Best Gaming Monitor

[AKIron]

Brother may have to give up VR in flight simming due to GWI effect on his eyes. Opinions on the absolute best monitor for flight sim? 

[AKIron]

I never was fully satisfied with multiple monitors but they might work for him. I even tried a vertical orientation several years ago.

[xanax]

Brother may have to give up VR in flight simming due to GWI effect on his eyes. Opinions on the absolute best monitor for flight sim?

I bought a top of line, every doo-dad and dingus included OLED 4K monitor but I wish I didn't. AH, IL2, DCS all look spectacular but guess what? I can't see cons in AH FSO or any cons period in IL2 and DCS until they are right on me with 4K turned as the dots are too damn small. I tune it down to 1440 to play flight sims and I can see them decently enough now. In other game types it's phenomenal to have 4K but I've pretty much abandoned other games due to time and whatever. If I were to buy one today I'd get curved, 32" minimum and something that runs 1440 really well. Maybe this:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F6724X5N?tag=ftr-tomshardware-us-20&th=1&ascsubtag=tomshardware-us-1119718601267217390-20&geniuslink=true

Tom's review: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-gaming-monitors,4533.html#section-best-curved-gaming-monitor

For a while there, squad mates in FSO would announce "cons at 3 at about 10K" or whatever and I'd be thinking they were crazy or I was blind. Turns out I was blind...well some of them are crazy but I digress. 1440 is a great res for flight sims in my opinion.

Sorry for the illicit language in the 1st sentence.

[AKIron]

I bought a top of line, every doo-dad and dingus included OLED 4K monitor but I wish I didn't. AH, IL2, DCS all look spectacular but guess what? I can't see cons in AH FSO or any cons period in IL2 and DCS until they are right on me with 4K turned as the dots are too damn small. I tune it down to 1440 to play flight sims and I can see them decently enough now. In other game types it's phenomenal to have 4K but I've pretty much abandoned other games due to time and whatever. If I were to buy one today I'd get curved, 32" minimum and something that runs 1440 really well. Maybe this:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F6724X5N?tag=ftr-tomshardware-us-20&th=1&ascsubtag=tomshardware-us-1119718601267217390-20&geniuslink=true

Tom's review: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-gaming-monitors,4533.html#section-best-curved-gaming-monitor

For a while there, squad mates in FSO would announce "cons at 3 at about 10K" or whatever and I'd be thinking they were crazy or I was blind. Turns out I was blind...well some of them are crazy but I digress. 1440 is a great res for flight sims in my opinion.

Sorry for the illicit language in the 1st sentence.

Common complaint about small dots at 4K. Thanks for the tips on monitor. I run a 32" at 2560x1440 and like it a lot.

[Bizman]

I tune it down to 1440 to play flight sims and I can see them decently enough now. In other game types it's phenomenal to have 4K but I've pretty much abandoned other games due to time and whatever.

Tuning 4k down to 1440 is not the best option for improved visibility. 1080 would be much clearer. 1280x760 would also work but it would look grainy.

Here's why: 4k is exactly 4 times bigger than 1080, twice as tall and twice as wide. Thus, when tuning down to 1080 one pixel will consist of a grid of four physical pixels. If you tune down to other common options like 1440, the physical pixels on the edge of a single drawn pixel will be randomly either "on" or "off", making the image blurry. The effect is kin to anti-aliasing beyond maxxed. If you think about physical pixels as tiny light bulbs, they're either lit or not, there's no fractionally lit bulbs.