I've checked mine over twice now on all colours, white and black and I have no dead/stuck pixels. Guess I am one of the lucky ones
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I've checked mine over twice now on all colours, white and black and I have no dead/stuck pixels. Guess I am one of the lucky ones
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Thank you chaps
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Just set mine up on the desk. Had a quick check for dead pixels, didn't see any. I aam not expecting zero dead pixels on such a screen anyway, this is 2x 27" monitor with a lot of pixels, I am expecting to see one somewhere but so far so good.
I'm about to go check the monitor for all possible flaws and will calibrate it because out of the box it's a mess. Will report back.
EDIT: Monitor is calibrated and it looks nice. I already found a couple of niggles. One is something I'm willing to overlook, that being no 3440x1440 support in any game I tried. The other one that I'm sure will end up driving me up the wall is that as soon as I change the refresh rate or toggle HDR on and then back off (or monitor goes to sleep, according to what I've read), the colour settings in the monitor settings are reset to 50/50/50. What kind of a joke is this, Samsung? I'm genuinely laughing in disbelief as to how this is even possible on a monitor these days!
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I'm on my 3rd, it has one dead pixel. It's still a keeper as for me it's better than anything else around and I can't be bothered to send it back for something which you literally never see...
Obviously it's each to his own, I fully understand that some would find that unacceptable.
Are you saying that you are unable to choose that res at all or are you saying that it's not a commonly supported aspect ratio?
I don't know if you're aware, but you need to add it as a custom resolution, it's not in the EDID by default. Also, you can only do it at 120Hz.
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Yeah, I managed to get it done by adding a custom resolution. Also fixed 2 more of my issues that I had.
1. the monitor now remembers it's RGB settings. The trick was to turn on HDR, set the RGB figures and then turn HDR off. Now the monitor remembers RGB all the time, which is great
2. had slight flickering in Factorio, fixed by turning VRR control to on.
I'd never even looked at the RGB settings.
I seem to remember noticing that it has differnt brightness settings for HDR/Non HDR. Sounds like it just has seperate image settings for each mode.
That's the same as my projector.
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I don't think you quite understood what my issue was. I'll try to explain.
I calibrate my monitors to 6500K, 2.2 gamma and 120 nits. To achieve 6500K, I have to mess with the monitor's RED/GREEN/BLUE values to achieve as close as possible to 6500K. This monitor was a touch too cold to I had to set the colours in the monitor settings to these values.
Red - 53
Green - 49
Blue - 47
Brightness was obviously way too high as well, to achieve 120 nits I set brightness to 10. Now the brightness is never a problem, it stays on 10 for SDR content and when switching to HDR, obviously brightness shoots up because you need brightness in HDR. But switching back to SDR puts brightness back to 10 so that's working as intended.
The problem was that after certain changes to the monitor (different refresh rate, monitor going to sleep, monitor switching to HDR and then back to SDR) put the RGB values back to the default 50/50/50, instead of the ones I set to achieve 6500K colour temperature.
The fix was to set my calibrated values (53/49/47) in HDR mode and then you can do whatever you want, the settings will stick. If you set them in SDR, they'll reset upon any of the changes I mention above.
This is really weird and I've never seen this happen on any monitor. I googled this for a while yesterday and there's quite a few threads complaining about this on various forums, I got tipped off about this trick on reddit and I'm not sure how many actually calibrate their monitors with a colourimeter but if you do, check your RGB values and if they're at default, do what I did to fix that.
Ah ok, I understand now. Thanks for explaining it. That's a wierd bug.
So upon those changes (Refresh/sleep etc) it will always reapply the 'HDR' settings and ignore anything you set while in 'SDR' mode? Admittedly I'm being lazy, I could try it myself
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Upon those changes, it would reset the RGB values in monitor settings to default 50/50/50. So say have the monitor all set up and calibrate it, you change the resolution in game to 3440x1440 at 120hz and game for a bit. When you come out of the game you'll notice that your desktop is not looking right. I noticed this yesterday after calibration and then messing with the monitor that the colour temperature was off, a touch cold. Checked the monitor RGB values and they were reset to 50/50/50. This would happen every time I changed refresh rate etc, basically rendering monitor calibration utterly pointless. Luckily, there is a trick to set the RGB values in HDR and then they stick.Ah ok, I understand now. Thanks for explaining it. That's a wierd bug.
So upon those changes (Refresh/sleep etc) it will always reapply the 'HDR' settings and ignore anything you set while in 'SDR' mode? Admittedly I'm being lazy, I could try it myself
I hope I'm making sense
It's an oversight on Samsung's side, I can't believe they can just release a monitor that doesn't remember RGB values set in monitor menu.
I emailed Samsung to ask them if they had an estimate on when my replacement would be delivered and they said:
"Our partner courier Concorde will contact you regarding the exact date and time of the delivery of the exchange unit and at the same time the collection of the faulty unit."
Has anyone heard of Concorde before? Not exactly a known company.
"Our partner courier Concorde will contact you regarding the exact date and time of the delivery of the exchange unit and at the same time the collection of the faulty unit."
Has anyone heard of Concorde before? Not exactly a known company.
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Never heard of them. Fingers crossed.
Upon those changes, it would reset the RGB values in monitor settings to default 50/50/50. So say have the monitor all set up and calibrate it, you change the resolution in game to 3440x1440 at 120hz and game for a bit. When you come out of the game you'll notice that your desktop is not looking right. I noticed this yesterday after calibration and then messing with the monitor that the colour temperature was off, a touch cold. Checked the monitor RGB values and they were reset to 50/50/50. This would happen every time I changed refresh rate etc, basically rendering monitor calibration utterly pointless. Luckily, there is a trick to set the RGB values in HDR and then they stick.
I hope I'm making sense
It's an oversight on Samsung's side, I can't believe they can just release a monitor that doesn't remember RGB values set in monitor menu.
Yes, I think we're saying the same thing.
The bug you're talking about means that it would keep reapplying the 50/50/50 setting, overwriting what you'd configured in SDR mode.
But, you're also saying that if you configured a non default RGB setting while in HDR mode, i.e. 40/40/40, then when the 'bug' is triggered it will apply whatever you set while in HDR mode, in this case, 40/40/40. But the settings you changed will apply to SDR mode too.
I was just wondering if it's just applying whatever has been set in HDR mode, or if once you've applied custom RGB settings in HDR mode, it 'unlocked' the ability to retain custom settings that were set in SDR mode...
Lol, I think we're on the same page
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Ah, I get you now. So basically, you have to use HDR mode to make your RGB values in monitor settings stick. Then they stick in both HDR and SDR. The brightness goes up in HDR though, automatically. I haven't calibrated HDR because I have no idea how to calibrate for both HDR and SDR on the same screen. From what I understand, it's quite tricky.Yes, I think we're saying the same thing.
The bug you're talking about means that it would keep reapplying the 50/50/50 setting, overwriting what you'd configured in SDR mode.
But, you're also saying that if you configured a non default RGB setting while in HDR mode, i.e. 40/40/40, then when the 'bug' is triggered it will apply whatever you set while in HDR mode, in this case, 40/40/40. But the settings you changed will apply to SDR mode too.
I was just wondering if it's just applying whatever has been set in HDR mode, or if once you've applied custom RGB settings in HDR mode, it 'unlocked' the ability to retain custom settings that were set in SDR mode...
Lol, I think we're on the same page
But to calibrate for SDR, which is what you'll be using 90% of the time anyway, you do it in SDR like you would on any monitor, but you have to note down the monitor RGB values when you're measuring colour temperature pre calibration and then you have to apply those values in HDR mode, otherwise they always reset to the default 50/50/50.
It's ridiculous but it works. I'm not even sure if anyone bothered with calibration of their G9 lol. It does look great once calibrated, I'll give Samsung this much.
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So after 6 months my G7 has died. The other night black horizontal lines appeared all over the screen out of no where while I was using it. At first thought it might be GPU but if I moved the Hz down to 120 the lines got fainter.
Then a couple of hours later while diagnosing the line issues the screen went black and only displayed the backlight and I couldn't get a picture up at all.
Messed around for ages with new display port cables and ports, resetting the monitor, the OSD wouldn't even work on the monitor itself.
Swapped it over with another monitor I have and everything fine.
So back to the reseller I guess, they want to diagnose it with the manufacturer in the phone Tuesday first.
For the price of this monitor I am quite disappointed, I never suffered from scan lines or other problems prior to this
Then a couple of hours later while diagnosing the line issues the screen went black and only displayed the backlight and I couldn't get a picture up at all.
Messed around for ages with new display port cables and ports, resetting the monitor, the OSD wouldn't even work on the monitor itself.
Swapped it over with another monitor I have and everything fine.
So back to the reseller I guess, they want to diagnose it with the manufacturer in the phone Tuesday first.
For the price of this monitor I am quite disappointed, I never suffered from scan lines or other problems prior to this
I could not live with the G7 (before the VRR Firmware which can add scanlines ) I had minimum flicker but the long time to power back up out of standby (like 5+seconds and a Windows Ding sound sometimes) and moving all programme windows around drove me nuts.
By my reading they all had some flicker just some people do not notice it, the test backgrounds on Reddit showed that up.
All Samsung had to do was to let users have access to the DP/HDMI Deep Sleep options others do and disabling that would power up/standby fix this issue (works on my Lenovo VA Samsung
Panel).
Even the method to power it off via a menu was tedious.
By my reading they all had some flicker just some people do not notice it, the test backgrounds on Reddit showed that up.
All Samsung had to do was to let users have access to the DP/HDMI Deep Sleep options others do and disabling that would power up/standby fix this issue (works on my Lenovo VA Samsung
Panel).
Even the method to power it off via a menu was tedious.
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Quick question regarding DisplayPort cables. I've been using my old DisplayPort cable that came with my previous monitor. That monitor only had DP1.2 ports on the back (1440p/165hz). Is there a difference in DP cables? Are there 1.2 and 1.4 cables? If so, I will be switching to the cable that came with the G9.
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Yeah, I didn't think there was any certification for cables either but just googled it and some websites talk about 1.2 cables and 1.4 cables. Anyway, chances are the cable that came with the G9 will be of higher quality as the monitor is quite high resolution and refresh rate. That being said, I also wouldn't be surprised if Samsung bundled an inadequate cable.
I read same and you see same marketing for Ethernet cable like Cat 6e (does not exist) and some fake Cat7-8 cables, I did read Samsung bundled a poor quality cable with the G9 but than again this was on Reddit but some claimed they swapped to better quality cable and got full RES/HZ.
I had the 32" G7 so it was fine with the bundled cable but I did buy a better quality one to see if it helped the flickering right at launch.
I had the 32" G7 so it was fine with the bundled cable but I did buy a better quality one to see if it helped the flickering right at launch.