JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
I took advantage of Gamestop's $840 sale on the Samsung Odyssey G9. Thinking that I had a monitor I could use instead of two 1440p monitors and one that I could use for old school high refresh gaming. My main gaming would still be done on my C1 OLED hooked up to my 3080 12GB via HDMI 2.1.
I wanted to play modern ports of old games such as Unreal Tournament, Quake 2 (non-RTX), and old shooter using 3d-acceleration. The results so far have been an absolute fucking disaster. I've even tried to run them at generic 1440p resolution with black bars on the side. In the event that the game will start, even if I set it to a resolution the monitor can handle, much of the image is knocked off screen and I can't see things like the HUD. Unreal Tournament and the original unreal simply display a stretched screen regardless. I didn't look for mods, but that might help.
The absolute worst thing is that sometimes going into these games causes the screen to simply fade to black, where the only way to fix it is to unplug the G9 and plug it back in.
What other reasons am I pissed?
1. The only way I can take advantage of treating the 5120x1440 as two separate monitors is to use PiP mode, where you have to plug in an additional DP cable in the GPU. The downside of this is that it disables 240 Hz, and HDR. Two modes I want to be able to take advantage of. Going back and forth between the two modes often causes the signal to be lost, forcing me to once again, unplug the monitor. Im blaming Samsung for this, but I did have a similar issue with my Viotek, where sometimes it would lose signal and wouldn't return unless I unplugged it, so it could be an EVGA/nvidia issue. I assumed that there was a way in windows to create one large monitor into two virtual monitors via OS software, but WIndows seems to be missing such an obvious feature.
I don't necessarily NEED my desktop to be treated as two monitors, I really need it so that when I maximize my tabs (browsing, MS office, other work apps) that I only have them maximize on one half of the screen. There ARE apps such as EasyBox that do this very poorly and tediously, but won't allow you to maximize the apps without taking up the whole screen.
In short, I am pissed and will probably return this and go back to my 2 monitor + OLED C1 setup
Sorry for my rambling, but if anyone has suggestions for how I can make my system function in a way that doesn't piss me off, please let me know, because it feels like I wasted $900 on this POS.
I wanted to play modern ports of old games such as Unreal Tournament, Quake 2 (non-RTX), and old shooter using 3d-acceleration. The results so far have been an absolute fucking disaster. I've even tried to run them at generic 1440p resolution with black bars on the side. In the event that the game will start, even if I set it to a resolution the monitor can handle, much of the image is knocked off screen and I can't see things like the HUD. Unreal Tournament and the original unreal simply display a stretched screen regardless. I didn't look for mods, but that might help.
The absolute worst thing is that sometimes going into these games causes the screen to simply fade to black, where the only way to fix it is to unplug the G9 and plug it back in.
What other reasons am I pissed?
1. The only way I can take advantage of treating the 5120x1440 as two separate monitors is to use PiP mode, where you have to plug in an additional DP cable in the GPU. The downside of this is that it disables 240 Hz, and HDR. Two modes I want to be able to take advantage of. Going back and forth between the two modes often causes the signal to be lost, forcing me to once again, unplug the monitor. Im blaming Samsung for this, but I did have a similar issue with my Viotek, where sometimes it would lose signal and wouldn't return unless I unplugged it, so it could be an EVGA/nvidia issue. I assumed that there was a way in windows to create one large monitor into two virtual monitors via OS software, but WIndows seems to be missing such an obvious feature.
I don't necessarily NEED my desktop to be treated as two monitors, I really need it so that when I maximize my tabs (browsing, MS office, other work apps) that I only have them maximize on one half of the screen. There ARE apps such as EasyBox that do this very poorly and tediously, but won't allow you to maximize the apps without taking up the whole screen.
In short, I am pissed and will probably return this and go back to my 2 monitor + OLED C1 setup
Sorry for my rambling, but if anyone has suggestions for how I can make my system function in a way that doesn't piss me off, please let me know, because it feels like I wasted $900 on this POS.