Gaming monitor vs Decent tv

[SharkyUK]

Would you still recommend this one mate?

Yes mate, but as Simon says... it might be difficult to find at the lower price now.

 

[imprezaworks]

So after using the monitor for a little while, has it improved my gaming ability, mmmm, maybe.

Tried bf1 for the first time in months, struggled. Going to try the tv again.

 

[imprezaworks]

@Simon998 @leeds2592
@anyone who knows

I’ve changed broadband so gone from 7meg to 35 Ish and also gone back to the tv. I find playing on the tv easier to see people far away etc but response time is better on the monitor. I play fortnite for reference.

I have the ASUS vs248hr 24” monitor. Any help to make things that bit clearer??? Or am I just used to a tv, in this case 50” on the wall.

 

[leedsboy]

@Simon998 @leeds2592
@anyone who knows

I’ve changed broadband so gone from 7meg to 35 Ish and also gone back to the tv. I find playing on the tv easier to see people far away etc but response time is better on the monitor. I play fortnite for reference.

I have the ASUS vs248hr 24” monitor. Any help to make things that bit clearer??? Or am I just used to a tv, in this case 50” on the wall.

Think you may have me confused with someone else as this is the last thing id know anything about ?

 

[imprezaworks]

Lol

 

[imprezaworks]

Let’s try again, bloody inferno owners

@Daz...

 

[Daz...]

I think I found your problem.

I play fortnite

On a serious note, that game doesn’t have the most detailed graphics so it probably is easier on a bigger screen.

The only thing I can think of is to make sure the settings are right on both the console and monitor. There’s a lot of people who use them and will recommend which settings to use to get the most out of them.

 

[imprezaworks]

Will try a couple of things later.

 

[imprezaworks]

When gaming who uses WiFi or lan?. No idea why I don’t use the latter as it’s supppsed to be so much better?!?.

 

[Simon998]

LAN always, or at least Powerline/Home plug adapters.

CAT5E is ample, CAT6 if you're hard-wiring it into your house (price isn't much different these days tbh, but you won't notice a difference in bandwidth speeds but it'll mean you won't need to upgrade it in future).

 

[Simon998]

Does your TV have a 'Game Mode'? That may give you a better refresh rate.

Are you playing on a console?

 

[imprezaworks]

Just bought a 10m tristar cat6 cable, £11.

https://www.diy.com/departments/tri...and&utm_medium=shopping&utm_source=google_cpc

 

[imprezaworks]

Does your TV have a 'Game Mode'? That may give you a better refresh rate.

Are you playing on a console?

Yeah has game mode. The tv simply isn’t as good as my monitor but I prefer to play on the tv, maybe muscle memory?!?

 

[Simon998]

It will be the fact that the 1080p image is stretched over 40+ inches compared to it being compressed on to a smaller monitor. So you're seeing things enlarged but the quality won't be as crisp.

Like watching a low quality video on your Phone vs the TV.

For consoles, a TV is ample as the consoles usually don't do over 30FPS and most TV's handle 60FPS+ these days.

 

[imprezaworks]

Be interested to see if there’s much difference with using lan, no idea why I haven’t tried it before.

 

[Simon998]

It won't drop out as much, if that ever happened and your ping should be slightly better. It's just a more stable connection.

 

[imprezaworks]

Cheers.

 

[imprezaworks]

@Simon998

Righty.

WiFi @17
Wired @35

 

[imprezaworks]

Going to remove the lan cable as the routers in the garage etc.

So when I game later, plug the cable back in and the game will automatically use lan?

 

[imprezaworks]

Yeah it will be on lan until you select otherwise.

 

[Simon998]

Wow. That’s a fair difference! I’ve a netgear nighthawk n6 wireless router so the wifi isn’t bad. You’ll notice a fair difference now.

Go to curry’s or Argos and get some homeplugs. They plug into wall sockets and allow you to use the electrical connection in your house as a LAN cable. (Trying to put this in layman’s terms before anyone shouts at me) you’ll get as good a connection as running the cable direct to the router but without having to drag a cable through the house.

 

[imprezaworks]

Yeah looking forward to having a blast.

Best mate is with sky and aparantly fibre, never gonna win top trumps

 

[imprezaworks]

Stupid phone/user

 

[imprezaworks]

@Simon998

So I ran the 10m cable to the PS4, I swear it’s worse than WiFi lol.

 

[N0ddie]

I now use a monitor (24” 1080P) with my Xbox One X. Dunno if it’s just natural progression but these last 2 days on PUBG on it have seen me kill a $hit tonne more people.

I’ve went from playing it on a 55” 4K HDR Tv and don’t miss it. Sitting a lot closer to the monitor does help reduce the big to small difference.

 

[imprezaworks]

Yeah so far so good on my monitor. The package we have is 35 gig which is what WiFi/lan gets me.