Super Ultrawide Monitors Were Made For MMORPGs - And Nothing Can Convince Me Otherwise | MMORPG.com

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Super Ultrawide Monitors Were Made For MMORPGs - And Nothing Can Convince Me Otherwise | MMORPG.com

Super ultrawide monitors allow for some incredible gaming experiences, but after reviewing one such panel, Bradford is convinced these were made specifically for MMOs.

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Tiller

lol you've gone into overtime selling this now

Joseph: Hey I found your wallet... btw I see you have lots of credit cards in there... you really should consider buying this cool monitor I'm hyped about. I mean, I know I talked about it just last week, but I'm not over it, and this is really the endgame monitor for AAA (MMOs).

I'm totally immersed with it...like enveloped in it.... I'm thinking a head strap for it so I can view the world all the time through it, which really would be so much better. I just can't get over how high quality it is, I've been missing out on so much without it; like that guy emoting next to me....see he thinks I can't see him, but guess what? I can because I'm rocking the ultra wide...I see everything....You can too...You know you want this monitor...here's a link to buy one and join a bigger world with wider eyes....

Not looking at this, I'm gonna go back to my game with my narrow vision monitor tyvm xD

Angrakhan

Yeah if all you do is live in one game and that game supports 32:9 go for it. The advantage of the extra peripheral vision cannot be overstated especially in shooters, space sims, driving games, and even isometric ARPGs.

However, outside of MMO's there's a lot of games that don't support 32:9 but do support 21:9. Trying to force those games into 32:9 often ends up with a fisheye lens effect that isn't very pleasant to look at. Also, keep in mind if you're wanting to run 32:9 at 4k resolution, you are going to need the absolute most expensive PC money can buy right now and even then you will see choppiness in the framerate. It's just way to many pixels for even a 4090RTX to push at max settings. The 5080 series will likely not cut it either. So you're going to have to run it at something less than max detail or less than max resolution to get playable framerates regardless of the fact you dropped $5k on your PC. It's literally 8k resolution, just stacked side by side.

My brother has a Sony 32:9 and he says that he'd rather stick with 21:9 for most things. He uses it primarily for his day job and for business it's amazing. However, a lot of games end up not working out so well on 32:9 at least for now.

slowz2secret

is so good to play on ultrawide monitor, i literally can have bunch of shit on wow and never get so much of addons and things arround the screen

Scot

I think a monitor that wide is giving you a distorted view, its so elongated compared to the height. You must have to turn you head to see the left and right sides of the screen which is not good for anything twitchy. But for a MMORPG I can see the appeal, still not for me but I do have a large screen.

ZenJelly

Ya, right......

peacemak3r

All the good EverQuest emulators beg to differ with this article. Terrible ultrawide compatibility--nevermind "Super" ultrawide.

Tiller

Scot said:

I think a monitor that wide is giving you a distorted view, its so elongated compared to the height. You must have to turn you head to see the left and right sides of the screen which is not good for anything twitchy. But for a MMORPG I can see the appeal, still not for me but I do have a large screen.

Wasn't it a few years ago some competitive fps players were buying and using old CRTs because of the lack of frame skipping. Wish I had kept my  old NEC would have been worth gold now.

edit: yep

Scot

Tiller said:

Scot said:

I think a monitor that wide is giving you a distorted view, its so elongated compared to the height. You must have to turn you head to see the left and right sides of the screen which is not good for anything twitchy. But for a MMORPG I can see the appeal, still not for me but I do have a large screen.

Wasn't it a few years ago some competitive fps players were buying and using old CRTs because of the lack of frame skipping. Wish I had kept my  old NEC would have been worth gold now.

edit: yep

I used a massive Cathode monitor until I got an Asus as good. This thing had a rear end that made me bring the desk back from the wall!

ultimateduck

I've had a curved 32:9 super ultra wide 4k for a little over a year now. Most games accommodate it just fine. The ones that don't just go into ultra wide mode with black bars on the side, or you can run in windows mode with other things open on the screen with it.

I see some odd claims.

1, it doesn't take a crazy computer to run it. I'm rocking a pretty old i7 8700/1080ti PC with it and I get great frame rates.

2, there is no distortion, just a wider FoV.

I play VR a lot and I had a hard time playing my flat monitor games with a standard monitor. The super ultrawide makes flat screen games tolerable.