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Greetings gentlemen,

For long I have hoped that my day would come on which joining the widescreen gaming forum would finally make sense, and yesterday that moment arrived. Yesterday my new LG 34UM95-P (http://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-34UM95-P-ultrawide-monitor, 21:9, 3440x1440) arrived after a long wait, and I'm already starting to grow quite fond of it. From now on I'll be able to provide information regarding games using the 21:9 aspect ratio.

I had been in doubt about either getting a triple monitor setup or this for quite a while, but I fell for this as it has almost the resolution of three monitors, without the bezels and without the fact that 3 monitors in landscape mode (which is how I would have used them since portrait makes less sense from a productivity point of view in my case) would have less vertical pixels. Since I'll be using the monitor for sofware development related work as well, I decided I would prefer this one. Besides that, it looks very stylish on my desk . Other than that, I must admit, this is my home monitor and gaming will be one of it's main purposes .

I updated 2 games so far: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (which worked surprisingly well in 21:9) as well as the new MMO Wildstar (which also works well in 21:9). I would consider my backlog of games to be rather large, so if anyone has any requests in terms of testing for 21:9, feel free to ask.

I also have one request for the editors of the website: could the resolution of 3440x1440 be added to the 'tested resolutions' section when updating a game? Currently there's only 2560x1080. I'll try to test games in that resolution as well, but as you might imagine I won't play using that resolution all to often

Kind regards

I have been looking at this monitor also. What res monitor did you have before?

My problem is I have a dell u2711 at 2560x1440 as my center monitor and 2 dell 1680x1050 screens on the outside of my eyefinity. I have the best of both worlds in that on the games that don't handle multiscreen well I just use the 2711 and then I can go eyefinity if I want.

Before the 14.6 driver I would have to go 5040x1050 and only use 1680x1050 on my u2711 in the center. It worked but I did not like the idea of giving up all that res on the most important monitor: the center one. Plus it had to scale.

Now with the new driver I can use 5920x1440 (1680+2560+1680)x1440. This works great but I have to chop the bottom or the top 390 res off the two side monitors.

My QUESTION IS THIS: Do you think the 3440x1440 is enough of a upgrade over 2560x1440 to warrant the $1000 bucks. I do have the u2711 sold for 350 and the two 1680x1050's sold for $75 bucks each. So I do have half of it paid for.
I also have a 24 inch 1920x1200 in portrait on the side of all this for an extra monitor for teamspeak and my temp monitoring apps.

Any ideas's?