Hardware & Technical New Monitor Help

Broon

Broon
Ok so a few days ago I picked up a 2k monitor and while it looks great I have been having an issue that is bothersome but not deal breaking.

When I scroll through a dark web page (like the ED forums) or even play ED things change colors and sort of blur. It's weird and my 1080p 60Hz monitor didn't do such things, or if it did it was not noticeable. Maybe there is a setting I am not tweaking right or maybe it's just the way higher resolution monitors act.

I suppose I could call Acer Support and sit on hold and talk to them but I decided to ask the uber guru's here first for advice. This is the monitor... https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824011234

My rig, if it matters, is an i5-4460 @3.2 GHz, 16GB DDR3, EVGA FTW2 GTX 1080.

I am running pretty much stock settings on the display. For the video below the monitor is set on Graphics mode (Bright 97, contrast 60, black boost 5, bluelight off, supersharp off, gamma 22, color temp warm, overdrive normal, FreeSync OFF) but it does the goofyness in any mode I choose.

Turning off Hardware Acceleration in Firefox helped some with the web pages but it's still weird.

Settings in ED are 2560x1440, 144Hz, Vertical Sync On, Quality Ultra, Anti-aliasing SMAA, Supersampling x1.0, Gamma 50%.

So in the clip watch the orbit lines and see how they fade and "red out" as I pitch and roll. Yaw along the lines didn't seem to have much of an effect. The same color change and fade/blur happens when scrolling a darker web page.

[video=youtube_share;LiF7NwASXrY]https://youtu.be/LiF7NwASXrY[/video]

Ok wow thats a crappy video but maybe y'all can see what I am talking about. If not I will try to capture a clip with better quality. This is actually my VERY FIRST video capture ever and first video upload to youtube ever as well. I guess my quality settings in GFE are set to low or maybe my Youtube acct needs set up better.

So does anyone have any ideas what is up or have had any similar experiences?
 

Morbad

Morbad
That video is entirely unhelpful, as would any video not recorded by a good camera, rather than a screen capture utility, because no screen capture utility will capture any properties of the physical display.

Anyway, you have a VA panel. This panel type has superb contrast, good color, and good view angles, but relatively slow pixel response. This slow pixel response usually prompts manufacturers to use large amounts of RTC (response time compensation) to minimize motion blur, but which can itself lead to artifacting known as overshoot ghosting.

Try playing with the "overdrive" settings as this is the level of RTC applied. Lower setting will have more traditional ghosting/motion blur, higher settings will have more overshoot. There will usually be an acceptable option in the middle.

Also, calibrate your display, even if you do it via eyeballing. I'd recommend opening http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/ in FireFox or IE (Chrome and Chromium based browsers crap up the colors and contrast) and making sure each image looks as close to the ideal they describe as possible.
 

Broon

Broon
Ok thanks. I checked out the link a bit and it looks like I need to spend a bit of time on it to get the calibration squared away and see how that works out.

Now I just need to get my other video project knitted together (old VHS home videos of passed on puppies/dogs) and burned to DVD for the wife for Christmas and I'll have lots of time to play with the monitor. :D
 

Snowbullet

Snowbullet
Cmdr BrinBrown said:
Desktop is 1080, in 4k everything is too small.
Click to expand...

Set the resoultion to 4k and the scaling in windows to 200%. Text will look incredible since it will be displayed in four times more pixels while it will still be equal to 1080p in other ways.

It will become a retina display.

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