The Asus ROG SWIFT PG278Q – a 27” 1400p 144Hz Monitor with G-SYNC

andybird123 said:
As Rroff says, i have my brightness turned up on the monitor itself and then gamma down to about .9 in NVCP
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Seems to be the best way - I resisted for awhile as I prefer to do as much as possible through the OSD and an ICC profile if I have to but there was no other way to get the gamma level I wanted and my friend who normally does it isn't available atm. (Could get the kit myself I guess but its best left to someone who really knows what they are doing IMO).
 
Klunt Bumskrint said:
Anyone have a good profile and nvidia/osd setting for the swift. I've been fiddling with it but I can't get it quite right.
My mate calibrated it at the weekend wioth a Colour Munki but it's not bright enough. I like it bright but want blacks to be black.
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I used a Colour Munki to calibrate. Then added some nividia digital vibrance (52%) then set contrast to (45%) to make blacks blacker. As for brightness i go between 40-60% depending on lighting conditions.
 
Tried cod advanced warfare on this using ULMB at 85hz (chose that since mp fps has a max of 90). It looks phenominal, can actually read text on walls when strafing. It's close to how games look on my plasma (though not quite as good). I think any game where a high enough fps can be maintained this is the way to go.
 
Mr Fujisawa said:
Tried cod advanced warfare on this using ULMB at 85hz (chose that since mp fps has a max of 90). It looks phenominal, can actually read text on walls when strafing. It's close to how games look on my plasma (though not quite as good). I think any game where a high enough fps can be maintained this is the way to go.
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Will try that tonight. Played bf4 last night and went 2.0 on the k/d a first for a long long time, It felt more fluid to. Fired up dayz and wasn't impressed, probably the crap engine, I was seeing blur around the edges and a strange sickly wobble effect... None of this was in game mechanics so can only say something must have changed with the new screen tech.
 
Hey guys, would the Swift be a worth while purchase for someone with a Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming edition paired with a 2500k @ 4ghz ?

Also does anyone have any experience with buying B grade monitors from OCUK? £500 seems like a good deal if the monitor has only minor faults or missing packaging
 
Can see background flickering with ULMB at 85Hz like old 60Hz CRTs :( shame as the brightness is almost good enough to make it worth using.

COD has an 85 max fps IIRC btw just the maths precision means its calculated at 90 fps (related to why the unmodified engine has a physics advantage at 125fps, etc.).
 
Been following that thread and a few others since the release of this, been waiting for an acknowledgment from Asus but problems seem to be gathering pace. Really wanted this monitor but am gonna take a punt on something else.
 
I sent my 2nd Swift back today. The vertical pixel inversion was just too apparent in Far Cry 4 (Sky scenes and peoples faces (blues/oranges/browns), I quit the game and raised an RMA. You Tube videos look like interlaced video but vertical! Now how did that pass Development/QA? ANY horizonal motion even in Windows causes this to happen (Title bars especially)

I won't be getting another one. If in six months the problems are gone, fine but I would imagine there will be some competition by then. I am going to be trying an Eizo FG2421 (24" I KNOW! But now that I have seen what a rog swift can do when it works (my 1st one before it died) and just how blurry an IPS 27" is The Eizo MIGHT fill the gap if it is good as it says it is)
 
If I could not see that horrid vertical noise then i would be happy, it did not take long for me to notice it so I don't know if people that cannot see it just do not have this specific problem. I just know now my 1st one didn't have it.
 
jh30uk said:
The Eizo is said to be the best but 24" 1080p is hard to go back to.
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I thinking using my 980 SLI in DSR (This will now work that I do not have a Swift anymore :P) may make up for it. The Eizo has good contrast ratios are good on paper but I am yet to try it as it is coming today. I am just really interested to see how fast the panel is in terms of motion blur (as mentioned earlier a IPS i tried last week was terrible for motion blur!).

I will just have to get used to the size if everything else is fine - i just want good focused gaming - until something is sorted out in 27" land.
 
Sorry to hear about your swift probs. don't want to make you feel worse, but I tried the eizo you're getting about 6 months ago. Sent it back as it was terrible, had a 2 inch brighter strip down the right hand side (not light bleed, a different specific problem) and had awful ghosting and trails in games.

After reading up on the issues it sounded like this eizo is plagued with issues, unless you get lucky.
 
Well this is discouraging. My wife bought me a Swift for Xmas, it's all wrapped and ready to go. Might have to return it. Has anyone not had trouble with theirs?
 
My first Swift died completely inside a week and got exchanged by OcUK for a new one. I was one of the very first buyers.

My 2nd Swift is perfect and has zero issues, these inversion artifacts people are talking about are not present on it.

I talked a friend into buying one, his is also perfect.
 
Diddums said:
Well this is discouraging. My wife bought me a Swift for Xmas, it's all wrapped and ready to go. Might have to return it. Has anyone not had trouble with theirs?
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I can see inversion artifacts but its not that bad, i play at 120hz which apparently minimises it. The matte coating can be a bit distracting if you arent used to it, but I'm getting more used to it now.

These are the only 2 negatives for me. It's a fantastic monitor in every other way and so versatile (G-SYNC, ULMB, 3D)
 
OCUK should open them up and do some QC checks before sending them out as there are clearly common problems with them but you seem to get a few which are fine...
 
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