Iiyama GB3466WQSU-B1 Curve (1500R) 34” 1440 144Hz VA panel FreeSync Premium Pro

Anyone tried the cu34g2x aoc drivers? Might be worth a shot, same panel. Could brick it though.
Just watching a film on it now with DIY ambilight, gamma at 2.6 it looks fantastic, really don't want to return it for the flicker
 
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I discover a defect pixel yesterday (bummer) so I contacted the store. We initially agreed on exchanging it for a new one but later they advised a refund. The store had just received word from Iiyama that the latest batch of this model has a technical issue, which Iiyama had confirmed on their test units.
I'm going to return the monitor and wait for the issue to be fixed. Or maybe look elsewhere, but bang-for-buck this monitor is very hard to beat.
 
Theres a lot less/no flicker when I make a custom resolution in nvidia control panel and set it at 130hz, then edit the freesync range in CRU to 50-130hz. Installed the AOC driver but that made no difference. Illyama doesn't even have a colour profile out for this screen yet.
 
That's interesting. I found when making a custom resolution and set the screen to 120Hz the flicker disappeared but the colour dropped down to 6 bit from 10 bit.

Approaching a week with the monitor now and I've yet to hear from Iiyama about what they want to do next. Not sure now if it's worth RMA just yet.
 
Gave up and requested an RMA. It’s going to be packed up tonight. Really wish I didn’t have to. Tried every voodoo fix possible but if Iiyama claim it’s a faulty batch then game over for me.
 
I discover a defect pixel yesterday (bummer) so I contacted the store. We initially agreed on exchanging it for a new one but later they advised a refund. The store had just received word from Iiyama that the latest batch of this model has a technical issue, which Iiyama had confirmed on their test units.
I'm going to return the monitor and wait for the issue to be fixed. Or maybe look elsewhere, but bang-for-buck this monitor is very hard to beat.
Now that's a far more serious issue. That means all the preordered units are potentially exposed to the technical fault and should be returned unless Iyyama finds a way to fix it without sending them the monitor.
 
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So I have this monitor.

Every few minutes I get a whiteish pink line, about an inch thick, flash across the whole top or bottom of the display. Sometimes it has a popping noise to it too. I am also finding the colours to be a little washed out.

I have it set to 144hz
FreeSync: On
DP mode: 1.4 (using the supplied cable)
HDR: On
OverDrive: Off

This is my first monitor and compared to my dell XPS laptop the colours look really poor!

Anyone else having this issue?
 
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I have a way that I think it's working acceptable. I will say, the problem is not solved for 144Hz, but for me this is acceptable:
I created a new resolution of 3440x1440 by 141Hz (140Hz gave me strange artifacts on the OSD), and 142Hz or 143Hz was displayed on the OSD as 144Hz and the flickering still occurd. But when you set it to 141Hz, the flickering is gone. I still have FreeSync and G-Sync enabled.

Also someone on the Dutch forum Tweakers wrote that his issues where gone when he put it to 146Hz. Unfortunately for me this causes enormous frame skipping. You can test frame skipping here: https://www.testufo.com/frameskipping
You need to set your (smartphone) camera to take photos with an exposure of 1/10. You need to have a straight line of frames without any skips. When I put my screen to 146Hz it looks like this:
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As you can see a lot of skipping frames. At 144Hz (and 141Hz), it looks like this:
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To make it easy for you I exported my CRU config. I've includes both 141Hz and 146Hz so you can test the setting you'd like. CRU file download: https://gofile.io/d/Oa2CIh

You can change these setting yourself by doing this:
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Open CRU, in the "Extension blocks" part of the screen click "DisplayID" (if not exist, create it), click add, click add now create new resolutions of 3440x1440 by 141Hz and 146Hz.
 
^^^ massively helpful post - I haven't bought this monitor yet but if I do decide to go for it will try these out! Thanks for your time and effort.
 
Open CRU, in the "Extension blocks" part of the screen click "DisplayID" (if not exist, create it), click add, click add now create new resolutions of 3440x1440 by 141Hz and 146Hz.

Thanks for posting this. I gave this a try however I found for 141Hz, the flicker remains and for 146Hz, I get no flickering and I do not get any frame skipping from my early testing however in the OSD it does not show as FREESYNC so I am wondering whether FreeSync is actually turned on at that resolution and hence the flickering disappears.
 
I've just spotted that a site had it in stock, despite all the potential issues I couldn't resist so i've got one arriving on Sunday.

Hopefully all the useful info above helps if I do have issues which seems quite likely.
 
Yeah at this price a monitor with such specs sounds like a bargain and admittedly pretty hard to resist! I acknowledged the defeat and still decided to keep the monitor rather than go for RMA but that's only because I can live without Fressync.
 
Ok I tried that method
Open CRU, in the "Extension blocks" part of the screen click "DisplayID" (if not exist, create it), click add, click add now create new resolutions of 3440x1440 by 141Hz and 146Hz.

I dont want to say the flicker is gone just yet (pendulum demo is hit and miss, and below the 48hz the flicker is back) but playing doom around 90fps I didnt notice any, haven't got the better cable yet but this does seem to have massively helped, tried at 141hz. If you do it in CRU like described rather than a custom res in nvidia you can set the bit depth back to 10 :)
 
Iiyama support got back to me and said that they do not have new stock of the monitor yet but when they do the courier will deliver the replacement and collect the faulty monitor at the same time. This is an ideal solution so will wait for that.

In the meantime the monitor is great for work when FreeSync is off and in the middle of games not overly noticeable so the monitor is usable.
 
That dutch forum has some news-
Hopefully good news ..... They have a new Firmware !!
Iiyama comes by this afternoon (since I live fairly close by) to test it.
Firmware cannot be done by yourself ...
Damn, probs need to rma

Iiyama support got back to me and said that they do not have new stock of the monitor yet but when they do the courier will deliver the replacement and collect the faulty monitor at the same time. This is an ideal solution so will wait for that.
I emailed iiyama days ago and have had no response, did you phone them?
 
Positive to hear that a fix is ready. Interesting to read that it's being applied onsite in the home during lockdown restrictions etc.

I emailed iiyama days ago and have had no response, did you phone them?

I initially sent a query using the service form on their website and then was emailed for serial number and proof of purchase before being handed off to their repair centre (an authorised third party it seems?)
 
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