Yeah it sounds not bad. Main time i am simracing but I also play other common Games so i dont know if those black bars would bother me.
Have you a special monitor in mind which I could think about. ,? Thx
Sooo i watched and read some tests about 34" 21:9 monitors and my conclusion is - the only ones which are corresponding with my budget are those ones with 100hz only.
How about that? Is buying a monitor with 100hz today a no-go ? or is worth the extra ultra size ?
Sadly I can't list any fitting monitors for you. I could only suggest to invest more. It's so worth it! 100%!
The big difference is that with a "standard" fov like my 49°, you can see through the left side windows, behind the A pole and spot the apex.
With a normal 16:9 the left border would be simply the A pole and you wouldn't see anything of the apex until quite a bit later!
Same for the right side of course. You can see the apex a bit earlier and nail trailbraking it simply the turn in point a lot easier!
Also you see cars better that are left and right of yourself if they are alongside. You can see their noses!
About refresh rate:
Going from 60 to 85 hz is massively smoothing out the mouse in windows. Going to 100 hz makes it super smooth and awesome.
Going to 120 hz... I didn't really feel a difference anymore. Going to 144 hz I could feel that it became a bit better again, going to 165 hz didn't really change anything.
For me 100 hz vs 144 Hz is like the cherry on top.
But 60 to 100 hz is giving you this awesome "high refresh rate mouse feeling" or general smoothness of course.
A very important thing though:
It needs to be a freesync monitor that is gsync compatible!
There are forum excel sheets about gsync compatibility.
I ordered an Asus 165 hz 16:9 monitor first so I could test all this.
165 hz and 90 fps in the game without vsync, gsync or fast sync still gave a non-smooth experience!
Activating gsync though makes everything smooth at more than 75 fps.
60 to 75 fps already gives you a way smoother visual experience. Going up to 100 fps (limit of your potential monitor and my ultra wide) is awesome, but not so important.
Also you need the cpu and gpu to maintain these high fps all the time!
Long story short:
- 21:9 is mega awesome for sim racing!!
- 100 hz with freesync/gsync enabled is totally fine!
- I have the Dell aw31418dw. 100/120 hz ips 1440p. I mostly limit my fps to around 80 fps due to my gtx 1070...
Best money I ever spent on pc stuff!
- black borders: if you don't play in complete darkness, the not-used pixels will be fully black.
I don't care at all about it.
If I shut off all lights, I see some light bleeding on the edges and some green ips bleeding too. Also the black becomes gray then.
But if I keep some dimmed light on, it's no issue at all.
I'll upload some pictures later on!
About kite expensive ips monitors btw:
They have a more reflective coating. The picture clarity it a lot better! With cheaper monitors I always see some rainboy graining on white areas. No matter how sharp everything is, the costing makes it quite ugly and blurry.
The more expensive ips or VA monitors look a lot better in my opinion...
so i ask here.
