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OT: New WQHD Philips Monitor

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Daiwilletti

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I grabbed a new monitor on a 50% off special. It has the same config as Majormagee's - 34" WQHD format. OMG what a difference! The colours are so vivid, the cockpit glass looks so different, the sea water actually looks like water. And that is just the colour settings straight out of the box.

I think my old LG 24" monitor must have slowly lost it's colour over time. When I got it, it seemed so much better than the monitor it replaced.

Now I can see how some gurus get their amazing screenshots - like Wiekneira and others.

Philips BDM3490UC/75. I am using a DisplayPort 1.2 lead connecting video card to monitor - the only way to get the modest 60Hz maximum refresh rate. Had a few problems with the speaker config, and am still trying to sort out the damage caused by unplugging the audio in cable whilst everything was powered up. Doh :dizzy:
 
Yes, a modern LED will drop to about 75% of its original efficiency in 5 years at typical operating temperatures. Recalibrating can help, but eventually you reach a limit where you need to start over with a new unit.
 
Ah yes built in redundancy. Gone are the days of things lasting forever. I remember my Mum, she rented a TV in about 1962. She still was renting it 15 years later. It was B&W and she must have paid for it several times over. I watched the Armstrong Moon Landing on that thing with its 14" screen. :biggrin-new:
Yes rented! That was a thing in 1960's Britain.
 
FOV?

Oh the joys of planned obsolescence :banghead:.

Hey Majormagee, what are your FOV settings in the Shaders 30 .ini? I found that flying my trusty Tiffie in my Stock Testbed, the cockpit view just seemed to expand to fill the new monitor when using FOV 40. I have upped FOV (circa 60?) and now there is a little bit to see to left and right of cockpit, but I think I will try something a bit more extreme, like FOV 80?
 
The FOV setting in d3d8.ini is only for the external view, and lower values work better for wide-screen monitors, as they narrow the view to produce a "normal" perspective. I currently have mine set to 30.

The in-cockpit FOV is set in the ViewUI.xml. I currently have mine set to FovScale="0.4" in an attempt to have the size of nearby objects appear the same if I switch between inside and outside views. This is not a universal fix as some cockpits are modeled at a different default view distance and that throws the scaling off.
 
me too need to change my very old monitor .....acer al1917 .....any suggestion ? i have see a monitor omen by hp 32 inch . it is good ?
 
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