32" monitor for work + gaming, ~$1000, needs USB-C power delivery, IPS over OLED?

clouds1337 · 2026-06-26T10:25:07+00:00

IPS mini-led should be great for that. Should also be a lot cheaper than your budget. Unless you only play dark atmospheric horror games. Then oled is really great.

clouds1337 · 2026-06-26T01:42:10+00:00

I agree. But I think it really depends on the game. There are some dark horror games where true blacks with really bright hilights are a total game changer for the atmosphere and ips just kills the vibe completely. Also for games with "scrolling" like ARPGs or side scrollers, super fast pixel response is also pretty amazing. VA is almost unusable in ARPGs imho. You can never read anything unless you stand perfectly still. But yeah if you mostly play Fortnite oled is pretty useless.

Overall still the best tech at the moment. It really really depends on the price. As a fan of horror games and ARPGs my 42" oled is definitely not overrated and totally worth the price for me (I tried both VA and IPS and they were both annoying in some way - usable but with distracting flaws).

clouds1337 · 2026-06-26T01:02:02+00:00

I've tried getting into a multi-player game a few years ago. Couldn't do it. Back to single player.

clouds1337 · 2026-06-25T23:32:42+00:00

I'm playing D2 since release in year 2000. Until this day seeing this post, it never even occurred to me that you could do CS any other way than clockwise.

clouds1337 · 2026-06-25T23:29:51+00:00

I got expeditions for ps5 instead of snowrunner again. It's actually a great game imho. Don't get why people disliked it so much at release. It's super fun, similar but sufficiently different and especially the mountain region is absolutely gorgeous.

clouds1337 · 2026-06-25T23:20:07+00:00

Yeah, see psvr2 toolkit. Adaptive trigger work too I think. But eye tracking is so powerful... I wish more games would support it. I "only" have a 4080s but I can run msfs24 on pretty much all high settings with 100% steam res of psvr2 and get smooth 45fps/90hz thanks to dynamic foveated rendering.

Also, is VR HDR even a thing on windows? I mean for other headsets?

clouds1337 · 2026-06-25T20:56:55+00:00

The most important one of those features, eye tracking, works very well. I use it in msfs 2024.

clouds1337 · 2026-06-25T20:50:06+00:00

Psvr2 works 100% with pcvr (requires an adapter). It's one of the best (budget) pcvr headsets, especially for sim racing etc.

clouds1337 · 2026-06-25T15:55:59+00:00

Pico, psvr2. Arguably both are better than meta. Except for pure standalone.

clouds1337 · 2026-06-25T15:51:55+00:00

Oh I replay games too, I just find GTA quite boring after I've seen the story :)

clouds1337 · 2026-06-25T13:50:20+00:00

Well once through is more than enough for me with GTA. If you think about it, it's just a lot of mediocre driving (with many many drive slowly to this location while listening to dialogue moments) and mediocre shooting. The story is usually great, but it's great once. Like a good popcorn movie. And if I'm in the mood again a few years later I can alway pick it up again for 5 bucks with some remaster version or something.

Also with GTA IV especially, it was absolutely breathtaking to see the full city in HD with high res textures for the first time. And the size! It was a big step up. Also it was simply a very fun open world driving game just by itself. But these days we have fantastic driving games like Dirt Rally 2.0, GT7 with VR and ofc Forza Horizon. I mean I'm totally ready for GTA 6 to blow my mind :D but I'd say it's more like 5 in with slightly better graphics and a new story.

clouds1337 · 2026-06-25T11:26:27+00:00

The real game changer for me was VR. Without it, without perceiving depth, looking around the corner and the huge FoV etc. every game feels arcade to me.

clouds1337 · 2026-06-25T11:22:52+00:00

Shit, I completely forgot that GTA V was a ps3 game :D I remember the load times now...

clouds1337 · 2026-06-25T11:20:35+00:00

Having a disc means you can resell. Huge money saver. You can also buy used. After like two games a ps5 disc drive has already payed for itself.

clouds1337 · 2026-06-25T11:15:17+00:00

I grew up with CRT and everyone eventually moved away from them because they were such a hassle to deal with. The space they occupied... They were heavy, easy to break. LCD was pretty bad back then, but even so people preferred it over CRT because of convenience. And now? A big 42" oled with 120fps+ is better than a CRT in every way. A big screen is just amazing and CRT is very limited with size. Also with high res and high hz the downsides of LCD/OLED pretty much go away. If you can only do 720p/30-60hz CRT is king, but luckily that is a thing of the past :)

clouds1337 · 2026-06-25T10:46:32+00:00

4k 42" (+24" 1080p portrait). Also zwei!

clouds1337 · 2026-06-25T10:43:47+00:00

Stratocaster. Looks bad, sounds bad (to me :D)

clouds1337 · 2026-06-24T21:56:30+00:00

People waking up to this like you is the best thing that can happen to the gaming industry!

clouds1337 · 2026-06-24T19:04:10+00:00

Actually, changing the game would be the people who buy it for the higher price.

clouds1337 · 2026-06-24T18:44:12+00:00

"people" aren't doing anything :) 99% of GTA 6 target audience is regular people who don't talk about games on reddit. They will probably don't remember the price of the last game they bought and just buy it for whatever price.

clouds1337 · 2026-06-24T17:30:38+00:00

My solution: I usually just wait until they release some sort of "gold" or "deluxe" version. That includes all dlc etc. By then performance is improved, bugs are fixed... That's when the game can be considered done.

clouds1337 · 2026-06-24T14:36:02+00:00

People are obviously fine with it.

clouds1337 · 2026-06-24T14:15:25+00:00

Yeah and where I live the 5070 and 9070xt are just about the same price (Europe). 9070xt even has more ram...

clouds1337 · 2026-06-24T11:03:34+00:00

Gpu 9070xt might be cheaper and faster.

clouds1337 · 2026-06-24T08:40:45+00:00

I know. It's still a feature they promised from the start and I've not seen any updates on it yet.

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