Strange snow effect on monitor

Jonnibravo · 23 Jul 2023 at 07:57

My son has a gaming setup specs below, he's just bought himself a gaming/smart monitor Samsung Odyssey g6 240hz

Ryzen 5 2600
3060ti
MSI B450 vdh pro

A strange thing is happening though it's barely noticeable unless you know it's there which he does, like small dots almost like snow trickling down the screen in a line about 1cm width, this appears to happen every few minutes. I have had the monitor on my pc and it does not happen, any ideas what this could be. He's tried different cables, hdmi and display port so I'm confident it's not the monitor. The odd thing is it didn't happen on his lg gk32 650f 144hz monitor.

Personality+ · 23 Jul 2023 at 09:49

Try turning off vrr and gsync (if turned on) and see if it still happens.

sgavan · 23 Jul 2023 at 10:04

I had a Samsung and there was an issue on some sites, scanlines etc, this may be similar, I used the link below and the the first post to reproduce it on the ROG site. May be worth a test at least

https://linustechtips.com/topic/130...-issue-for-the-odyssey-g7-32-scanlines-issue/

danoliver1 · 23 Jul 2023 at 16:31

Try running the monitor at a lower refresh rate see if it disappears.

Jonnibravo · 24 Jul 2023 at 01:21

That's what I thought the refresh rate, thanks for the advice guys I'll try them and post back of there's any success

NaviHopes · 27 Aug 2023 at 15:06

Jonnibravo said:
That's what I thought the refresh rate, thanks for the advice guys I'll try them and post back of there's any success

have you figured out how to fix it? i have the same issue :/

Jonnibravo · 17 Sep 2023 at 02:36

NaviHopes said:
have you figured out how to fix it? i have the same issue :/

Sorry I took so long, No we believe it may be the motherboard, it's pretty basic(cheap), so I think its the combination of high end GPU and CPU coupled with the PSU and MB being pretty basic. I put the monitor on my setup for a day and it seemed to work fine, whats your setup?? Could you confirm any of what I have said.

NaviHopes · 18 Sep 2023 at 21:06

Jonnibravo said:
Sorry I took so long, No we believe it may be the motherboard, it's pretty basic(cheap), so I think its the combination of high end GPU and CPU coupled with the PSU and MB being pretty basic. I put the monitor on my setup for a day and it seemed to work fine, whats your setup?? Could you confirm any of what I have said.

actually, me and a redditor i met online believe we found a way to fix it! you need to open the nividia control panel and go to set up g-sync or just enable g-sync, i checked out all the boxes there and enabled it in windowed and full screen mode and my monitor works fine now!!
regarding the setup, i have B760 GAMING X DDR4 (not sure if i said it correctly) and geforce 4060 Ti, so i presume it is pretty powerful (as far as ive been told at least)