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Aww I should have subscribed to this thread to see your original post!
Would agree that I seem to be a magnet for receiving bad monitors!
Would agree that I seem to be a magnet for receiving bad monitors!
I also think that a lot of them are more under 2.2 than not. But I hope that it's easy to rectify for those who are bothered by it.@Davanius it sounds like your unit tracks 2.2 gamma closer than others, including mine, as his ICC profile was designed to correct panels targetting 1.9
I am using the Standard preset. RTS preset appears to add halo's around fonts which I found distracting. I have ran the windows display calibrator and have adjusted the gamma as such that the dots in the middle aren't visible. I have made no other picture changes.
I am happy with how it looks, though i did discover while I had my AOC IPS hooked up too, that it was targetting 2.3-2.4, making things look richer (and darker) than it should.
To be honest, I am not sure if the monitor not tracking 2.2 out of the box is a fault, and if having to correct it with ICC profiles is acceptable, especially when other users are getting panels that are more accurate out of the box, and don't need any software correction.
But from looking at reviews, reddit etc it seems that there are more panels tracking 1.9 than there are 2.2.
http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/gamma_calibration.php
My monitor out of the box looked really washed out. I am not sure how anyone can live with colours as muted and dull as they do on an S2719DGF with gamma tracking 1.9.
I made sure to buy a quality Accell display port cable a few years ago. Been using it ever since and don't bother with bundled cables whatsoever.
It may have been an Asus or Samsung monitor that didn't play nice with the bundled cable.
I actually just had to change the o.s.d setting Fiddling with it last night had it in a setting I was not use to. Well spotted! I should have edited the post (edit I did have to change brightness but the panel is displaying things slightly differently so tweaking more is understandable).
D.P's resolved the issues in one game, also more responsive, issue with text I did not know I had has also been resolved. Having to make sure I run a couple of titles in borderless rather than full screen so not fully gone.
For some reason altering the windowed mode also alters some of the over sharpness of RTS I find. But then my monitor seems to have its own particular faults that require some software adjustment.
According to the lagom test the channels blend at 2.2 with exception to the red which is at 2.1 on my unit. That's on standard preset without any ICC.
It's uses a light matt finish without the grainy look some displays have. I quite like it but it's not glossy.