ViperDriver Posted December 25, 2017 Posted December 25, 2017 Dear Pilots After reading some posts in this forum I am also thinking about buying a new monitor. As I see many advantages with the ultrawide monitors (there are some very nice youtube videos with 34" monitors) I would like to know if there is someone who has any experience with a 38" ultrawide monitor. I read in the internet that the screen of a 38" is about 24% bigger than the screen of a 34" monitor. However the price of a 38" is up to 500 € higher. Is a 38" the higher price worth? Unfortunately there aren't any videos on youtube showing DCS on a 38" screen. ViperDriver
Rudel_chw Posted December 25, 2017 Posted December 25, 2017 At that prices, I'd rather consider an Oculus Headset ... unless your PC is not powerful enough for virtual reality. We are currently at a technological break, with monitors being the old way to play, and VR being the new way .... In my opinion, its better to embrace the new than keep fiddling with the old :) Best regards For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600 - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia RTX2080 - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB
Buckeye Posted December 25, 2017 Posted December 25, 2017 I paid ~$1300 for my 1440p curved Dell 34", the first of the curved 34" IPS 1440p monitors to come out. At the time, I thought it was the best $1300 I had ever spent. Now I have an Oculus Rift and that $1300 monitor is essentially used to watch Windows boot to my desktop so I can open DCS in VR. My point? Don't waste your money, just buy a VR headset instead (unless you have a compelling reason to use your monitor, like another game you play quite often, etc). Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Rig: SimLab P1X Chassis | Tianhang Base PRO + Tianhang F-16 Grip w/ OTTO Buttons | Custom Throttletek F/A-18C Throttle w/ Hall Sensors + OTTO switches and buttons | Slaw Device RX Viper Pedals w/ Damper Tactile: G-Belt | 2x BK LFE + 1x BK Concert | 2x TST-429 | 1x BST-300EX | 2x BST-1 | 6x 40W Exciters | 2x NX3000D | 2x EPQ304 PC/VR: Somnium VR1 Visionary | 4090 | 12700K
ViperDriver Posted December 26, 2017 Author Posted December 26, 2017 Thx for your answers guys. I forget to mention that I still don‘t want use. VR. As I play other games (GTA V, some racing games and flight sims) I prefer gaming and flying with a monitor. I also use my PC for office and surfing.
exray Posted December 26, 2017 Posted December 26, 2017 I've got a 34" curved 3440x1440 monitor for DCS and personally I wouldn't go any bigger, especially not for that much more money. At 2 feet away the screen fills your field of vision nicely and for both gaming and non gaming applications, looking to the corners is already to me on the very edge of comfortable. I wouldn't want it any wider to be honest. 34" is plenty. No desire at all to mess with the current gen of VR. i7-4790k @ 4.4GHZ, 32GB G. Skill Ripjaws DDR-2133 RAM, EVGA GTX 1080Ti FTW3, Crucial M500 SSD, VKB MCG, TWCS Throttle, MFG Crosswind, TrackIR 5
Deezle Posted December 26, 2017 Posted December 26, 2017 I have a 34" 1440p monitor and I had a Rift CV1, I still have the monitor. I was not satisfied with the Rift in it's current state. YMMV. Intel 9600K@4.7GHz, Asus Z390, 64GB DDR4, EVGA RTX 3070, Custom Water Cooling, 970 EVO 1TB NVMe 34" UltraWide 3440x1440 Curved Monitor, 21" Touch Screen MFD monitor, TIR5 My Pit Build, Moza AB9 FFB w/WH Grip, TMWH Throttle, MFG Crosswinds W/Combat Pedals/Damper, Custom A-10C panels, Custom Helo Collective, SimShaker with Transducer
Xordus Posted December 26, 2017 Posted December 26, 2017 I have a 34" 1440p Samsung CF791. I also have the Rift. The Rift is great fun for flying but terrible for combat since you can't spot/ identify aircraft. The monitor on the other hand is amazing. The curve is perfect, the colors are deep, the resolution is spot on for DCS (any higher and you can't see the pixel of a long-range aircraft). I don't see a good reason to pay for a bigger ultrawide considering how well 34" fills your vision. I think it's the best option of any display for DCS. As for VR, if you don't mind not be able to spot aircraft besides seeing a giant dot because pixels are so big, go for it. VR is incredible and one day it will absolutely be the way to play DCS. Right now its only the way to experience flying, combat operations are nearly impossible. People will tell you otherwise but they all know how terrible and unrecognizable other aircraft appear outside of a few hundred ft...
Ranma13 Posted December 28, 2017 Posted December 28, 2017 As for VR, if you don't mind not be able to spot aircraft besides seeing a giant dot because pixels are so big, go for it. VR is incredible and one day it will absolutely be the way to play DCS. Right now its only the way to experience flying, combat operations are nearly impossible. This is exactly how I feel. The feeling of presence is something that can't be explained with words alone, and you will become a better pilot simply because everything is scaled correctly and your head movements are tracked accurately. However, right now VR only good for flying around. I don't doubt there are people out there who are proficient combat simmers in VR, but it's definitely a gimped experience compared to an actual monitor. Especially for aircraft like the Ka-50 where you spent the vast majority of your time looking forward, the additional resolution that a monitor provides is much better for actual combat ops.
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