Question Best Monitor or TV for Flight Simulator?

[Scarpozzi]

I have a pair of 19" Acer Monitors. They're great for workstation stuff, but not big enough for good visibility in the Simulator. I got a flight yoke setup and have rudder pedals coming today. I'd like to have a monitor centered behind the yoke and go all out.

My question though, should I be looking at TVs? My video card currently can only do 1080p without smoking, but that's the upward limitation of most 32" TVs. I'm thinking about going with a $150-200 1080p TV and then repurposing it for TV watching in a year or two.

My concern isn't resolution as long as it can do 1080...I'm more concerned with finding one above 60hz that doesn't cap my frame rate. I doubt I'll be above 60hz, but certainly don't want to throttle the frames at the display. Any recommendations on whether or not Flight Sim 2020 will work well with a 32" TV?


FWIW, my current video card is the meager Gigabyte nVidia 1660 Super ($220 is what I paid and it performs decent enough....just wasn't worth the $200+ markup for the slight performance increase since I bought it before the 3000 series was out).

 

[Pohemi]

Heh...I was going to suggest one of the 49" curved dual-QHD displays, but your GPU wouldn't push it, so that kinda kills it.

I was just trying to imagine the immersion with that tho...would/could work nicely if powered enough, heh.

Good luck figuring out an optimal solution, though.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Heh...I was going to suggest one of the 49" curved dual-QHD displays, but your GPU wouldn't push it, so that kinda kills it.

I was just trying to imagine the immersion with that tho...would/could work nicely if powered enough, heh.

Good luck figuring out an optimal solution, though.

Yeah. It's great at 1080p for what I'm doing, but not sure what all it could drive. I don't care as much about resolution as I do frame rate, honestly. 1080p is great and for Flight Sim 2020, at this time, bandwidth and quality of the photorealistic graphics are a little limited for my area. I figure the game/sim will be even better in the years to come.

 

[aigomorla]

flight sim would wreck my system and im running a 3090. lol....
Its the only game next to Minecraft RTX i fear.

But games like that... you need to go ultra wide.
You really make use of the wide scope, in games like that on a ultrawide.

 

[gk1951]

Love MSFS2020!

 

[sdifox]

Best Gaming Projector 2022 - IGN

Projectors for gaming? Don't knock it until you've played with a 100-inch screen like we have.

www.ign.com

Now that is immersion. The Optima can do 240hz in 1080p.


Think 100"


This is interesting as well.

 

[aigomorla]

But wouldn't a Ody G9 be better?

And i hear now they come in mini led.

The Odyssey Neo G9 is Samsung's first mini-LED monitor!

Samsung has teased its upcoming ultrawide gaming monitor, the Odyssey Neo G9, in a new video. It is a high-end Mini-LED gaming monitor with a curved screen.

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So it would blow anything out of the water in current tech, even OLED, HDR.

 

[biostud]

You can get the CHG9 which is 3840x1080, 49" UW.

 

[biostud]

But wouldn't a Ody G9 be better?

And i hear now they come in mini led.

The Odyssey Neo G9 is Samsung's first mini-LED monitor!

Samsung has teased its upcoming ultrawide gaming monitor, the Odyssey Neo G9, in a new video. It is a high-end Mini-LED gaming monitor with a curved screen.

www.sammobile.com

So it would blow anything out of the water in current tech, even OLED, HDR.

It hasn't been released yet, and I suspect pricing around 3k.

 

[Hans Gruber]

I think you either want a triple monitor setup or VR for flight sim.