wiseude wrote: ↑Yesterday, 11:39
Do you guys think it’s worth buying this monitor mainly for single-player games like Baldur’s Gate 3, Total War: Warhammer3 ,Space marine 2 and Crimson Desert?
I really like the clarity that the monitor offers and that it can make lower fps look like higher fps. My main concern is that I’m pretty sure I won’t be able to push high FPS in these games with my current rig (RTX 3080 / i9-9900K).
A few corncerns I have are:
-I’ve also heard that with Pulsar, you’re more likely to notice frametime spikes. How true is that in practice? Would I actually notice them more at around 120–144 FPS compared to my current monitor?
Pulsar and low persistence modes for displays
are not a feature to improve your scores in competetive games. This is for how much fun you get from playing. How much you can feel the speed in racing games, how much you can appreciate movement in fighting games, how much of the world's beautiful vistas you can enjoy instead of seeing a blurry soup.
I can't stand this idiotic narrative about the normal image in motion being only for PROs somehow and for e-sports - it's been invented by some idiots who never experienced CRT gaming before and don't know jack s... about what they're talking about.
Don't listen to them!
Especially in Baldur's Gate you will see a huge improvement. The top-down camera means lots of "scrolling". This will improve the visuals for you more than upgrading your 3080 to 5090.
But yes. 9900K must go. It will drastically limit the monitor's potential, as you won't be able to reach non-flickering modes. You said you're allergic to flicker so that means ULMB 60Hz is not for you and 70-80fps will be far from crystal clear. You need more and if you'd like to play new games, you'd actually want a CPU twice as fast as the fastest CPU in existence - so my advice is get the monitor and keep upgrading your CPU whenever you can get anything 25% faster than what you had. So 9800X3D now, and then Zen 6 X3D or Zen 7 X3D if Zen 6 fails to deliver. Don't look at core counts, these do not matter and likely won't matter in the distant future.
In fact, if I were you, I'd postpone further play in BG3 until you get 9800x3D CPU. This will bump up your FPS easily above flicker level. I hope you'll be able to use ULMB 120Hz. And if not, more fps = better with Pulsar. At least when we talk 65fps vs 150fps and this is possible between 9900K and 9800X3D.
There is a lot of game genres you never had a chance to enjoy if it's your first monitor capable of displaying motion correctly, so don't worry. Just play the oldies until you can afford CPU upgrade. I strongly recommend genres you thought you don't like. Give them 1h or more and see if anything changes. I recommend side-scrollers. Just disable motion blur and other stupid filters if there are any and enjoy. Ori should run fine on 9900K and it looks awesome. Good enough to make you want to retry after dying 10th time at the same place, because the backgrounds are just very nice. If you don't mind anime stylistics, Hades and Hades 2 might be good and it's another game which should run 100 or even 200+fps on 9900K.
If you never played cart racing games of other games with not so much speed but lots of turning, give those a try. With clear motion you don't lose the sense of speed when going through a sharp turn and when moving through tree branches, the sense of speed will make you feel the wind
Pure is a good example. A game from like 2008. Just disable postprocess and enjoy. I loved this game. Then tried playing it on normal projector for 10 minutes and there was literally no fun left in there. There was "wow" at the start, but as soon as I gained speed, it was as if somebody dulled the game to something completely boring. In the end - I prefered playing on a 19" CRT instead 120" projector screen.
And about frametime spikes being visible - yes, when you remove the flaw that covers the smaller flaw - you will notice that smaller flaw.
Just get rid of that smaller flaw or play something else, which doesn't annoy you with frame drops.
