I hope that Samsung has improved the startup and resolution switching time on this because that's pretty slow on the CRG9 at least. You can get past your BIOS way before the screen shows an image.
Some tips for those just coming into super ultrawides:
Some tips for those just coming into super ultrawides:
- Displayfusion and MS Powertoys Fancyzones are your friends on the desktop. Displayfusion can set up things like a center taskbar, multiple taskbars etc in case you want something like that. It's regularly on sale on Steam. Fancyzones is easier to use for splitting the screen into regions for easily snapping things into them.
- Fullscreen functionality will be the bane of your usage. YouTube, games, anything that goes fullscreen usually does so in a way that wastes most of your desktop space unless the content runs at super ultrawide res. It's better to go windowed in many cases.
- Expect to see wide aspect ratio content with black bars because content creators did not upload it in actual widescreen format but with black bars baked in.
- Add custom resolutions. 3840x1440 and 3440x1440 are useful ones for reducing FOV distortion issues and giving some extra performance. With mini-LED it probably looks better too since the black bars on sides will be black. You might need to use GPU scaling for this to work.
- 100% scaling with 110% font sizes in apps that support scaling text was my preferred setup with the CRG9.
- If you want to mount it, get an Ergotron HX with the extra heavy duty mount meant for the G9. Nothing else will be guaranteed to hold it up properly except maybe wall mounts.
- Unless Samsung has fixed it on the G9 series, the sharpness control will be weird. On the CRG9 sharpness at 56% was the "no sharpening setting".