Considering upgrading to a wide screen monitor, as it seems you can actually have a wider field of view with WoW. Currently I’m at a 24” monitor. I’ve seen some streams where the game field of view is noticeably wider, so obviously they’re using different resolution. Way I’m thinking about it is…wider view, more superior ability to navigate environment. Maybe someone can shoot down that theory tho.
Anyone know how wide my monitor should be to support the max field of view WoW can be played at? 27? 32?” Note I’m not trying to lessen the quality of graphics here. Sry for some technical ignorance on my end
For a wider FOV you just need a widescreen anything. The larger they are the better because if you go say 27" wide it will give you minimal real estate up and down, so something like 32" minimum.
As for any other specs, do whatever suits your budget, of course lower MS, higher refresh and all that is good, but for FOV, it’s about being wide.
This is 3440x1440 on a 34" ultrawide monitor. Not sure what WoW’s limitation is, but I’m sure it goes even wider than this – if your hardware can support it.
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Total screen size is less important than aspect ratio for that.
I have an LG 34 @ 1440p with 144hz refresh rate. Not terribly expensive about 750 USD.
I thought US would have been cheaper than AU, I can get that monitor for $688 AUD ($450 USD)
Probably hasn’t rolled back yet due to demand and inflation. No idea otherwise.
I play on a 32, it’s nice. Game runs fine on it,nice for work, love it tbh. Gigabyte.
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This is what I have for my PC currently. Personally, I like it. 27 inches didn’t sound like much until I got in the mail and set it up. It’s actually a decently sized screen. There’s also a 32 inch option.
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Mine is weird, it’s like 3857x2165 or some nonsense. For whatever reason the monitor doesn’t “fit” right so I have to calibrate it with the Nvidia drivers.
When I first got it I just ran it plug and play, but it had weird lines and the text looked messed up… that’s when I went to the display drivers to calibrate it and found the corner thing. Do this if you have weird lines in your game text and whatnot.
I like the utility of a laptop but I don’t like how small the screen is lol, I’m old and blind.
Yeah modern laptops are what? 17 inch 1440p screens?
It boggles my mind why such things exist. The fonts are incredibly small without going into Windows to blow everything up in scale.
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you’re looking for something with a 21:9 aspect ratio. or even 32:9 monitors is you want more.
Mine is a 21:9 and it is good. 16:9 is the normal ones.
Mines like 4k touchscreen, but then you have that horrible keyboard and touchpad, laptop touchpads give me the heebie geebies, idk what it is.
The mobility of a laptop makes work much better.
But you have to have a couple monitors at home, so I got the ultrawide and then I just throw some Netflix, YouTube, or stemio whatever up on the laptop screen and go hard on the widescreen. It’s actually pretty nice.
The only laptops I use are work related and issued that way. I’ve been a desktop main since I was 19.
I had a Sony while in college. I used it because I had Art studios and had to bring it with me. But I could have just loaded everything to disc (back then) and saved a thousand dollars.
Other than for work I think their utility is massively overrated. Maybe if you spend a lot of time on the road doing content for Youtube or whatever. Otherwise nah.
Yep, I have a curved monitor as well and the curved effect gives you a better FOV, after 2 years with this curved monitor I’ll never go back to a flat screen no matter how large it is.
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It took a couple of days for my eyes to adjust to the curve, but I really do like it.
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Ya it’s kinda freaky at first but once you adjust to it you’ll wonder why you didn’t do it sooner.
I live in the Caribbean but I bounce around a bit, hauling a tower around is just too much.
When I bought it (top of the line blade pro 17 2021) I bought it to make sure it will run stuff for a while, and don’t get me wrong. It’s nice, but if I was settled more I probably would have gone with a tower again. Being able to build in a couple soundcards is nice, vs carrying a bunch of stuff around.
You get way more bang for your buck with a tower for sure, and they last longer, but there’s no real portability, which is a fairlyhuge downside sometimes.
Eventually one day we will all have virtual computers accessed via AR I guess.
I never bought a curved one, I def regret that kinda. It just looks cool lol.
I’m using 32. I think any bigger and it’ll just be too big.
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