These days in Overwatch 2, I’ve taken up taking part in Wrecking Ball. In comparison with my regular foremost, Mercy, it by some means entails much more disorienting movement, whipping throughout the map, and monitoring fast-moving characters. So I used to be excited to play on the Samsung Odyssey G6. It has a 360-Hz refresh fee that’s sooner than absolutely anything I’ve performed on. Eventually, I lastly have extra frames than I want.
The Odyssey G6 is a 27-inch flat-panel OLED show with a 2,560 x 1,440 decision. It helps AMD FreeSync Premium Professional, which helps HDR content material, one thing that different FreeSync-compatible displays can’t essentially do. That stated, the standout characteristic right here is the ludicrous refresh fee, which is quicker than many could have ever used earlier than.
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The Complete Package deal
The Odyssey G6 stand is a delight to arrange and use. The monitor pops onto the sturdy stand with a click on, although it does help VESA mounts in case you’d choose to deliver your individual monitor arm. It may swivel as much as 60 levels horizontally (30 in every route), and you may rotate the display between portrait and panorama mode in both route.
My solely grievance on the rotation is that there’s no middle gap within the stand to run cables by way of. There’s a small rubber clip on the again to carry cables in place, however in case you plan to rotate your display lots, you would find yourself getting cables tangled in case you don’t run them correctly.
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Quicker Than a Rushing Body
Once I examined the Razer Blade 18 (8/10, WIRED Recommends) gaming laptop computer, it packed a blisteringly quick 300-Hz refresh fee, which I assumed could be overkill. Human eyes don’t precisely see in “frames per second.” Our brains are tuned to focus extra on issues like distinction and movement, so even when we are able to technically see flickering artifacts that flash by at very excessive speeds, in observe we’d not discover a lot distinction between a 120-Hz show, the place issues refresh 120 instances a second, and a 300-Hz show, the place they refresh 300 instances, just because we’re not specializing in how rapidly the picture on the display updates.
Nevertheless, body fee turns into much more related if you’re attempting to trace fast-moving objects (or gamers) in video video games. When there are fewer frames per second, objects will look much less like they’re shifting and extra like they’re making little micro jumps from one place to a different. You’ll be able to see this impact in motion with this on-line instrument. Attempt evaluating 24 fps to 120 fps (in case your monitor can help it), with or with out movement blur. The results change into fairly apparent.
It’s necessary to know why this works the best way it does, as a result of the Odyssey G6 doesn’t simply make movement easy. It nearly makes it unnecessarily easy. I’ve been utilizing this monitor for a pair weeks, and I’m nonetheless undecided on whether or not such smoothness is an effective factor. At a sure level, I’ve to wonder if my mind is the actual bottleneck stopping me from mentally updating the place the enemy Cassidy is 360 instances per second.
