LG 34GS95QE-B: What Real Users Say About the Curve

I personally love the 800r curve. Added plus for playing RPG/JRPG games and racing games.

Hi, I have this model and was also concerned about the steep curve (coming from 34 ultrawide 1500R) but I like it, it's not distracting, nothing look crooked, it really feels optimal to me. It's true what LG says that every part of the screen is exactly 80cm from your eyes.

Sorry that happened. I have a 1440 P 2025 LG ultragear VA panel with amazing contrast and stories like this continue to steer me away from OLED. I love your monitor also, watched a ton of reviews.

MiniLED ftw!

Just bought one, and this post is the exact reason why I went Mini LED. No matter how much people will try to cope, OLED is disposable tech at best, for the price of an extremely durable product.

All OLED monitors will end up like this. People here will dog on you HARD, pixel shift, don't run full brightness, don't run HDR, run at 10% brightness, bla bla bla bla bla... In reality OLED is a sh*t tech for PC monitors, laptops and TVs, it got popularized by a bunch of YouTubers who are paid by the manufacturers.

Don't worry they are clueless. I have logo dimming off and tpc and gsr off and have 14k hours on my c1. No burn in. Pixel shift is good to have but it's not that important.

What bothers me about this monitor is the zero support from LG. Not a single firmware update since release. And it has its share of problems!

Here is my experience with this model bought off Amazon — first one came DOA did not power on at all. Returned to Amazon they sent a replacement. Out of the box it worked as intended for roughly 64 days. Now it doesn't power on unless I unplug everything and factory reset it. It will also randomly get red and white lines across half the screen.

If this had a more "normal" curve of 1800r, like the QD-OLED ultrawides, it would be a viable option. As it stands though with a ridiculous 800r curve, I'm not sure how well it will do. Very weird decision. It couldn't have been based on market research, as most every other gaming ultrawide is 1700-1900r.

I just picked this up and I much prefer the more aggressive curve. It takes up slightly less space on my desk and more of the monitor is in my fov.

Natural daylight doesn't seem to be strong enough in my current configuration to cause any reflections or glare, or make the monitor seem "dull" with its peak brightness, no matter what time of day, but only when the monitor is on and being used.

I know this post is old, but I was looking up settings recommendations and found this and thought I should add something. I thought the 800r curve would be bad, but ended up finding it far more immersive. If you sit about 3 ft from your monitor, it puts everything perfectly into your peripheral and I never need to turn my head.

Pixel shift isn't gonna really delay the block of pixels from your taskbar burning in lol. We need more mini led options.

LG is always better than Samsung on the fact that it lacks much of Samsung's "stupid"... I mean "smart" features.

I thought LG 800R is too much but after using it for like first 5min I realized that I'm not moving my head at all. While using Samsung 1800R I had to keep moving my head. No problems while working (I'm an interior designer) and much better immersion while gaming.

The AW3423DWF on the other hand, has similar text clarity to my C2, has good HDR presentation and is more of a "monitor", so its easy to sit down and play anything. I do miss the vertical screen space, but after going through multiple OLEDs, the DWF is the one I kept.

I down graded from neo g8 (32inch 4k 240hz). One reason is that I wanted a 240hz panel. With a 4090, some games can't run at 4k240. So I think 3440x1440 at 240hz is great. Curve isn't an issue for me.

UPDATE: vertical lines were removed by doing LG's integrated OLED Image Cleaning.

For me personally 800R is perfect. I could never stand curved monitors (1600R+), it always looked "off". 800R is the first curvature that actually feels "natural" to me. So much so, that I don't ever want to use a flat screen for desk gaming.

Yes warranty was simple and I received the monitor back in about 2 weeks.

Whether or not the 800r curve is too much is very subjective. You won't know unless you use it. I prefer it and can use it for any task. I would be much more concerned about the matte display. The visual clarity of this monitor sucks when you are not immersed in a game. It's an out of focus look that bothers me more every day that passes.

I regularly do productivity work on mine. If I stop and really pay attention to it, I can see it. But otherwise I rarely notice and it doesn't bother me.

I've been using this monitor since the beginning of April and haven't had any issues with anything at all. It's a fantastic monitor. HDR is beautiful on it.

I tried Samsung's 4k oled 32 inch 240hz and 49" oled g95sc, I wanted a monitor and not a smart tv, I'm not buying Samsung again. Bought the LG and I love the curve and menu settings. Inputs feel solid, great monitor, not returning it.

I used both the DWF and the 34" LG and the DWF was superior by a mile. The matte coating on the WOLED LG just made everything look grainy and just lower quality vs the glossy QD OLED.

I have tested all 3 models. Build quality is very good on all three. I still have both LGs in my possession and will keep one likely.

I went from 34 LG (800r curve at this size made the screen seem smaller than normal ultrawides) to the 39 LG and at first the res was off putting for a few days but in game it's hard to tell especially with sharpening and once you get playing for a while it sucks you in.

Yes LG says this is normal. My LG displayed picture way worse than this. Return it while you still can. LG ended up denying my warranty claim saying I obtained my proof of purchase on YouTube after 2 failed repair attempts. My Alienware QD-OLED has been perfect.

Damn! Only after 2772 hours? That's disappointing. You must've ran it 100% brightness, HDR all the time. Mine is at 2281 after 7 months. But I rarely run it 100% brightness, HDR only during gaming and watching movies. 99% of the time its at 20% brightness, 2 minute screen off after no interaction, No background, no Taskbar, dark mode. The main thing I'm worried about is Google address and favorites bar. Sucks having to baby it much. That's one thing I really hate about OLED.

Nope. No dead pixels or stuck pixels since day one. It's been a couple months since I had it and has been used for work from 8am to 5pm within minimal break and from 8pm to 12pm for gaming sessions. It's been rock solid with no issues.

I bought this monitor after coming across this and a couple of other reviews. To me, it just seems too bright as I mostly game in a dark room. I prefer keeping the peak brightness at low and used Windows HDR calibration which had me at 600nits brightness. This monitor has become my favorite that I've owned and my first OLED.

Given how subjective it is, it's probably best to just try it out and get one with a good return policy. Both WOLED and QD-OLED can have issues with text clarity due to how the subpixels are designed, but not everyone is bothered, and some can't even see it without getting painfully close to the display.

I'm very particular about my ultrawides for work. No curve, must be IPS. Not OLED because of the subpixel arrangement, though I love OLED for gaming and TV.

If you're not an avid gamer, this monitor doesn't make any sense. It's best use case is for playing games. That's what I got it for and it's amazing. Watching media it's less good at because most things have black bars, which actually causes reverse burn-in. For work? Forget it, buy a mini LED display instead.

I love the aggressive curve for gaming and productivity - the amount of screen space I can see without moving my head too much is great! Text clarity for reading and writing is absolutely fine to me. Somehow it looks worse when my Macbook is connected compared to Windows. Of course it's not extreme.

I listened to your advice and got the LG. I'm happy to say that I'm glad I did. The 1800r was just too wide for me and it felt like a burden looking at the right and left edges of the screen. The 800r really isn't as bad as it looked online. As for the matte coating thing ppl were whining about, it's only noticeable in a full white screen. I always use dark mode, and how often are you gonna have a full white screen scenario.

The 800R curvature means you should be sitting 800mm (31.4") from the screen. Any closer and it's easy to see issues with the low PPI. Any further and the screen will look distorted. The more relaxed 1800R curvature of the AW doesn't allow you that immersion.

I have the 39GS95QE-B. Loooooooove this monitor, completely awesome and immersive. The 800R is aggressive but goddamn the immersion is amazing. I recommend, if it's possible, to go check the monitor in a store near you but for me that curve is the sweet spot.

Most OLEDs will have vertical banding issues out of the box. Mine looked just like this until I ran a pixel refresh cycle and it went away. Give it like 8 hours of use then run refresh, if it doesn't go away, return it.

It's pretty bad for me — I just picked this up and besides reading text on Firefox it's amazing.

I don't have ANY issues with text clarity. Not even using ClearType.

There's always noticeable fringing in resolutions lower than 4K. I tried the 34" and 39" variants, and both gave me some headache. I think the combination of matte with the fringing was too much for me. Also, ANY yellow detail will have a red line on the left, like Best Buy logo. Got a QD-Oled glossy and I'm much happier.