Just check out the clip above of Destiny 2 to see what I mean. If you're playing a shooter or an open-world game especially, the added field of view you get without having to mess about with sliders is unreal.
It's not a case of the regular image just getting stretched it's like when you see a movie in IMAX.
More and more of today's PC games natively support ultrawide resolutions as well. Your work and your workspace alike are less cluttered.
And by going ultrawide over multiples you only have one thing on your desk. Why squint at a tiny timeline in Adobe Premiere when you could stretch it out across a 49-inch super ultrawide display? When it comes to screen space, you can never have too much. You have so much more space to have multiple windows open without having to alt-tab between them, which is the only reason I ever used multiple monitors in the first place.įor creatives, too, ultrawides are perfect. It wraps around you like a little cocoon of PC loveliness. Some curves are steeper than others, but even the gentler ones suck you into whatever is in front of you. Curved is definitely the way forward, especially as you start to go beyond 21:9 into ratios like 32:10, as I have, on larger monitors. You also have a much wider choice of curved ultrawide monitors than you might have even a couple of years ago. Not all ultrawides are the same, but increasingly they're designed to be good at gaming as well as being a regular PC monitor. Within about three minutes I knew that it would be impossible to go back. Multiple monitors are fairly easy to set up, but no matter how thin the bezels, there's always a join, and whether I use a multi-monitor stand or not, my desk has been completely filled.Ĭolleagues here at Windows Central have raved about ultrawide monitors in the past, and so as it's the deal-hunting season and I'm in the middle of my fifth office re-organization of the year, I took the plunge. So I had fewer available outlets for additional hardware, like my consoles or even my laptop charger, as well as increased cable mess under my desk. While I loved the additional screen space these monitors gave me for my workflow, there were more negatives than positives.įor one, I had to use two or three power outlets and two or three DisplayPort/HDMI cables from my PC. For years now I've been using at least two monitors on my desk, sometimes three.
I've only recently made the jump to an ultrawide monitor, taking advantage of an early Black Friday deal myself - specifically the electriQ 43-inch curved monitor.