How practical are 32:9 displays?

[frostdiamond]

I get that many games support 21:9 (though I still strongly prefer 16:9), but really, beside racing games and perhaps 1 or 2 more genre, would why anyone want to play games on 32:9?

I've seen videos / screenshots of games, say the Witcher 3, running on 32:9. Pictures on the left and right end are so distorted, it doesn't even look right.

So you get a 32:9 for productive which might make sense for some, but how would you game on such a screen? Play in 16:9 with huge black bars on both sides?

This screen is nice

https://www.amazon.ca/SAMSUNG-Odyssey-Monitor-Processor-FreeSync/dp/B0C48D7Q22/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=3CPEE4COWYU6R&keywords=pg38uq&qid=1689797062&sprefix=pg38uq%2Caps%2C165&sr=8-1-spons&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.fe67de69-a579-4370-9bc8-5e38fc5a3bcc&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1

Despite Samsung's highly questionable quality, but as mentioned above, I'm just wondering how how practical / useful it, for GAMING.

[nullable]

It depends I suppose. There's a lot you can do with them though. You wouldn't necessarily have to run all games in 32:9. You could split the screen into regions and run multiple desktops, not all the uses are necessarily gaming either.

So practical for everyone? Probably not. And if you have to ask maybe you're one of the probably-nots. (Don't worry I don't think it's practical for me either). But ultimately it's something customers have to decide for themsleves.

[frostdiamond]

You could, though I'm not sure how many people would be playing games in 1 part of the screen while browsing on another. Just because one could doesn't mean one would.

Anyway, I was just wondering if I'm in the majority or minority in terms of questioning the practicality of 32:9 screens.

[MoonC A T]

引用自 frostdiamond：

You could, though I'm not sure how many people would be playing games in 1 part of the screen while browsing on another. Just because one could doesn't mean one would.

Anyway, I was just wondering if I'm in the majority or minority in terms of questioning the practicality of 32:9 screens.

I would. I often play single player games on my regular oriented monitor while streaming UEFA or other Football games on my other. If you look at my setup in the picture below such a setup would definitely benefit from a 32:9

I would need to relocate my PC but that's easy. I'd much rather have one monitor rather than 2.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3002759383

[Tiberius]

?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3006928107

Distortion only happens if you set a very narrow fov in the option

The only impractical part of 32:9 monitor is it's expensive af

[nullable]

引用自 frostdiamond：

You could, though I'm not sure how many people would be playing games in 1 part of the screen while browsing on another. Just because one could doesn't mean one would.

Well what I meant is you could play games in 16:9 or some other aspect ratio with black bars on the sides. I should have clarified that before ranging into productivity options of using screen regions or some other multi-desktop option.

引用自 frostdiamond：

Anyway, I was just wondering if I'm in the majority or minority in terms of questioning the practicality of 32:9 screens.

You're in the majority of people who probably feel it's not practical.

You're probably in the minority of existing users or people who think/know it's practical.

[Rod]

Show me 32.9 recorded with no fisheye or stretch at the extreme edges first. Ive yet to see it the G9 OLED in particular is a monitor i like but watching videos i see that edge stretch/fisheye.

[Agent]

A lot of new titles still don't support it and majority old definitely won't have it. So is it worth it? If you enjoy gaming with black bars, yeah.

[Tiberius]

引用自 Permanent bulking phase：

A lot of new titles still don't support it and majority old definitely won't have it. So is it worth it? If you enjoy gaming with black bars, yeah.

This is not true at all

[PopinFRESH]

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