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

[Speed]

It doesn't do that on mine. Does it revert back if you set the hz in the control panel rather than use the turbo button?

Yeah my bad, such a rookie mistake lol. Guess I was too busy trying to get BF4 to run properly... and failing at that.

Have you set the refresh rate to 120/144Hz when in Nvidia control panel or through windows display settings?

It sounds like your desktop is set to 60Hz...

Any reason why 120Hz instead of 144Hz?


While you're in the Nvidia control panel, go to "Adjust desktop colour settings", select "use NVIDIA settings" and play around with the following settings:

Reduce gamma to 0.85-0.90
Increase digital vibrancy to 55-65%

I like how that improves the colours compared to the IPS monitor it is sitting next to. Still not quite up to par of course... but I like it and others in this thread have come to similar settings.

Thanks, yeah that was it. Quite a few people have had issues running at 144Hz and I have enough problems without adding to them, so stuck with 120Hz.

Excellent, I'll give those colour settings a go. What monitor settings do you have? User with RGB 95/100/100 I saw mentioned somewhere.

 

[setter]

Got mine yesterday, so far so good, very pleased with it. For a TN panel its colour reproduction is excellent, not quite IPS good but very nice none the less. Still not 100% I'm going to keep it but we shall see how it goes over the next few weeks, if I can run BF4 without it crashing every 5 minutes I'd be able to test it better! lol

Only slight niggle I'm having is it seems to default back to 60Hz when I Alt-Tab out of BF4, so I have to use the Turbo button to get it back to 120Hz. Is there away around this or am I doing something wrong?

When bf4 does run mate, how's performance with 780ti sli? Looking to buy the swift soon myself and will be using 780 sli, maybe with a mild oc. Incidentally, what type of error are you getting on bf4? And tried the usual repair install of the main game and expansions, also better to disable origin in game.

 

[spot35]

Two 780ti are getting 87.8 fps on BF4 @ 1440p Ultra preset -

http://www.digitalstormonline.com/unlocked/images/articles/Nav/gtx780ti/bf41440p.jpg

So, whilst you won't be getting the 120hz goodness, you will get excellent framerates.

 

[setter]

This is the last quick bench i ran using DSR, 2560x1600. Normal res is 1920x1200.

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
64462, 600000, 68, 144, 107.437

Thats on max settings with x4 msaa.

 

[fantasticCG]

Depends on settings - MSAA is rubbish in BF4. I run zero AA and ultra mesh and textures and get solid 135fps.

That cant be right? everything ultra except MSAA turned off?
Just tested BF4 on 64 player Siege of shanghai on a single titan non black.
75fps then switched to 3 of them had 115fps and these weren't solid numbers

 

[Rroff]

Yeah my bad, such a rookie mistake lol. Guess I was too busy trying to get BF4 to run properly... and failing at that.



Thanks, yeah that was it. Quite a few people have had issues running at 144Hz and I have enough problems without adding to them, so stuck with 120Hz.

Excellent, I'll give those colour settings a go. What monitor settings do you have? User with RGB 95/100/100 I saw mentioned somewhere.

You might find that after a couple of weeks 95/95/100 works better - seems the panel (atleast mine and I've seen posts by others that suggests the same) needs a little while to "settle" in for some reason. Mine was very red out the box but now is far more balanced.

I have no idea why Asus didn't implement some gamma settings in the OSD as it makes a huge difference to the picture quality I have a feeling it might be to try and hide the grainy whites by "blooming" over it.

I'm also pretty convinced they are wringing the **** out of the panels to get 144Hz again atleast on mine everything just works so much better at 120Hz and I'm very happy with 120Hz.

 

[crinkleshoes]

Yeah my bad, such a rookie mistake lol. Guess I was too busy trying to get BF4 to run properly... and failing at that.



Thanks, yeah that was it. Quite a few people have had issues running at 144Hz and I have enough problems without adding to them, so stuck with 120Hz.

Excellent, I'll give those colour settings a go. What monitor settings do you have? User with RGB 95/100/100 I saw mentioned somewhere.

Some have set that, I've left mine on 100/100/100

 

[Speed]

When bf4 does run mate, how's performance with 780ti sli? Looking to buy the swift soon myself and will be using 780 sli, maybe with a mild oc. Incidentally, what type of error are you getting on bf4? And tried the usual repair install of the main game and expansions, also better to disable origin in game.

Pretty decent, couldn't tell you exact numbers as I've gotten fed up with trying to get it to work now. Around 100FPS on average I would say with a stock clocked i7 4770K (removed the Overclock during my troubleshooting).

Edit. Seems I'm using the GeForce Experience settings and 120Hz playing mostly large open maps.

You might find that after a couple of weeks 95/95/100 works better - seems the panel (atleast mine and I've seen posts by others that suggests the same) needs a little while to "settle" in for some reason. Mine was very red out the box but now is far more balanced.

I have no idea why Asus didn't implement some gamma settings in the OSD as it makes a huge difference to the picture quality I have a feeling it might be to try and hide the grainy whites by "blooming" over it.

I'm also pretty convinced they are wringing the **** out of the panels to get 144Hz again atleast on mine everything just works so much better at 120Hz and I'm very happy with 120Hz.

Mines 2nd hand so shouldn't be much of an issue there, but thanks for the heads up.

 

[setter]

Pretty decent, couldn't tell you exact numbers as I've gotten fed up with trying to get it to work now. Around 100FPS on average I would say with a stock clocked i7 4770K (removed the Overclock during my troubleshooting).

Edit. Seems I'm using the GeForce Experience settings and 120Hz playing mostly large open maps.

Pretty similair to mine, though lately ive been running on low with fps capped to 60. Helps with temps a great deal. But at least i know the setup should be grand with the higher res of the swift.

 

[Speed]

Pretty similair to mine, though lately ive been running on low with fps capped to 60. Helps with temps a great deal. But at least i know the setup should be grand with the higher res of the swift.

Should be great yeah. As for the issues it just seems to lockup after 10-20 minutes of gameplay and I've tried all sorts. When it happens the gameplay freezes, monitor goes into standby for a brief second, then back to a black page. Sometimes I can move the mouse around but I can't for the life of me get back to the desktop regardless of what I try, so end up rebooting. I'm not really playing any other GPU intensive games, so hard to say but it feels BF4 specific. I've ran Heaven on max settings for an hour + a benchmark at the end without issue. Other games like War Thunder seem fine. I've only ever had the one error message and that was a DirectX "GetDeviceRemovedReason" with the usual DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG.

Temps are fine, also tried a high % fan speed on both cards to be certain it isn't heat related. Cards have been reseated, PCI-E extensions reseated, fresh install of the drivers with a driver cleaner. As mentioned I've removed any overclocks including CPU. Fresh install/download of BF4 as the previous was a move of original game files from 9 months or so ago off my NAS + download of updates to save time.

Might swap the cards around today but its going to be a headache as the PCI-E x1 extension cable might not make it over the Classy in the second slot and to the sound card.

 

[Supa Koopa]

BF4 is very sensitive to overclocks of any kind. My system will happily run at 4.6ghz and the gpus at 1,200 and get bench for as long as I like. To be totally stable in games especially BF4 I have to run at 4.4 and 1,100. Just something to check.

 

[setter]

Running an oc of 4.7ghz on 1.300v, never had any crashes due to cpu oc's thankfully. The game was pretty buggy for a long time. But for me personally it's running very well theese days. I do get pretty high temps on my top card sometimes, (upto 80c) but thats to be expected with two non ref cards jammed close together.

 

[Speed]

Yeah the CPU overclock was the first thing I removed, currently testing it by underclocking the cards. Did one with the GPU clocks as far down as EVGA Precision X would let me, still crashed, now doing GPU and memory underclocking.

 

[setter]

Did you try disabling origin in game, and also repair install? If you have any expansions, worth checking install on them too.

 

[crinkleshoes]

Should be great yeah. As for the issues it just seems to lockup after 10-20 minutes of gameplay and I've tried all sorts. When it happens the gameplay freezes, monitor goes into standby for a brief second, then back to a black page. Sometimes I can move the mouse around but I can't for the life of me get back to the desktop regardless of what I try, so end up rebooting. I'm not really playing any other GPU intensive games, so hard to say but it feels BF4 specific. I've ran Heaven on max settings for an hour + a benchmark at the end without issue. Other games like War Thunder seem fine. I've only ever had the one error message and that was a DirectX "GetDeviceRemovedReason" with the usual DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG.

Temps are fine, also tried a high % fan speed on both cards to be certain it isn't heat related. Cards have been reseated, PCI-E extensions reseated, fresh install of the drivers with a driver cleaner. As mentioned I've removed any overclocks including CPU. Fresh install/download of BF4 as the previous was a move of original game files from 9 months or so ago off my NAS + download of updates to save time.

Might swap the cards around today but its going to be a headache as the PCI-E x1 extension cable might not make it over the Classy in the second slot and to the sound card.

That's the error I get when I overclock the graphics cards a bit too much.

 

[Speed]

Did you try disabling origin in game, and also repair install? If you have any expansions, worth checking install on them too.

I've disabled Origin ingame but as I did a complete fresh download and install of the game there wasn't much point in a repair install.

That's the error I get when I overclock the graphics cards a bit too much.

Indeed, its looking very much like a memory overclock issue. Downclocking the GPU didn't do anything, but I've just played over an hour with the memory and GPU clocked down as low as far as it will let me and it was stable. Next time I play I'll just downclock the memory and with any luck its that. Will just be a question of working out what memory clock will be stable if that is the issue.

 

[setter]

Tbh, I just tend to run stock speed on the gpu's, plenty at my res and keeps things a bit cooler, well if you can class 80c as cool that is.

 

[Speed]

lol!

Yeah these are factory overclocks, so I assumed they'd be stable. Unless of course the drivers have tried to force the non-classy card to run at classy speeds. For stability sake I would have thought it would pick the lowest overclock and match the other card to it.

 

[setter]

Sli theese days runs cards individually, one of mine does 1124, other does 1097. Both are 3005 on memory. I run the faster one in the primary slot. Both factory oc'd. When clocking for benchmarks I run linked with a compromise oc of +80/300. Individually they do the following.

80/500
100/300

You can unlink them in afterburner etc and set separate clocks, but I've never tried it tbh.

 

[Speed]

Ah I see, didn't know that. Guess I'll have to have a mess around when I next play.