LG Electronics 34UM88-P 34-Inch 21:9 UltraWide Screen LED-Lit Monitor

My first ultrawide was 29um67. It was freesync capable and in nvidia panel refresh rate displayed the 75hz option after activating freesync in the monitor settings. Great monitor, never had an issue with it. I then switched to 34um95 which had terrible flickering, half of display would go off sometimes, or half would display image like i just cracked it. Turn off/on was solving the problem. I sold it and bought another 34um95. This time no flickering issues at all, the only minor issue was if id have a browser open in the middle of the screen and try to scroll a page, id see vertical tearing right in the middle of the screen sometimes. I upgraded to 34um88 just because i got it cheaper than i can sell my old 34um95 for. I like the stand much better, its sturdier with a lot more adjustments. The black color of the stand is also better to the eyes than silver on the old one. I didnt notice vertical tearing in the middle of the screen yet which is an improvement for me. No flickering as well. Color reproduction seems to be excellent as it was on the old one. I thought that all the freesync capable LG monitors allow to switch to 75hz in the nvidia control panel after activating freesync setting, i was wrong. Unlike the older 29um67 monitor, i didnt get the 75hz option in the nvidia control panel this time. I went to the "create custom resolution" (overclocking) setting and typed in 75hz after activating "freesync". Everything seemed working fine. After setting v-sync on i was getting 75fps stable in Unigine 4.0. Then i learned about the testufo website and found out by taking pictures with DSLR camera at 1/5 shutter speed that this monitor skips the frames when overclocking it to 75hz. Actually any change above 60hz does frame skipping. I tried different DP cable, installing/uninstalling LG monitor driver, trying different picture modes, freesync on/off, nothing helped. This is a bummer since my older 29um67 was freesync capable as well and some people on forums achieved 80hz without frame skipping on it. Edit: I have both a certified 1.2 and the original Displayport cable and I found out this monitor flickers horizontally when displayport 1.2 is turned on in settings, same issue the 34um95 had.

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This monitor has a LOT of real estate. I had a little trouble getting it to recognize the Apple Mac Pro 2013 thru the thunderbolt cable but was able to resolve this by hooking up via HDMI, set up thunderbolt, then disconnect HDMI. Colors are very good but the contrast is not too good even after fidelling with it for a while. Brightness is dramatic and I had to turn it WAY DOWN to get decent looking screens. All in all I would definately use this on any high end computer with a graphics system capable of driving it. Oh and the included screen control software is good but it needs to have a custom layout mode included in it. Right now what you see is all you have to choose from....

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The monitor is verstale with a nice image and decent on screen controls. The software is another matter. It requires UAC control in Windows which pops up anytime you need to change the screen sharing arrangement between multiple devices which is why I bought it. If you are in a business environment with normal security , I would not recommend it. For home gaming might be quite nice. If they could make the display drivers like other windows drivers so you can just adjust from a panel OR If they update the on screen controls to make use of more than just splitting the screen in half, it would be dynamite and then worth 5 stars. The OSD should allow to pick the window configuration and then allow for PIP and all the available windows to be dimensioned (resolution) individually .

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