EPTWhat monitor do you use for playing Remastered? - Page 2
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Navane
Netherlands2751 Posts
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zerglingling
131 Posts
On October 31 2018 14:46 QuadroX wrote: I believe on a monitor like this pixels are not square in SD mode or 1.16 if there are no horizontal black bars. It’s 5:4 aspect ratio while BW was designed for 4:3 (1280x960). BW's resolution is 640x480 1.16 runs in exactly that, and the monitor's scaler does an okay-ish job at blowing it up. Windowed 2x also fits well. 1.2 runs the desktop resolution, and upscales while preserving the aspect with a letterbox, so I get an exact 2x scale with tiny bars above and below. | ||
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krocan.cz
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MeSaber
Sweden1235 Posts
im at 27" benQ 144Hz like 50 cm away from screen. It works to play BW but any bigger and i would have issues, or have to move screen backwards (which is not possible for me atm). Edit: Oh and moving screen backwards would defeat the purpose of having a bigger screen. Also its a subjective matter as any noob can claim it works wonders.. While pros most likely will not agree. | ||
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EndingLife
United States1600 Posts
On November 02 2019 06:19 krocan.cz wrote: Do you think is it good idea to play remastered in 32" monitor? 2560 I've been using a 32" for quite some time. While microing is easier than ever, multitasking is pretty damn hard. If you play an aggressive style and like short games, a bigger monitor makes sense. It has its pros and cons though. | ||
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TT1
Canada10035 Posts
mouse moves way more fluidly | ||
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seriosity
United States214 Posts
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SchAmToo
United States1141 Posts
I really like this monitor, I have 3 of them on a stand. | ||
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Piste
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TT1
Canada10035 Posts
On November 03 2019 14:45 SchAmToo wrote: ASUS VG24QE. 24” 144hz. I agree with TT1 you notice 144 hz a little and it’s more pleasant. Obvi not needed. I really like this monitor, I have 3 of them on a stand. got the same monitor, no stand is a deal breaker for me | ||
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SCWes
Canada74 Posts
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BonitiilloO
Dominican Republic627 Posts
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TireDad
2 Posts
Could you please advise me on which factors I should take into consideration? My basic requirements are 27" and 4K. Unfortunately, I have no idea what other features will impact picture quality (sharpness) and gameplay. Is a 2ms response time sufficient? Refresh rate 100 mHz or more if I get 300 FPS? What kind of display technology (LED, IPS, OLED) should I look for? Is there anything else I should investigate? I currently have a 27" 1080p monitor and love the size, but I tried SC on my son's 2K monitor and the quality improvement was really noticeable. | ||
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WGT-Baal
France3470 Posts
On December 30 2025 21:48 TireDad wrote: Hi, I want to buy a new monitor specifically for Starcraft Remastered to get the best possible experience. Could you please advise me on which factors I should take into consideration? My basic requirements are 27" and 4K. Unfortunately, I have no idea what other features will impact picture quality (sharpness) and gameplay. Is a 2ms response time sufficient? Refresh rate 100 mHz or more if I get 300 FPS? What kind of display technology (LED, IPS, OLED) should I look for? Is there anything else I should investigate? I currently have a 27" 1080p monitor and love the size, but I tried SC on my son's 2K monitor and the quality improvement was really noticeable. It is heavily dependent on how far you sit from the monitor. But before going into starcraft specifically, the most common online consensus, assuming typical distance to your monitor (you re on a desktop computer, normal offixe chair, keyboard in front of you then monitor right behind) : 24" and below: 1080p, 27" 1080p is gonna be bad. 27" 1440p is good, i believe 27" 4k isn't needed due to distance and pixel density, instead go 32in+ for 4k. But this of course depends on how close you sit to your monitor. I d recommend you go into some store and look at a 27in 4k display from the distance you would have at home and then a 1440p in the same store. See if you notice a difference and if it is worth it to you. If yes, get the 4k, if not i d recommend perhaps a 1440p with higher refresh rate? Further you sit, the bigger you can (and should) go. It is also dependent on the meaning of "best experience". For 1v1 (or 2v2) semi competitive/ladder: 1080p 24in high refresh rate (144Hz is nice) and fast gtg (1ms good), disable the extras (extra lightning etc) as the goal is to see only what is needed for max efficiency. You also want comparatively a smaller monitor since you wanna see the minimap and everything at once without moving your head too much. If you wanna enjoy the campaign more and in general chill, then yeah get a larger screen and go 4k and toggle all the effects. Personally, i play 1v1 mostly nowadays (custom games but still) and I have tried a range of things (27in 1440p 180Hz, 24in 1080p 144hz, 43in 4k tv (way too slow and big). 24in 1080p 144hz is the best for me. IPS for fast response time is essentially king. LED or OLED would be useless imo for competitive play (even low level, i m quite bad) but for chilling it d be great, you can also use it for other games too. Also for me 144hz vs 180hz didn't matter. But 120 to 144hz did a lot (ofc 60 to 144 was great) but that may be a bit subjective. In the end everything is a bit subjective so hope it helps still | ||
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TonDan04
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TireDad
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My APM is around 160 when I switch to "try-hard" mode.  Thanks for the advice, Baal. I have a pretty large desk, so I sit about 3.5 ft away from the screen. I will go with a 4K 27" 2–4ms IPS 144 Hz monitor, because right now I care more about the visuals with all video extras turned on. | ||
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marwin
Ukraine111 Posts
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WGT-Baal
France3470 Posts
On December 31 2025 01:09 TireDad wrote: I am way too old for competitive gaming. BW is just my stress relief medicine, limited to 4–5 hours a week max. My APM is around 160 when I switch to "try-hard" mode. Thanks for the advice, Baal. I have a pretty large desk, so I sit about 3.5 ft away from the screen. I will go with a 4K 27" 2–4ms IPS 144 Hz monitor, because right now I care more about the visuals with all video extras turned on. My pleasure, hope you find what you like then | ||
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iopq
United States1076 Posts
On December 30 2025 21:48 TireDad wrote: Hi, I want to buy a new monitor specifically for Starcraft Remastered to get the best possible experience. Could you please advise me on which factors I should take into consideration? My basic requirements are 27" and 4K. Unfortunately, I have no idea what other features will impact picture quality (sharpness) and gameplay. Is a 2ms response time sufficient? Refresh rate 100 mHz or more if I get 300 FPS? What kind of display technology (LED, IPS, OLED) should I look for? Is there anything else I should investigate? I currently have a 27" 1080p monitor and love the size, but I tried SC on my son's 2K monitor and the quality improvement was really noticeable. First of all, 2 ms is the advertised response type. For an LCD monitor, it usually means it takes 2 ms in the best case, with massive overdrive (with overshoot) and warmed up. You need to look at review on rtings.com to see the response time for all colors, with a reasonable overdrive setting. Usually monitors advertised with 1ms response times still take 4-12 ms to finish transitions https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/asus/tuf-gaming-vg259qm this is my monitor, scroll down to the table, at 60 overdrive (no significant overshoot) you get huge gray to gray transition times it gets up to 280Hz, but after a few years I started getting flickering so I turned off overclocking (LUL) and settled at 240Hz The brightness, contrast, backlight uniformity, etc. all suck Strobing can be turned on, but it creates ghosting, even worse with variable refresh rate turned on (although it's one of the few monitors that can do it, the feature sucks). But you won't need VFR for SC. Conclusion: if you get an LCD monitor, it can only do SC. For any media, other games that support HDR, etc. it will suck. It will suck in dark rooms because of the backlight bleed, everything will be more grayish instead of black. Viewing angles kind of suck too, because blacks become even more gray. Again, for pure SC you can get an LCD and it will be fine. It's IPS so the contrast is bad, but when you get into high refresh monitors, TNs are just a smidge faster with even worse viewing angles (vertically especially), VAs get better contrast. But the fastest VAs give up some contrast to transition more quickly so in the end there's very little difference between technologies. If you want to buy a more suitable HDR monitor you need to either go for a mini-LCD or OLED. OLEDs have basically under 1 ms transitions so for things like shooters they are superior. If you don't care about shooters or HDR, just get an LCD https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/lg/27gr93u-b so this 144Hz monitor is affordable-ish the 4K 240Hz LCDs are crazy expensive, like $700+ so might as well buy an OLED at that point and cover all your bases | ||
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