Gaming monitor help

DJ85 · 12 Aug 2021 at 13:48

I've always been gaming on a TV and just switched to a monitor now. Would you be happy with the following pictures? Is it anything to be worried about. It seems to only be when I switch it on and I'm waiting for my laptop to connect, or really dark areas as shown, but gaming there are no issues. I've not had a lot of dealing with monitors.

Would it be wise to return it? And look again or try exchange for another one? Read good reviews about this one, reason why I got it.

Asus VG27AQ

Edit
Also seems OK when plugged into my series x could it be coming from my laptop screen?

Dup · 12 Aug 2021 at 14:12

That's backlight bleed (the edges) and the glow around the logo on the dark screen is glow which is common with an IPS panel.

Have a Google of this model and backlight bleed. Seems you're not the only one. You may find some calibration settings to help out with it, but if you're unhappy with it, it's certainly a cause to return it in my opinion. You'll only really notice with dark scenes and it might be better in motion. Also your ablient lighting can make it stand out more if the room is dark/dimly lit.

RedFluffy · 12 Aug 2021 at 14:19

You'll get used to it. The clouding and blacklight bleed also alleviates a fair amount after heavy usage, but the IPS glow (the corners of the screen) will remain more or less the same.

DJ85 · 12 Aug 2021 at 14:20

Thanks, I'll go have a Google of the model, is there a reason why it's fine playing Xbox and not on PC? I downloaded the calibration settings from rtings.com and installed them which helped a lot but dark scenes look like above. Can It get worse?I might have to go look for another option, would it be a gamble to exchange like for like or look for another.

Been a nightmare I've already just sent back an ultrawide VA monitor which was such a bad picture

DJ85 · 12 Aug 2021 at 14:21

RedFluffy said:
You'll get used to it. The clouding and blacklight bleed also alleviates a fair amount after heavy usage, but the IPS glow (the corners of the screen) will remain more or less the same.

I have only just had it a week

EsaT · 12 Aug 2021 at 14:47

David Flett said:
I downloaded the calibration settings from rtings.com and installed them...

Did you lower brightness/luminance to 0 they used?
If you keep high brightness, backlight just shines through.

DJ85 · 12 Aug 2021 at 15:10

My monitor is set to 50% brightness, I just downloaded the ICC profile and installed it, is there more to it

DJ85 · 12 Aug 2021 at 15:27

@EsaT I have just turned down the screen brightness to 0 and all backlight/bleed has disappeared altogether, looks a killing times better.
Thanks.

EsaT · 12 Aug 2021 at 16:08

And that's why all marketing hype about ever higher brightness is BS.
Until we have proper flat display tech with self emissive pixels/pixel level light control, all that high brightness does is blast through LCD matrix when those pixels should be dark.

As rule depending on if room illumination level is higher something like 10-15% brightness could be good for getting white to look white.
But any higher brightness setting than that is usually just bad and rapes black level.
And in case of this monitor already that 0 brightness gives over 100 nits.
For comparison typical monitor calibration for image processing use has such brightness as target for white.

DJ85 · 12 Aug 2021 at 16:21

I purchased this one mainly for the high Hz for playing on the series X. It had the best reviews of the ones I was looking at.
Out of the box it was set at 75% brightness and it was far to bright to play. I turned it down to 50% and it made it look better but colours weren't the best so looked on rtings where I found the post calibration file which helped but was noticing the pictures above.
I thought turning the brightness to 0% the picture would disappear totally.