Appreciate the details. But I’m consciously giving up a dual monitor setup. I don’t even use the second one anymore.

I agree ultrawide monitors aren’t as well supported, that’s a valid concern.

But the solution is not to buy a 4K monitor instead. That’s roughly twice the pixels to power with that GPU. That I know won’t be a balanced match.

Awesome, thanks!

29" 21:9 at 1080p has about the same pixel density as 24" 16:9 at 1080p, which is what I’m using right now.

M34WQ is the flat IPS one, right? I asked about it in this thread but my question was about the weong monitor.

On your M34WQ, how is the antiglare coating, in your opinion? Is it as grainy and distracting as people claim it to be?

Oh I’m by no means a monitor snob. Took me two years to realize my IPS monitor wasn’t true 8 bit, but FRC instead haha.

I checked again and that antiglare complaint is about the M34WQ - flat, IPS version of your monitor. I mixed them up.

Appreciate the insight.

The benefits outside of games are half the reason I’m considering an ultra wide. I’m considering a 29" 1080p as a lesser choice, but am considering it regardless. That’s because I don’t exactly use my current second monitor. I’m fine with downsizing, but I’m also happy with a flashy big wide 34" monitor.

That’s what I needed. Thank you. I’ll upgrade the GPU sooner or later (probably later), I knew what I was getting myself into with 8GB of VRAM.

On the note of G34WQC, I’m eyeing that monitor among a few others. Is the antiglare coating really as grainy as some people claim it to be? Supposedly makes text look fuzzy on bright backgrounds.

I’m fully prepared to have to play some games in 16:9 if that’s the case. I naturally want to get the full experience where possible, but I’m ready to compromise.

My potential concern with lowering the resolution is the fact that 1080p and 1440p don’t align that well with one another. Bigger issue with text than with games, but I haven’t had a chance to see that supposed issue with my own eyes.

While I am positive overall, I do not like that some bad habits from reddit are resurfacing here, mostly not being able to have different opinion without someone insulting you.

This is humans were talking about. Humans on the internet. This is inevitable and I wouldn’t specifically attribute this to former reddit users. You have this on Twitter, you have this on Instagram. The “my opinion is the only correct opinion” sentiment is prevalent everywhere today. Sadly.

Honestly, that’s kind of where need for speed is at. For all its faults (and there are many), if you don’t want to go towwrds the sim racing type, that could be your option.

Oh this looks like Forza Horizon all over again. They’re gonna have to do something actually different to sway people from Microsoft’s offering. Not saying it’s gonna be a bad game just for that, but its popularity will heavily depend on how much it’s gonna be its own game, rather than a clone, I believe.

For half off definitely give it a try. It’s long been patched and when i played it early this year my only problems were two times the game randomly closed.

Gun play is extremely satisfying, sound design included.

Driving is… better than in watch_dogs, worse than in GTA. But traveling through the world is a bit disappointing. Rich map with little life.

Side missions are fun and fill up the time nicely. The missions are creative and not necessarily “go from point A to point B while killing waves of enemies”, but those are there as well.