LG 27GL850-B Settings

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Hi

Thought I would post my settings for these amazing monitors, which work pretty well across all 3 of my monitors. They are all connected to my 2070 Super using 3m DisplayPort 1.4 cables. Every monitor is slightly different so these settings may not work for you but they gave me the best blend of look and feel in games, web browsing and clarity when working in Excel spreadsheets.

I use them in a medium lit room during the day for mainly work and in the evenings in a dimly lit room with one fllor lamp in the corner.

If I miss out any settings below that are on the menus it's because I didn't feel they either warranted reporting on or that I left them on default settings.

Game Mode Profile:
  • Gamer 1
Game Adjust:
  • Adaptive-Sync : On
  • Black Stabilizer : 40 (reduced from default of 50 as it helped make blacks more black instead of grey)
  • Response Time : Fast
Picture Adjust:
  • Brightness : 30-40 (reduced from default of 100)
  • Contrast : 70 (default)
  • Sharpness : 50 (default)
  • Gamma : Mode 2 (default)
  • Color Temp : Custom (default)
  • R/G/B : 54/48/50 (these made the picture feel a little warmer than the default of 50/50/50 but I still tinker with them every now and again and these are more your personal taste on how warm/cold you like your whites and colours)
  • DFC : Off (default)
General:
  • Smart Energy Saving : Off (change from On)
  • Power LED : On (this lights up the joystick under the front bezel)
  • Automatic Standby : 8h
  • Displayport 1.4 : Enable

In Windows I use the Generic driver for the screens as I didn't trust the one on LGs website as they had two drivers with no descripotion and both were pretty old. I also played around in the Colour Management section looking at different .ICC and .ICM profiles but for the life of me I couldn't tell any difference between them so left as default.

In the nVidia Control Panel I left everything as default apart from for GSync setting where I selected it to be enabled both for full-screen and windowed as I play most games windowed or I find that the game will minimise to the taskbar when I click on one of the other monitors during game play.

Finally I have one of the 3 screens also connected via HDMI into my laptop. On that screen I use the sRGB Game Mode Profile for HDMI with no changes to any other settings as that is what my laptop uses and I wanted the colours to match on both. When I flick to DP it uses the same setting as above. This is an amazing feature of the monitor which I don't recall having on other panels but I am sure other companies probably do ... the ability to have different brightness, color and other settings depending on the input selected.

Intrigued to see other people's setup and why but as I said each panel is different, each use of the monitor by the user is different and more importantly we all have different perception of colour, light etc. But hope this may help if you really don't like what it looks like out of the box :)
 
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ammotastic said:
That's a great post. I've had my panel for a couple of weeks and still tinkering with the settings, so will try your suggestions out and see what they return :)
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Let me know how you get on. Tweaked my backlight down to 30 as less hit on the eyes as I am using them more at night right now. Up it to 40 during the day if working from home.
 
Synodic said:
I find this monitor really bright, and had to drop the brightness down to 10. Even at that, it's still brighter than my previous Dell TN.
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Good thing you didn't buy a VA panel as that's so much brighter than IPS. Guess it depends how much light you have in your room but I personally found anything under 20 the colours didn't look as luxurious.
 
harmattan said:
Willikers, how are on earth these still on backorder in the UK? My sister back in the States has had hers since October last year -- and she just waltzed into Best Buy and bought it, no preorder. They're available at in stock at all the online shops.

Getting the UK/EU price shaft is one thing, but the delayed stock for everything is getting ridiculous.
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Overclockers now have free stock of these.
 
Overclockers deleted my new thread on the 27UL600 Settings and stuck my post here. No clue why as it's a totally different monitor.
 
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Mckenna90 said:
Hi all

So I have been a console gamer all my life I have a playstation 4 (base) and I plan on getting the ps5 but I have also been thinking of getting a gaming pc for 1440p gaming I have never had a gaming monitor before so I have been keeping my eye on this one the thing is because I still game on console a lot of the content I play would be 1080p and I'm wondering would this gaming monitor be good for both 1080p gaming (console) and 1440p gaming (pc) I have no interest in 4K just 1080p/1440p, thanks
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Monitors don't work well at a non-native resolution so 1080p will look horrid on a 1440p monitor.
 
There is a new crop of 240hz 1080p montiors getting launched by a few companies really soon. IMHO 22"/24" is best for 1080p from a dpi perspective, but 27" will look more special for gaming just not very nice for office work. Make sure to get an IPS screen as TN is dull as hell. I think Dell have an Alienware 27 coming soon that is IPS, 240hz and 27". The AW2720HF
 
Mckenna90 said:
As far as I know the playstation 4 doesn't do 1440p the ps5 is right around the corner and I have no doubt that it will do 1440p but because it will be backwards compatible with ps4 games I will still be playing a lot of my old games at 1080p so maybe I would be just better off getting a 1080p gaming monitor I just hope I pick a really good one lol
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It doesn’t work like that. If the PS5 can output 1440p then your old 1080p games will get upscale to 1440p so they will look nice

if you still want 1080p IMHO that Alienware looks amazing on paper and the reviews in the manufacturer website look amazing. I would buy one if I was in the market for 1080p on a 27” mainly for console use
 
spook2575 said:
Thanks for creating this thread. Mine should be arriving later this week so will try it out.
I saw you have a 2070S for a 3 monitor setup which means a 2060S should be good enough to drive a single at full resolution right?
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No. of monitors doesn't affect load actually as it's just outputs. Depends what you want game you want to run whether you'll get the full 144hz at 1440p.
 
It was on the 27GN950 under Picture Adjust.

In the Gamer 1 preset, all the LG 27GN950-B’s calibration controls are available. There are four gamma presets, three color temps, plus a custom mode, a method of selection by Kelvin value and a six-color hue and saturation menu. All adjustments are precise with fine resolution and excellent accuracy. Minor changes will produce a very accurate monitor.
 
OMG just realised that it's been exactly 1 year since I created this thread. I'm still loving all 3 of my 27GL850 monitors and 1440p at 144hz is still such a sweet spot with a 9900K and 2080 Super
 
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