Interestingly I've finally come across my first case of either burn in or image retention. I noticed on greyish screens like say a Steam chat window I could see that parts of the right side of my screen looked a slightly different grey. So I got up the Eizo monitor test patterns and noticed that on blue it was slightly "dirty" in places on the bottom right quadrant of the screen. Now interestingly that's part of the screen I don't use as much(if I've only got one window open I usually have it on the left side due to the empty part of my desk being on the left side allowing paper documents/food or whatever else), and I could see some vague outlines of specific text on it that looked like it's come from some kind of document or email(the location of it wouldn't be any game UI or anything, nor do I recognise it as one). Consequently I'm actually thinking it might have been stubborn image retention because you generally don't get burn in that looks like specific text unless it was part of a UI, even subtitle burn in tends to just show up as a blurry rectangle box around where subtitles are usually placed. I figure I might have accidentally left a white background document up recently that's caused it. It's entirely possible as I noticed Windows has been bugging out with it's screensaver, sometimes it doesn't pop up after 5mins of inactivity like it should till I restart my PC.
Either way I ran the long panel cleaner from the settings and that's cleaned it up quite a lot. You can still see some very faint "dirtyness" on the blue test image if you look close but it's not too obvious anymore. We'll see if that either goes away more over time, or alternatively gets worse i guess.
Either way I ran the long panel cleaner from the settings and that's cleaned it up quite a lot. You can still see some very faint "dirtyness" on the blue test image if you look close but it's not too obvious anymore. We'll see if that either goes away more over time, or alternatively gets worse i guess.
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