not that I know of but you can quickly enable and disable HDR by pressing win+alt+b
World first QD-OLED monitor from Dell and Samsung (34 inch Ultrawide 175hz)
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not that I know of but you can quickly enable and disable HDR by pressing win+alt+b
You can use autoactions to automatically enable/disable HDR for games:
https://github.com/Codectory/AutoActions
https://github.com/Codectory/AutoActions
Perfect will definitely give it a go.
I've just used the creator setting, oddly it will load up and will work but when you go to the osd menu the creator setting is grayed out but shows as being used on the top osd bar.
If you change to another setting you can't select it again unless I exit the hdr game, change back to creator and load the game back up.
Is this normal?
Turn HDR off in Windows. The mode cannot be changed if you are in HDR mode as HDR spec is taking control of that as well as brightness. You should not be using HDR mode when not viewing HDR content or playing a game in HDR though anyway.
Left my PC on overnight but turned the monitor off, when I came back to it today and turned the monitor back on it did a two of three weird flickering green lines for a bit in different places. Stopped after I turned it off and on again so assume it may have been some weird displayport handshake glitch or something, but has got me worried now. Monitor seemed good till that. 
Doesn't always seem to happen as I've turned the monitor back on after the pc has been idle/monitor off for quite a bit before and this is the first I've seen of it. Have swapped the cable either way just in case. It'll be a shame if I have to get a replacement though as it seemed fine otherwise.
Doesn't always seem to happen as I've turned the monitor back on after the pc has been idle/monitor off for quite a bit before and this is the first I've seen of it. Have swapped the cable either way just in case. It'll be a shame if I have to get a replacement though as it seemed fine otherwise.Is your Windows set to put the monitor to sleep after x amount time? I've had an issue on my previous monitor where the monitor even though I manually turn it off on the button, won't properly wake up or weird out when tapping the keyboard r moving the mouse to wake the display up (my PC also stays on overnight but is never set to auto sleep, just sometimes the display was set to sleep after 30 mins idle).
Turning the feature in Windows off to never put the monitor to sleep fixed that. The same thing happens on the QD-OLED so it's a Windows bug when combined with certain GFX cards and drivers by the looks of it where sometimes the display won't wake when the OS puts it to sleep, or will do funky stuff when waking up.
Ever since I have just used a black screen screen saver instead so the panel itself isn't actively "on" since it's OLED, and then manually turn the monitor off as and when needed.
Turning the feature in Windows off to never put the monitor to sleep fixed that. The same thing happens on the QD-OLED so it's a Windows bug when combined with certain GFX cards and drivers by the looks of it where sometimes the display won't wake when the OS puts it to sleep, or will do funky stuff when waking up.
Ever since I have just used a black screen screen saver instead so the panel itself isn't actively "on" since it's OLED, and then manually turn the monitor off as and when needed.
First delay was to April 22nd, then the second delay was May 6th, so it is due to be delivered based on the first delay email I received.
I don't have it set to sleep the monitor no, I've always just turned my monitor off when I leave it. I do have a black screensaver set up as well though.
You're not wrong that displayport is a mess with turning on/waking up though. I have a 48CX hooked up via a long HDMI cable as well, and I've had to just leave the TV switched off in the Nvidia drivers when I'm not using it because otherwise if I try and turn a displayport monitor on while the PC is on with the hdmi tv switched off it just won't wake up at all. Usually have to power cycle the entire pc to finally get it to switch the monitor on. Weirdly if the TV is switched on first and then the displayport monitor is switched on then it's generally fine. Has been an issue ever since I got the TV.
Over all I hate how finicky displayport is.
Yep many of these niggles with sleepwake seem to be because of displayport being just as you say, finicky. At least with Nvidia cards in my experience. On the whole it's 99% of the time just fine, but that 1% of the time it does stick in memory.
I look forward to the next gen stuff being all USB-C for everything one day soon.
I look forward to the next gen stuff being all USB-C for everything one day soon.
One other odd thing I have noticed when my pc has been on but I'm turning on my monitor after it's been off a while is that it'll turn onto a mostly grey screen with a black box in the top left corner for a bit. Sorts itself out after a while but just very weird behaviour. Especially considering I can see the mouse cursor over it. Makes me think it's an application that's doing it but I haven't really installed anything new besides the alienware light application and driver for the monitor. Could be related to the previous issue really too considering the lines didn't appear till after leaving that screen, not sure.
Anyone else have the fan randomly spinning up frequently? Also no idea how people are saying they dont notice how bad the fonts are on this screen, because they are absolutely shocking in both Windows and MacOS. Really really bad. Even bad at the "scanning for input" screen before an OS is even loaded.
The fans will spool up and down yeah, mentioned a few times.
This will sort out the text: https://github.com/bp2008/BetterClearTypeTuner
Set to RGB, then the contrast value to 2200. Restart and no longer have any text rendering issues as it's now 90%+ no longer noticeable even up close.
The OSD font/text rendering is never that great on any monitor anyway. It's like lack of font smoothing on BIOS screens etc, just very basic text rendering.
This will sort out the text: https://github.com/bp2008/BetterClearTypeTuner
Set to RGB, then the contrast value to 2200. Restart and no longer have any text rendering issues as it's now 90%+ no longer noticeable even up close.
The OSD font/text rendering is never that great on any monitor anyway. It's like lack of font smoothing on BIOS screens etc, just very basic text rendering.
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I don't think I'm even going to open mine, this would irritate me too much (as well as the pixel refresh box popping up in the middle of a game). I think I'll just hang on for the Asus 42in OLED that's coming later this year (bit of luck), see what that's like.
In the meantime have picked up an LG 38GN950-B for £600 fairly local.
I'm still putting up with it tbh. The pros far outweigh the cons really and the fan noise I can largely ignore I guess. The past week I've been going 20 hours at a stretch before a pixel refresh, essentially WFH and editing shoots means I tend to forget about the 4 hr intervals and just wait until the prompt comes up at the 20th hour. Running a few greyscale and colour patches on the whole screen to check for retention/uniformity and happy to report no such problems, perfectly uniform and retention-free.