have can only get weird resolutions.
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DSR gives you resolutions based on pixel counts. So just choose whatever comes the closest to what you want. I'm sure one of them will be close to 3440x1440.

Coolade said:
Acer Predator X34P Ultrawide Curved Gaming Monitor (Computex 2016)
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3440x1440....

"4K monitor"

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Acer also announced a new, 30in curved 21:9 monitor, the z301c: http://newsvideo.su/tech/video/104468

It's a VA panel that can be overclocked to 200hz and has a similar curve and design to the x34p. No price has been announced.

I want a 1440p ultrawide, but I just can't afford both the monitor and the system upgrades I need to adequately drive the monitor right now. I hope this z301c is a good alternative for those of us who don't have $900+ laying around, but given the pricing on the z35, I somewhat doubt that it will be a great buy.
 
jim2point0 said:
That's not true at all! I get up to 6880x2880 on my 3440x1440 monitor.


DSR gives you resolutions based on pixel counts. So just choose whatever comes the closest to what you want. I'm sure one of them will be close to 3440x1440.
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Thanks i'll give it a go tonight. I've been fiddling it around all week but kept getting weird resolutions.
 
Maybe seen any gtx 1070/1080 benchmarks at 3440x1440? 1070 looks good at 1440p but some games are hovering around 60fps so I'd like to know the impact of the extra pixels on an UW monitor.
 
CRUNT said:
So???? How did it turn out?
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-Bleed is very minimal, pic above is over exposed. Unnoticeable in normal use
-No scan lines
-100hz no issues
-No coil whine
-Coming from an Asus PG279Q I definitely notice a difference between 165hz and 100hz. The 27" Asus feels WAY faster.


Must of got lucky here, near perfect panel. Oddly enough the monitor or the stand is uneven as the monitor isn't level, tilts to the left and no way to fix it or adjust it outside of a VESA mount :\
 
Haloid1177 said:
Ordered the X34 from Best Buy. Kinda nervous about issues but for $450 I'll give it a shot. Can always return it.
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$450?!? Hell of a deal.

I have to say, playing games with a 1080 and the x34 is the greatest gaming experience I've ever had by a long shot. I am so excited to just go home and play the Witcher 3 more because of how smooth and gorgeous it looks. Going Ultrawide with G-Sync has honestly been worth the $1200 I spent on that monitor.

I've had a 144hz 1440p. I looked good. I sold it because the ultra wide experience is absolutely stunning in comparison. Everyone who has seen it in action says the samething. Thanks to everyone in this thread for all the recommendations and honest reviews. The small amount of short comings are nothing compared to massive list of positives.
 
Guys help me out. If you have a 1440p (16:9) monitor, can you play games at a 1080p (21:9) ratio with black bars on the top? Do games let you do that?

I'm basically trying to decide if I should get a 21:9 1080p monitor or a 1440p 16:9 monitor. A 1440p monitor would be superior for productivity stuff (coding), but I'd still like the 21:9 ratio for games that support it. I don't think I want to do a 21:9 1440p monitor due to the price increases and the necessary video card to run it.
 
bachikarn said:
Guys help me out. If you have a 1440p (16:9) monitor, can you play games at a 1080p (21:9) ratio with black bars on the top? Do games let you do that?

I'm basically trying to decide if I should get a 21:9 1080p monitor or a 1440p 16:9 monitor. A 1440p monitor would be superior for productivity stuff (coding), but I'd still like the 21:9 ratio for games that support it. I don't think I want to do a 21:9 1440p monitor due to the price increases and the necessary video card to run it.
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Yes. It's possible by adding the respective resolution to the NVIDIA Control panel, or whatever the equivalent is on AMD. Then make sure the scaling is set to not stretch the image.
 
bachikarn said:
Guys help me out. If you have a 1440p (16:9) monitor, can you play games at a 1080p (21:9) ratio with black bars on the top? Do games let you do that?

I'm basically trying to decide if I should get a 21:9 1080p monitor or a 1440p 16:9 monitor. A 1440p monitor would be superior for productivity stuff (coding), but I'd still like the 21:9 ratio for games that support it. I don't think I want to do a 21:9 1440p monitor due to the price increases and the necessary video card to run it.
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Yeah, you can run 2560x1080 21:9 on a 1440 16:9 monitor. Scaling, black bars etc depends on how you set it in nvidia control panel or on your monitor osd.
Edit: beat
 
Out of curiosity, how does everyone here browse the web in ultrawide? Here's how I use Chrome most of the time, but I'm curious about how everyone else uses the space (or neglects to). I have the larger window that's aligned to the left sized so that I can watch videos maximized while I can also read something on the more narrow right side window.

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I've had my monitor for little over a year now, and I feel like I'm still learning how to best use the space at my disposal.
 
Weevilone said:
I'm curious what everyone is using to drive 3440x1440. Anyone upgrading to NV 1070/1080, or perhaps SLI?
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Single GTX 980 here. I'll probably upgrade there's a 1080 TI. 1070 is kind of tempting, but I can't see any titles coming this year that I warrant an upgrade. Games that I really want to run at max settings that is.
 
jim2point0 said:
2x 980TIs in SLI. I'd prefer a stronger single card, but the 1080 isn't enough. Maybe the 1080Ti? We'll see...
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You must be pushing a pretty high refresh. A single 1080 looks to me like it does pretty well at this resolution. It's be a bit of a setback in games that scale well, given your Ti's.
 
kanuuna said:
Out of curiosity, how does everyone here browse the web in ultrawide? Here's how I use Chrome most of the time, but I'm curious about how everyone else uses the space (or neglects to). I have the larger window that's aligned to the left sized so that I can watch videos maximized while I can also read something on the more narrow right side window.

ultrawidebrowsing.jpg


I've had my monitor for little over a year now, and I feel like I'm still learning how to best use the space at my disposal.
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I always have my browser snapped to the right like that, but also have my taskbar vertical on the right side. You got more horizontal space to spare than vertical. It also helps with playing 16:9 games in b/l windowed, they can take all of the 1440 height without the taskbar getting in the way.
 
Blitzhex said:
I always have my browser snapped to the right like that, but also have my taskbar vertical on the right side. You got more horizontal space to spare than vertical. It also helps with playing 16:9 games in b/l windowed, they can take all of the 1440 height without the taskbar getting in the way.
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Good point. I think I'll give that a try.
 
So I got my X34 in today. After running through checking for known issues, the only thing I have is backlight bleed. It's barely noticeable in Doom so I'm pretty okay with it as a whole right now. I've got 45 days if I want to return so I'll put it through its paces.
 
Weevilone said:
You must be pushing a pretty high refresh. A single 1080 looks to me like it does pretty well at this resolution. It's be a bit of a setback in games that scale well, given your Ti's.
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60hz. I've found that unless a game supports SLI, then a single 980TI won't cut it. And in The Witcher 3, if you actually want to increase the draw distance for grass even a little bit, you're going to get drops below 60.

And then there's downsampling. I do like to downsample. So yeah, I want a more powerful single card.
 
Durante said:
That's well argued. Actually discourages me from getting a (heavily) curved screen.
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IMO, there should be a system-wide way to define the curvature, viewing distance and size of the display (and display positions + angles in a multi-display setup!) so the GPU could do perspective correction for 3D rendering.
 
Pray For Death said:
How long is it before we can expect to see HDR 21:9 displays?

I was reading this thread, and now I'm wondering if I should wait before dropping $1.5K on a screen.
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They haven't been announced or even teased yet. In display-land, that generally means it's going to take more than a year. The cycle of displays getting developed and produced is really slow.

Computer display sized OLED panels probably won't be cheap enough for a good while for manufacturers to bother making gaming displays out of them, but that would be the fastest way for HDR to become available. The other tech TVs use to achieve HDR, locally dimming backlights, seems like it could be a lot of trouble to design and manufacture into these smaller displays. This might actually take so long that OLED will become affordable before that and then there's no point.

I believe that for a long time, the best way to get 21:9 with HDR will be to buy a high end OLED TV and just use a 21:9 custom resolution. The letterboxing should be very inoffensive since apart from reflections OLED black is absolute black.
 
Well my U3411w just seemingly shit the bed this morning. Flash of colored lines, then blackness. Can't even get the menus to appear anymore. And I know it's not my GPU because things work flawlessly on my old U2711. Thankful for Dell's good replacement policy, seems they'll be sending me a brand new one. Kind of glad actually because the one I got had really bad backlight bleed too, more then the normal. Momentary stress has been relieved.
 
Water said:
They haven't been announced or even teased yet. In display-land, that generally means it's going to take more than a year. The cycle of displays getting developed and produced is really slow.

Computer display sized OLED panels probably won't be cheap enough for a good while for manufacturers to bother making gaming displays out of them, but that would be the fastest way for HDR to become available. The other tech TVs use to achieve HDR, locally dimming backlights, seems like it could be a lot of trouble to design and manufacture into these smaller displays. This might actually take so long that OLED will become affordable before that and then there's no point.

I believe that for a long time, the best way to get 21:9 with HDR will be to buy a high end OLED TV and just use a 21:9 custom resolution. The letterboxing should be very inoffensive since apart from reflections OLED black is absolute black.
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Thanks for the detailed explanation, makes a lot more sense now
 
jim2point0 said:
They all do.

I went through 3 of them before saying "fuck it" and just settling on the 3rd.
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Ah, good to know. I know they'll always have bleed but good to know that these U3411w's have more then normal. I do hope this replacement is a bit better then the old one, but certainly won't be bothered if it's the same.
 
So I actually had some free time last night to play some games on my new monitor. First up was GTAV, which was an absolute fantastic experience playing in 21:9, felt way more cinematic and just looked better (I know it didn't but still). The other game I tried was Doom, and it was a little mixed. At first I thought the image was stretched because it just looked off to me, but the settings were right, and after awhile I realized it was just the difference in screen size screwing with me. But I did end up getting a headache when playing, so that was strange. I could tell a slight difference in the refresh rate from my ROG Swift at 144hz, but nothing major. Want to try Soma tonight and maybe Arkham Knight (though reports seem to conflict on its support).
 
Haloid1177 said:
So I actually had some free time last night to play some games on my new monitor. First up was GTAV, which was an absolute fantastic experience playing in 21:9, felt way more cinematic and just looked better (I know it didn't but still). The other game I tried was Doom, and it was a little mixed. At first I thought the image was stretched because it just looked off to me, but the settings were right, and after awhile I realized it was just the difference in screen size screwing with me. But I did end up getting a headache when playing, so that was strange. I could tell a slight difference in the refresh rate from my ROG Swift at 144hz, but nothing major. Want to try Soma tonight and maybe Arkham Knight (though reports seem to conflict on its support).
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Doom does stretch the player model as fov increases. Try setting fov to minimum in the settings. There was also a fix linked on the previous page I think.
 
Symphonic said:
There any patches/mods for Overwatch support? Kinda disappointed in that one.
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Unfortunately not. The thread is still going on blizzard forums but it's been left as it would ruin the ui / visuals blah blah.

The closest you'll get is stretching the image. So if you've got a nvidia GPU you can set the game to 2560x1440 and use the scale option to scale to full screen.
 
Haloid1177 said:
So I actually had some free time last night to play some games on my new monitor. First up was GTAV, which was an absolute fantastic experience playing in 21:9, felt way more cinematic and just looked better (I know it didn't but still). The other game I tried was Doom, and it was a little mixed. At first I thought the image was stretched because it just looked off to me, but the settings were right, and after awhile I realized it was just the difference in screen size screwing with me. But I did end up getting a headache when playing, so that was strange. I could tell a slight difference in the refresh rate from my ROG Swift at 144hz, but nothing major. Want to try Soma tonight and maybe Arkham Knight (though reports seem to conflict on its support).
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Flawless Widescreens fix made my whole doom experience 100x better. Took away a lot of the gun resizing issues.
 
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