World first QD-OLED monitor from Dell and Samsung (34 inch Ultrawide 175hz)

I've got a couple annoying issues with my alienware.

The 1st issue is that about 30% of the time when I turn on HDR in windows the screen will just go completely black and then the monitor will turn off after a while. Using the shortcut keys to go back to SDR doesn't make the image return, the only solution is to restart the PC.
This doesn't happen at all on my LG C9 TV when I enable HDR, only happens on the alienware.

Does anyone else have this?

Secondly, I've only had the monitor for 6 and a half weeks and the 1500 hour panel refresh message just came on. The problem is I haven't even had the monitor for 1500 hours, even if I used it 24 hours a day it would take 8 and a half weeks to get to 1500 hours so what happened?
I use the monitor on average 8 hours a day, so the panel refresh should take 6 months to appear, this means the time counter is seriously broken. I think I'll just manually run the refresh once every 6 months instead?
 
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Things change I've changed said:
Still to be confirmed it seems,

"We believe the removal of the G-sync module will also negate the need for active cooling fans that were featured in the existing model, but this remains to be confirmed"

Fingers crossed it won't have one.
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Some version of these panels may not have fans. For example it looks like the Samsung version doesn't have a fan for cooling, but the Samsung panel has a lower refresh rate and lower brightness so make of that as you will
 
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mrk said:
No profile, the colour profiles screen in Windows (both user and global areas) are empty.

Creator mode, SRGB, 2.4 gamma = Perfectly accurate for 99% of uses. I use mine t edit my photography mostly
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Just an FYI for people - do not copy other peoples gamma setting unless you are also using their brightness. This monitor's gamma curve changes with brightness - so a gamma of 2.4 looks very different depending on what your brightness setting is on

I have my brightness on 25 and find gamma 2.4 looks ways too dark, 2.2 looks good for me. Gamma 2.4 appears to require a brightness setting of 50 or higher to look goood.
 
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enigma27 said:
Finally got my monitor delivered yesterday and wow what a pleasure OLED is.

Did some tweaking last night and have settled on the following

  • HDR1000
  • Brightness 75
  • Contrast 100
  • Standard colour profile
  • SDR slider in windows at 30
I don't hear any fan noise at all, and my Pc is nowhere near me so would be apparent if it was loud. The colours on this thing are just beautiful and everything is so sharp. played MW2 at the weekend on my old monitor and then finished it off on the OLED and it was like a different game.

Not sure why MrK thinks you shouldn't use HDR in windows. I have it turned on all the time on both this and previous HDR Monitors (last one was a Neo G9) and it looks great to me.
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It's too bright in windows imo plus if you have any static pixels then those will be more likely to burn in over time, this monitor doesn't have a pixel dimming safety feature
 
LambChop said:
Really struggling here would love some help with my AW3423DW. So essentially ive only tried two games at the moment. 1st one is diablo immortal. So on my previous Dell 34UW, I wouldnt have black bars at the side, it would be full screen. On this new monitor I have the bars and I cant get rid of them. 2. Cyberpunk 2077's settings show hdr, but there's no hdr selection for me to enable
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Ahh that's interesting, I came from 16:9 to the Aw34 but I can confirm that diablo immortal plays in 16:9 on my aw34 as well, it has black bars on the sides
 
Samsung to start making 27 inch QD-OLED panels, first customer will be Apple (so these are likely 27 inch 4k 60hz panels)

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Samsung is Considering 27-inch QD-OLED Display Production, to Supply Apple

It appears that the competition is heating up, well, at least when it comes to who is going to be first to launch a 27-inch OLED-type panel, as Samsung is now considering doing its own 27-inch OLED-type panels, following rumours about LG considering its own 27-inch OLED-type panels. The details...
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mrk said:
Hmm looks like the F version is just as accurate for colours as the non F, seems Dell's factory sRGB calibration is getting tighter each revision now, from reddit:

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All but that one red tone below deltaE of 1, that is superb.



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Can someone who has used the Windows HDR Calibration tool test something please? In Display Settings check with HDR enabled, what Windows says the peak brightness is? The AW is supposed to have a max peak of 1060 nits, but Windows shows 2700 nits.

I reran the calibration tool again for HDR and paid attention to the numbers on the slider which showed 2700just like before. 2700 is the value at which I can see the gal square is perfectly 1:1 to what it should be.

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So what's going on here I wonder, is there actually 2070 nits? Otherwise why would the slider in both instances during the calibration tool match the goal square at 2070?
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Weird, my AW34 usually comes up with just over 1000 nits in that menu and tends to clip around 1000 in the calibration app.

But am I surprised? Not at all, HDR is so freakin broken in Windows its not funny.

I'm don't think the monitor is 2000 nits or Alienware would have said so, its more likely a Windows problem.
And why is Windows saying your monitor is gsync ultimate when it's not? another bug
 
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Nexus18 said:
So seems if you want the best HDR experience, gsync ultimate module is quite important?
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As soon as I watched the video I realised it's a nothing burger.

It's true out of the box the monitor doesn't do tone mapping and will just clip HDR highlights when the content is created for higher than 1000nits peak. But there is a software tone map option in the menu that for some reason is not enabled by default.

And if that isn't good enough, Windows has an HDR calibration app now which in 5 minutes fixes the issue and not just this issue; the Gsync monitor doesn't have some normal HDR settings available like color settings but again, doesn't matter cause the windows HDR calibration app lets you not just tone map but change colors and saturation as you wish
 
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Noxia said:
Has anyone played Warhammer darktide? In the brightness setting it says to adjust until the left image disappears but if I set it to zero brightness, the left and right image disappears. So I cannot see a way how you keep the right one visible but make the left not visible.

Edit. Found it, have to set to -0.96
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A lot of games brightness settings are broken on OLEDs. I have encountered tons of games where if I make the logo disappear it makes the game super super dark and impossible to see

Basically ignore what the game says and just set the brightness you prefer

This issue is because the game developers are not creating the games on OLED monitors, they are working on gaming PCs connected to edge lit LCDs and stuff and so they configure the brightness and gamma scales for what looks good on an edge lit LCD, not OLED
 
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