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G-sync has nothing to do with what makes CRT good for quake. G-sync just stops tearing - CRT has tearing (cause you'd play with vsync off)

What makes CRT good:
+ No motion blur
+ No input lag
+ High Hz

Where as Gsync:
- Has motion blur
- Has input lag
+ High hz

G-sync gives quake players no added benefit over a normal high hz gaming monitor.

I'm talking about modern monitors as well, not just gsync. We currently have lightboost (low motion blur) and gaming mode (low input lag). I was just curious if lcds have surpassed crts yet with these new technolgies.

So your question is:
"What feels better for Quake?"

Your answer is CRT. (But it's just not practical these days in my opinion, the pros don't outweigh the cons)

Would I ever buy a CRT ever again? Not a chance. Because I value my eyes and love ultra wide screen for my desktop space. Plus I play a lot of other games that benefit from a higher res / wide screen. I have a G-Sync ULMB monitor, just so you know ULMB isn't very practical, it flickers and the colours are shit. Also when you enable ULMB it makes the input latency higher, which is counter productive. Now let's face it: When was the last time a major international tournament used CRT? Like 2006? And for the last 10 years do you think LCD has hindered Cypher, Rapha or Cooller? Now that's all there is to it imo. If the best of the best use LCD, why would scrubbers like us need CRT.

Thanks a lot for the info. Also i disagree about the last sentence. Not saying it's all crt but i think there's a reason online heroes like strenx and evil dominate.

And in my opinion, strenx and evil are silly for practicing on CRT when tournaments use LCD. It takes a lot longer than just a days warm-up to adjust.
(Just taking your word on what they use, I hadn't heard that they use CRT at home before)

I'm sure on stream evil said he was now using benq 27" LCD

I might be wrong though!

I had Dell 21" Crt (Sony re-badged!) in 2000 was the Bees Knees but heck think it gave out radiation so prefer LCD technology now! :)

With OLED coming down in price wonder if this will be the answer to the holy grail????

using a crt monitor for a year exposes you to the dose of radiation equivalent to eating 10 bananas.
https://xkcd.com/radiation/

From having both a high performance CRT recently and a modern 144hz monitor, there was basically no discernible difference to my eyes. Maybe the CRT had a few ms over the lcd, but smoothness and blurring I didn't really notice any difference. No differences in aim or anything either, both felt great, although I felt that the CRT made long distance aiming more difficult due to low resolution. In no way can 5ms make you beat someone else, and playing on a CRT usually means playing on a smaller screen (And lower resolution), which probably makes up the difference between the 2.

strenx online hero 5-6 years ago, ldc 144hz of last 2-3 years are very good compared to old models

Any of you guys know if this is good for quake, or too cheap.

It says 144hz 1ms delay..but.. Only $199?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KO4518I/...&psc=1

i guess "exodus" has this monitor(saw it in the "post your setup"-thread), he could tell you about it.

thanks but looks like a slightly different monitor to me

On CRT you could even turn on v-sync with high fps, without noticable added inputlag.

I'll just leave this here: http://www.blurbusters.com/wp-content/uploads...g-csgo.png

it shows, that the framecap at 143fps, is not enough to eliminate the additional inputlag, but that it's a neglible difference between the inputlag of 120fps+gsync, compared to gsync off.

in my experience, a cap at 140fps gets rid of any additional inputlag from g-sync, + all the benefits of it.

While they were at it, they should have tested how high you can set the framecap, before it adds inputlag.

My shaft accuracy sure dont agree with that. no sync no fps limit ftw imo

tried fps capped at 140?

Yes, and 125. Huge difference compared to nosync

I have an Acer 27 Predator XB270HU. 1440p IPS with 144Hz and Gsync.

I turn off Gsync when playing quake. It adds a lot of input lag and game feels sluggish. Strange thing is that even though my 980 ti maxes out the game 100% of the time it still feels slightly smoother with Gsync activated. Kind of like a positive timenudge felt when speccing GTV back in the days :)

When running other games maxed out and FPS starts dropping Gsync seems to smoothen the experience from slightly to a lot so I'm pretty happy it's there.

Precicely my opinion aswell, for non-hardcore aim games g-sync looks and feels amazing.

Thats why gsync exists, its not about input lag but feeling smooth in all situations (30-144fps)

if 19"+ cr'ts had higher brightness (nits) and more precise image and higher resolutions then they would still be viable, sadly that's not the case. my old iiyama 454 pro, the image is very dark, I know the monitor can do higher nits because it has some weird brightness auto adjust and so it makes the image very dark in dark scenes, just too much, maybe if someone knew how to hack the firmware to adjust increase the brightness then it would still be viable.

I have a 17" iiyama aswell and it goes up to 420 nits, it actualy looks better than the 19" but who would use a 17" inch today for gaming anyway, it's probably even less viewable those crt's

what bothers me a bout gaming lcds are the aspect ratio (16:9), it simply looks odd and weird for a computer station, despite getting used to it, it just doesnt look right, a computer shouldnt be 16:9. The sweet spot is somewhere between 15:10 and 16:10. Some people say that the human eye sees 50% more horizontaly due to having 2 eyes. Which means it doesnt make sens with this ultra wide screens. If I can't stand 16:9 then how they expect people to buy 21:9

Oh, and yeah the motion blur is a big minus as well. I guess most people don't bother with ULMB or equivelants due to how dark the screen get's. It also adds input lag, atleast on the benq's

Also, most people don't seem to talk about the fact that the image get's all scewy on crt monitors, ecspecialy if you force the hz up. And there is something about the crt should idealy be facing a certain direction because of how the earth rotates, I think it has something to do with the poles affecting the image.

something to do with the poles affecting the image

i got the 454, need help setting it up?