BenQ XL2411Z Colours washed out

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Hi,

I recently got one of these monitors, mainly for CS GO, 144hz is great. The colours are fine in game, I have brightness pretty high and digital vibrance enabled too. However, when I return to windows, everything is stupidly bright and washed out.

Can anyone help me to find a compromise? If I turn the brightness down it just looks washed out but a bit darker. I'm not sure what's missing but my considerably cheaper and older 2nd monitor (some old HansG one) has far better colours.

I also notice the BENQ Display Pilot software likes to turn my monitor on/off about 10 times on boot, which can't be normal can it? Infact, that bit of software is extremely slow and unreliable. I might get rid of it all together, though it is handy to quickly switch monitor modes.

Thanks
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Had 2 benq xl2411z monitors myself. They both had the worst colours of any monitor ive ever owned, including bog standard generic 19" lcds from years and years ago.

I think its just the drawback from getting one of these 24" super responsive monitors, as the 144hz asus and aoc 24" variants are very similar from what I gather. Strangely my lg 120hz 23" has pretty nice colours by comparison, as did my 120hz 22" samsung and viewsonic before it. I also found the xl2720z to be very similar in response times to the xl2411z but with much better colours!

Basically the Benq xl2411z = worst colours ever but arguably the best screen out there for cs:go / quake or any competitive fast shooter. The only thing that I found which helped was gamma 3 on the monitor and increasing digital vibrancy a little in the nvidia drivers but it still looked quite rubbish compared to any modern 27" gaming panel (even tn), but is 27" getting a bit too big for serious competitive gaming? This was always my dilemma anyway!
 
Used to have one of these awhile back, the blacks on mine were almost purple horrible colours but it was fine for cs.
 
I have the AOC G2460PG which uses a later version of the panel in these monitors (I think). The colours on it are a lot better than they were on my old 144hz Benq (blacks and blues especially) while still keeping the same response times. Might be worth looking at one of those instead.

But yea, you won't get amazing colours on "gaming" monitors. It's either accurate colours or a fast response time. Even the expensive TNs have bad colours, the ROG Swift I had for a while had awful gamma levels as well, they were way off (a lot worse than my AOC's in fact).
 
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