Re: News on the ROG Swift (PG278Q)
Posted: 31 Jul 2014, 10:05
Yep - each to their own.
For fast motion games, strollers, platformers, and FPS, the motion blur breaks immersion much more than TN color shift for me. IPS can become low-immersion garbage in these situations (for me and many Blur Busters followers). IPS becomes immersion buzzkill If you are very sensitive to motion blur as part of being immersed.
For programming/graphics design and slow games, the IPS displays definitely become preferable.
I just love the perfect motion effect of tearfree/stutterfree/blurfree of 120fps@120Hz strobed (VSYNC ON double buffered, to eliminate microstutters) on a powerful GPU that plays it flat out on many older games released cheap during Steam sales. Once you cap out in perfect framerate sync during fast motion, the immersion effect can be strong - far outweighing the TN shift for some of us. By a HUGE margin if you are more motion-sensitive than color-sensitive. (Good example IPS-lover testimonial who will never game non-strobed again, even settling for TN for VASTLY BETTER IMMERSION!). But for low framerates, IPS and GSYNC are the huge winners.
GSYNC beings the tearfree/stutterfree ability (to practically any playable framerate).
But only VSYNC ON (double buffered only) + strobing (or CRT) + super powerful GPU (combined with good engines like Source Engines) brings simultaneously blurfree/tearfree/stutterfree. Very hard to do this motion nirvana in newer games, though. At least until one can combine strobing+GSYNC simultaneously.
(For lower lag, competitively, I do use VSYNC OFF. But, when not playing competitively I prefer VSYNC ON for the immersion effect when optimized to avoid framerate slowdowns. LightBoost/strobing looks dramatically better when configure with near-perfect motion clarity exactly as smooth and immersive as a Sega arcade machine. For me, only reproducible on a strobed display and framerate-stroberate matching)
This is why the ROG PG278Q is close to a Holy Grail for some people. Extra resolution, GSYNC ability, strobe ability. I know, some will say: only it were IPS or OLED (zero lag rolling-scan)...
A lot of users will not care about blur. But this is the definitive Blur Busters Forum!
For fast motion games, strollers, platformers, and FPS, the motion blur breaks immersion much more than TN color shift for me. IPS can become low-immersion garbage in these situations (for me and many Blur Busters followers). IPS becomes immersion buzzkill If you are very sensitive to motion blur as part of being immersed.
For programming/graphics design and slow games, the IPS displays definitely become preferable.
I just love the perfect motion effect of tearfree/stutterfree/blurfree of 120fps@120Hz strobed (VSYNC ON double buffered, to eliminate microstutters) on a powerful GPU that plays it flat out on many older games released cheap during Steam sales. Once you cap out in perfect framerate sync during fast motion, the immersion effect can be strong - far outweighing the TN shift for some of us. By a HUGE margin if you are more motion-sensitive than color-sensitive. (Good example IPS-lover testimonial who will never game non-strobed again, even settling for TN for VASTLY BETTER IMMERSION!). But for low framerates, IPS and GSYNC are the huge winners.
GSYNC beings the tearfree/stutterfree ability (to practically any playable framerate).
But only VSYNC ON (double buffered only) + strobing (or CRT) + super powerful GPU (combined with good engines like Source Engines) brings simultaneously blurfree/tearfree/stutterfree. Very hard to do this motion nirvana in newer games, though. At least until one can combine strobing+GSYNC simultaneously.
(For lower lag, competitively, I do use VSYNC OFF. But, when not playing competitively I prefer VSYNC ON for the immersion effect when optimized to avoid framerate slowdowns. LightBoost/strobing looks dramatically better when configure with near-perfect motion clarity exactly as smooth and immersive as a Sega arcade machine. For me, only reproducible on a strobed display and framerate-stroberate matching)
This is why the ROG PG278Q is close to a Holy Grail for some people. Extra resolution, GSYNC ability, strobe ability. I know, some will say: only it were IPS or OLED (zero lag rolling-scan)...
A lot of users will not care about blur. But this is the definitive Blur Busters Forum!
