LG29UM68-P

[dstlny]

Hello, so i bought this monitor a few months back, and used it with a regular HDMI 2.0 cable. Works perfectly, though i never was able to get the 75Hz refresh rate of it working stably - anything that was close to 75hz, skips frames. I've seen multiple reports that the 75Hz just isn't true for this monitor (even over DP it skips frames), and that you're lucky if you actully get anything close to what's advertised. And yes, i've already i've used both the Nvidia Control panel to force the Referesh Rate (since it shows up in in that) as well as CRU (which also shows 2560x1080 @ 75hz). Am i shit out of luck here? Did i get fucked by LG? lol

 

Editr: CRU does also show that every resolution before the advertised resolution, supports a Refresh of 75Hz. Funny thing is that with DP connected you can enable Freesync on the OSD, which seems to then give windows the option of displaying the 75Hz refrseh natively selectable - still shit out of luck though, even then it skips frames. Quite literally cannot get anything past 60Hz.

[Princess Luna]

I have one of those lying around, I was successful in locking it at 80hz perfectly stable using Display Port and the use of nVidia custom resolution/refresh rate on the nVidia's control panel.

[Phentos]

I own a very similar monitor (29UM67-P) and mine skips frames horribly if the refresh rate is set even 1hz above the default 60. Using CRU didn't help. 

 

Only way it won't skip frames is if you take advantage of the Freesync mode with an actual AMD GPU. When I had my old R9 Fury, it was smooth sailing at 75hz.

 

Currently (slowly) saving up for a proper 3440x1440 Gsync monitor though to go along with my upcoming HEDT build.

[dstlny]

4 minutes ago, Phentos said:

I own a very similar monitor (29UM67-P) and mine skips frames horribly if the refresh rate is set even 1hz above the default 60. Using CRU didn't help. 

 

Only way it won't skip frames is if you take advantage of the Freesync mode with an actual AMD GPU. When I had my old R9 Fury, it was smooth sailing at 75hz.

 

Currently (slowly) saving up for a proper 3440x1440 Gsync monitor though to go along with my upcoming HEDT build.

Exactly this. Frameskips horribly if set even 1Hz over 60Hz. Like, i can enable Freesync in the OSD as well.. which windows then shows up as being able to display at 75Hz, but quite literally half the frames it recieves are skipped. Sadly thought i'm not in a situation where i can save up for a Gsync display, or a better one at all, which sucks.

[Phentos]

Just now, dstlny said:

Exactly this. Frameskips horribly if set even 1Hz over 60Hz. Like, i can enable Freesync in the OSD as well.. which windows then shows up as being able to display at 75Hz, but quite literally half the frames it recieves are skipped.

Yup, I've tried every proposed solution I could find but no dice.

 

60hz is fine for my gaming needs though, so it's not that big of a deal to me.

[dstlny]

1 minute ago, Phentos said:

Yup, I've tried every proposed solution I could find but no dice.

 

60hz is fine for my gaming needs though, so it's not that big of a deal to me.

It's just annoying that they advertised the refreshrate and then seemingly locked it behind Freesync and AMD cards. 60Hz is decent right now, but the fact i could have had that extra smoothness if the panel would actually work at the given refreshes and wouldn't throw up a hissy fit whenever it was 1Hz higher, is just annoying.

[Phentos]

LG doesn't make the best panels out there, and the monitors we have aren't exactly high tier products. We get what we pay for. 

 

That being said I still love my monitor because ultrawide is amazing and actual 8 bit color depth is very nice.