Is dell s2721dgfa supposed to have very heavy ghosting?

[The Mike]

I have used this monitor for like half a year now.

The picture has always looked crisp and clear, but I started to notice heavy ghosting and now I can't unsee it.

The picture gets very pixelated /distorted when bright and dark colors meet on the image, and it's pretty heavy and could look like ghosting.

Tried reinstall drivers ddu reset monitor update monitor drivers etc but nothing helps.

If there's too much bright and dark colors that meets each other it gets smeared out and kinds look like a streaming video that gets pixelated.

It only occurs heavily on the colors.

In csgo it happens a lot on de dust map.
https://youtu.be/i-2lqk4eYbY

Dark colors stutter down the corridor and gets smeared out or getting static noise around areas like this.

Orig clip for comparison

https://youtu.be/KNJGmIcn8UY

Csgo is bar far one of the heavy victims of this. I don't get this at all in Diablo 3. However, I can get a minor feeling of screen tearing of some sort, though it feels minor.

With warframe it seems to be noticeable only on the spaceship and a tiny bit on a specific area.

It is also very minor noticeable in smite, but not as annoying.


I also notice it in doom, like how it's kinda hanging image of the structure in the middle

https://youtu.be/JNL1zwEj230

I don't seem to have this issue at all in new world.

I don't know if I have a faulty display, or it is some setting I need to change.

I'm running g sync on v sync in nvcp and tried any OD setting. Graphic drivers up to date etc. I don't really know what else I could change or if the display simply is faulty. Weird thing is it only happens in some games.

 

[The Mike]

But then I can't use g sync, which is why I bought the monitor.

 

[The Mike]

Course you can.

If you turn on g sync it "locks" to the fast response time. Changing the response time doesn't affect anything when g sync is on on this monitor.

 

[The Mike]

Of course I can, but it doesn't seem to have an effect when g sync is on.

When my g sync is on then nothing changes when I go from super, super fast and extreme.

However, when g sync is off then there's a difference between the overdrive options

 

[The Mike]

Tried super fast with g sync on, still same problem.

Is the monitor just slow with inverse ghosting or what it is, or is there a problem? And if yes what could it be

 

[The Mike]

Perhaps try with a different PC if you get the chance

I have, the same issue persist.

Unsure, am just installing CS GO to have a look myself, I cant really tell whats happening in the youtube vid.

I know, it is really hard to see on the recorded footage as its really hard to replicate.

It's like the response time is very slow and that the black colors refresh to slow which makes ghosting.

What's weird is if I cap to 60 fps the problem kinda gets eliminated, at the expense of running 60 fps. The higher I go the more ghosting I get.

And I got a 2070s and have steady 165 fps so shouldn't be the problem either.

 

[The Mike]

I know it's not fixing the issue but do you need sync at such high refresh rates/fps?

I don't know but every g sync guide I've seen they say I should have v sync and a fps limiter when using g sync.

 

[The Mike]

Well, it is noticeable, but besides that should this be a problem on this monitor?

 

[The Mike]

EDIT:

I tried everything off, g sync and so on, and to be honest there is no difference between g sync on and off. Could that mean my G Sync module is defect or that its just not needed at that fps?

However, the inverse ghosting still persists. I see no big difference between fast and super fast, but I can see when using Extreme that it is the same areas that gets ghosting, just much much worse with extreme enabled.

So it is inverse ghosting, and it seems like you cant do anything about it since the slowest reponse time is fast. There is no normal or off.

Update 2:

The weird thing is it seems to be mostly there. Right on Dust 2. But the most weird thing is that if I record it with game recording software, it looks like that when I view it on the uplodated youtube link, but when I watch it on my tv, it doesnt have the problem. It seems like its the places where I tend to get screen tearing this happens.

On Dust 2 I get screen tearing only on that passage and on the upper part of the same bomb site. Everywhere else I get zero screen tearing or these issues.

That tends to lead it could be a performance problem, but yet again, watching the clip on my monitor still causes the problem, while its not noticeable on my TV.

 

[The Mike]

Hmm, seems ok to me, tried with vsync on and off, on capped to 165 fps obvs, off ran about 350 fps @ 1440p

So not sure.

So picture is sharp for you, and no black ghosting or flickering?

Edit: capping to 165 gives me screen tearing.

 

[The Mike]

I had similar issue but turning off extreme overdrive sorted it.

I have it on both fast, super fast and extreme, where extreme is of course a lot worse.

It seems like an overdrive issue, because it is the same areas on the picture that is affected, just with extreme having heavy ghosting, where fast has less but still very noticeable. But it is still only certain places.

Where I have the ghosting thing is the same places I get screen tearing with everything turned off.

Is HDR turned on in Windows?

Turned off both on OSD and in Windows 10.

Yes seems ok to me, no flickering and not ghosting as far as I can tell. 3080 FE connected via DP

So it is probably a faulty monitor. It just seems very weird tbh.

Is it an IPS thing I am prone to see? My Huawei p20 has an IPS screen and I believe I can also see it there, while the TVs I have are LEDs which doesnt do it.

I am just certain that it hasnt always done this.

It doesnt really make any sense, because it is only some places it happens, and it is places that are prone to gets screen tearing without a cap. What on earth can cause this.

Its not a faulty GFX card or cable, because it happens on my other PC as well.

 

[The Mike]

The next best thing to do would be to try with another IPS 165 Hz GSync monitor.

Where are you based?

I am from Denmark, and dont know anyone with a similar monitor. Dell wants to send me a new one, but I want to test everything first.

I dont know if its something thats tricking my mind, but I think setting output color from 8 bpc to 10bpc seems to have fixed it a bit? Theres still some, but it is much less noticeable now.

But maybe thats something that tricks my mind, because I have read somewhere that this monitor is a 8bpc monitor and not 10.

 

[The Mike]

Oh well might go for it, I cant eliminate the dark colors ghosting.

 

[The Mike]

Update: Just got my new monitor yesterday, and tried it today. Seems like the old one's display has some sort of defect, because the new one doesn't do it. There's still a little "noise", but nowhere near that bad.

 

[The Mike]

I want to hear your opinion about the yellow tint at the sides of my monitor.