I’m using flat 27’ monitor right now but thinking about change for future. My question is will ultrawide can make your eyes tired faster compared to smaller inches? Judging from vidoes that’s pretty long area to move your eyes. Expecting honest answers who play on ultrawide because asking for a disabled person with health issues who enjoys WoW. Thanks in advance.
Anything ‘medical’ such as eye strain etc is solely down to the individual, tho I found that curved monitors are nothing more than a cash grab, and no better than normal monitors, tho as i said, its all individual
I used Ultrawide for 2 years and went back to normal resolutions. Ultrawide is a big gimmick and it merely looks good in pictures. If you care about posting your computer setup on Instagram then buy it but if you want it for gaming then don’t bother.
And also, nobody “turns their head” to look at the game. People do what they have always done and they move the camera if they want to look at something. You will literally never ever look at the edges of the monitor.
I don’t think ultrawide brings anything to gaming.
Your eyes focus on a rather small area of the screen, they don’t go from left to right all the time to take it all in. You might pick up things to your sides in peripheral vision but that’s not going to strain your eyes. (No, I don’t have a ultrawide curved screen.)
In theory no? But in practise, you are roughly doubling the amount of moving stuff the player’s visual cortex needs to process. I don’t think there’s really any way to predict that other than “try it”…
You can however make sure you get one that is “flicker free”. There is a habit with high speed gaming monitors of using backlight strobing to reduce pixel ghosting; it may well be a 120hz flicker, but it is not a easy on the eyes as no flicker. I personally am sensitive to flicker, it will give me headache and tired eyes within hours. Just one to watch out for 
Personal experience; some years ago I rigged up 2 small monitors as side panels to my main, and ran WoW across all of them. The outer edges did not look good. They didn’t look good in any games, because the geometry gets quite distorted with a wide FoV. It does fill your peripheral vision with a sense of motion, but turning to look at it was unsatisfying and it was a challenge to keep myself focussed in the middle where the viewing was good. Got rid of that setup after a few months and didn’t go back.
As far as I know, nothing about an ultrawide monitor can correct for that FoV distortion, so it is likely that the situation remains. I would try to find a way to try it out, maybe at a store that has a demo unit, before committing.
my first epileptic fit was caused by one of those curved screen. Too much info going in to your brain.
Avoid em like the plague.
It really, really, really depends on the person. My husband loves his curved monitor while I can’t even look at it for more than 5 minutes before my eyes hurt and I start to feel a bit nauseous. Also can’t look at large TVs or monitors in general so I have a 21" monitor and hope those don’t disappear from the market as I can’t use anything bigger without getting migraine.
I own a ROG Strix XG32VQ as in my screen it is nowhere near as wide as the ones you’re looking at but it is big enough to give me enough information visually around me to know what is going on peripheral vision with also having something of a curve it is not hugely wide but it is enough to engross me in-game and focus on play. Go too big and you may end up distracted as others have said turning is an issue as well.
Another thing to note is will you be doing more than just gaming on your machine and not just WoW because it might not marry well with some other games and or normal day to day use when not n gaming it’s a strange one this one because every person is different also you will need the graphical grunt to push the screen along with at the refresh rate to frame rate ratio. If the graphical side of things is not able to push the frame rate at the expected level then there will be a performance drop.
I play on a 34" ultra wide. Had no problem at all with it.
My brother just has his super ultra wide. No problems either. But this is all very personal.
I’ve been playing on a 34" slightly curved ultra-wide for about 3 years now. I don’t think it increases eye strain. If you’re already playing on a 27", then it will have roughly the same height and you’ll just have some more area on the sides.
Ultra-wide is nice because it makes you feel like you’re in the game world because the monitor covers more of your peripheral vision. For WoW and a lot of other games, I think 21:9 is awesome. But for competitive shooters where you want the lowest possible latency times with minimal ghosting, 16:9 panels perform better.
As for curvature: it’s basically just a feature that ensures that you perceive the panel’s color output uniformly by minimizing the angle at which you look at the surface. You won’t really notice it. The only annoying thing about it is that it will make the monitor consume a bit more desk space.
I don’t really understand why people buy such wide monitors. Doesn’t it make it harder to actually follow everything that’s happening on the screen?
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