Mac Mini 2018 and LG 49WL95C-W 49-Inch Curved 32: 9 Ultrawide

I am using one of two computers with the LG49. I have a 2017 13" MBPro. I was able to get the monitor to 5k using the USB-C cable, all the modifications listed here to the display file, AND with using ResolutionTab to choose that resolution.

I don't have the choice of selecting the 5120 resolution from the native display settings options for some reason. Although OSX is telling me its 30bit depth at 5120, the visual view of it on the display looks like its scaled, and not native. Happy at least that its working at 5k now though.

As for the MacPro trashcan that I have, it is Thunderbolt 2 and not 3, so I am struggling to get that to work. I even purchased the external chassis and GPU, which don't seem to work at all on the trashcan MBPro via a Thunderbolt 2 to USB-C (Thunderbolt 3) adapter.

So, if anyone can assist with either of these issues, that would be amazing. Thank you to all for helping!

Hey! Are you still unable to get the 5120x1440 on external monitor? I uppose you require not apple made adapter (apple adapters are limited to 3840x1080). I was planning to purchase the MBP16 tomorrow and connect it to samsung crg9 with 5120x1440....but now will wait for your response

I posted pictures of the eGPU that I purchased. At every ic you scroll up you can find them?

I have a MacMini 2019, and I always update to the latest Mac Operating system.

I now get the 5K resolution, I don’t have it in front of me but it now looks great.

Yes the resolution is 5120x1440 with the eGPU. Without the eGPU you can't get 5120x1440 on the 2018 and the newest Mini's. the new Mac mini I have has a thunderbolt 3 cable from the Mac to the eGPU and from the eGPU to the monitor I use the DisplayPort cable.

Nope! Im using the usb-c cable that came with the monitor.. Im wondering if thunderbolt 3 cable would make any difference or just buy a DisplayPort to usbc.

Resolution FIXED https://www.reddit.com/user/pitjitsu/comments/e7q8do/49wl95c_mac_resolution_issue_fixed/

Try this http://resxtreme.com/

Work fine for me

I was about to move on purchasing this combo and was wondering if anyone has seen a fix or even an official acknowledgement of the issue. B&H Photo's staff claims in the Q&A section that there are no issues as the late 2018 Mac Mini, "supports resolutions of up to 1 monitor at 5120 x 2880 @ 60Hz via one of the Thunderbolt 3 ports." Are the problems mentioned port/cord related, or is there lack of support?

Yep, works for me too as I am wanting to separate out the screen into thirds in any case for software dev. I had a brief go at disabling spaces and having everything as one big area, I.e. good if you want to have a single window span the whole screen, but it is not 100% like a single screen, and not what I wanted anyway.

Hopefully this issue will be properly solved with a macOS update at some point, but I am happy enough with my workaround anyway.

Thank you! Works for me as well, but i can't scale UI to make text bigger :(

in Display settings i see only resolutions now without UI scale option

Definitely good solution, but hope apple add this monitor in next update

I do not understand how you're getting that resolution. When I plug my USB-C thunderbolt cable *or* my USB-C to Display port I am not given any different resolutions. I'm still seeing 3840 x 1080. The closes resolution I see is 2560 x 720. I do not see 2560 x 1440. how are you getting that resolution?

I would like to at least try splitting the screen in half to get 2560 x 1440 for both, but that's not working for me ATM. Is there some trick to it?

can you explain what you did what you see, this did not work for me?

Can you please walk me through the steps for using the monitor as 2 monitors. I cannot get that to work. Are there specific cables to make this work? I have a USB-C to USB-C thunderbolt 3 and a Moshi USB-C to DP. I assumed that when I connected the USB-C to PBP half screen I would get an optional resolution of 2560 x 1440, but I do not. I still only see 3840 x 1080 option

Hi. I have a 2013 MacPro, and the LG49Wl95C, but I can't seem to figure out how to get it to 5k. There is only one display port, and two HDMI's. How did you get the MacPro to go to 5k?

I have the AMD D700 graphics card.

Thanks.

I did almost the same thing (using two USB-C to Display Port cables), but I get a problem when placing a window with half the window on display 1 and the other half on display 2. This results in only having "half" of the window being displayed, the other half is "hidden" underneath the background image of the other screen. But when moving the window between the displays the full window is displayed.

Do you have the same issue?

I am using a Samsung 49" C49RG90.

Any News Guys?

I have used more than 10 different cables with no solution. Hardware is up to date. Catalina 10.15.1and it still doesn't work in 5K. Will Apple solve it? Without 5K this monitor makes no sense at all.

LG Support replied as follows:

The fact that both monitors have a defect I consider very excluded.

It worked before, as you wrote.

Probably you had installed an operating system between 10.14.2 beta and 10.15. so it all worked fine but before 10.14.2 and at 10.15. several problems occur in this context.

We would recommend him to install a system which is between the above mentioned systems.

Do you have a solution besides pip/pop mode and the artificial upscaled one?