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IanHenry

IanHenry

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As my PC monitor has just gone west, and I'm confronted with seemingly a million options, I was wondering how important the refresh rate was for flight simulation? I've taken a fancy to one of Dell's, but the refresh rate is 6ms but most of the others that I've looked at are 1MS. I know this is a big deal for gamers but does it matter that much for P3D and DCS?



Thanks,
Ian
 
Ian, I have never experienced tearing of smearing with any monitor in FSX or PD3. This includes old CRT monitors. I doubt you will have a problem with the Dell.
 
Hi
You may find with the DELL monitor is an IPS panel. Particularly if the response time is 6 ms
From my understanding the IPS panels, give better color and much better viewing angles but are slower in response time.

Personal I have 2 DELL ultra sharp (IPS) monitors a U3415 and a U2412 and love them both. I find them excellence for P3D etc. However I don't plat any games that could be adversely effected by the Lowery response time.

You may also need to consider that IPS panels are also a little more expensive.

Best wishes
Bob
 
I have a Dell U3415 and I'll second how IPS is great. No issues with P3D, or action/shooter games for that matter.

Even 6ms if fast enough to avoid issues with modern games - at 60Hz, the monitor only refreshes every 16.x ms anyway. The only time that refresh rate really offers a big advantage in modern gaming is with the new super-fast 120Hz or 240Hz monitors. Those are cool for competitive gamers who want to turn down all the details on shooters and try to use frame-rate for an advantage, but when was the last time you saw P3D hit120 fps? :)
 
I have a ASUS ProArt 27" IPS monitor @2.5k resolution, which I mainly bought for graphic design work because of it's excellent color properties (100%+ sRGB gamut coverage). It is not exactly a monitor that is rated for 3d gaming with it's 5ms grey to grey latency, but I never ever experienced any problems with it.
My old monitor, a Samsung BX2450L, is sitting next to it as a secondary screen. They are worlds apart in picture quality, I must say. Even though I never really felt that the Samsung was bad, until I saw the difference with my own eyes.

Cheers,
Mark
 
Many thanks everyone for all the replies, and you've certainly given me food for thought, I'll check out the IPS ones.



Thanks again,
Ian
 
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