So... ultrawides... is it still a PITA?

[Kevin_Walter]

I've wanted an ultrawide for a long time, but it seems like every single game that comes out has issues with support and either requires waiting for patches if the community is loud enough, or mods to make it work.

So just how much of a pain is it playing with an ultrawide these days? Has it gotten better, or is it still a dumpster fire of lax support and frustration?

Also... anyone recommend a good ultrawide with a nice freesync range?

[Jurrunio]

These days ultrawide shouldn't see any big problems, though there are differences like UI being more spread out for example (since they are programmed to hug the corners)

[dizmo]

Must have been quite a while since you tried. I've had one for well over a year and it's been perfectly fine. 

[Bobbyman5506]

if you have that much of a problem with it get an OLED one where you barely even notice the black pixels (if that even exists)

[Statik]

I haven’t played a large variety of games with my UW, but the only one that has issues and won’t run it is Dark Souls II. Other than that, it’s fantastic. I’ll never go back.

[norknork1]

I curently have 34" 60hz ultrawide and never had any problems the only notable game giving me headache was fallout 76 but lets be honest that game was bad from the start i do want to note that recently i upgraded to 1080ti and so for im going to either buy 1080p 144hz or 1440p 144hz ultrawide monitor in a week or so  

[SkilledRebuilds]

Ive found mainly the game or so that don't bode well are from the smaller studios and you can understand why its missing in those situations...maybe money and time concerns.

 

Sometimes not.. didnt Blops3 have a stretched UI instead of the proper aspect?

 

I took the chance for UW,.. and while I still alternate between 16 and 21 by 9, its pretty good compatability wise IMO.

 

Funny though to me even JUST 75hz is a night and day difference to 60hz. (Swinging left and right mouse direction back n forth)

My range is 48-75 but really it feels like 52-75hz as I maybe still see n feel it at 48-50fps

[dubdub]

Pretty much every game supports ultrawide monitor's.  Overwatch is 1 game that supports it ,but it cuts off the sides with black bars  They say it's to much of advantage. I haven't experienced any real issues gaming with ultrawide monitor's.

[caldrin]

Have an acer x34p and tell you the truth most games support ultrawide out of the box these days.. there are some annoying ones that did not for whatever reason..  The new Mech Commander type game comes to mind cant remember what i was called now haha.. 

Overwatch was another at release that did not support it, it does kind of now but I think it just stretches the image to fir instead of actually have a proper ultrawide mode. Think they did not want to let people with ultrawide have an advantage. 

But they are an exception instead of the rule really.. Ultrawide is well supported these days.