coming to the conclusion that the monitor I use might be really bad for gaming
@zero really though it's a low end IPS panel and if the game gets even slightly dark I can't see shit anymore. Trying to up the brightness just makes the entire scene washed out
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@RustyCrab @zero ips LCD panels are not that good for competitive type gaming. Amazing color and viewing angles, and usually better contrast too in my experience. Just bad latency. You notice it less if it is high refresh rate. TN is superior latency, VA is a good mix of both. IPS panels are about to get a lot better because of Nvidia's upcoming Pulsar tech.

OLED is superior in pretty much every way to all of these except for the VRR flickering. Burn in is a non issue now really.

You've probably done this already but make sure your monitor is set to use full dynamic range (0-255) instead of limited (16-235). Might help with your black levels there. Also, disable hdr in games because there is a pretty high likelihood your monitor doesn't have great hdr support and it'll just leave the image looking super washed out.

@beardalaxy @zero OLED burn in is still very much an issue if you use the monitor for work.

I actually didn't know about the limited color range thing I'll check into that
@beardalaxy @zero wow you're right my color range WAS being limited in my nvidia settings wtf

@RustyCrab @zero that's the default setting for some reason lmao it's always one of the first things I go in and change, a lot of people miss it.

@zero @beardalaxy I went to microcenter to shop for an OLED and every single model had visible burn in. The ones running demos had extremely visible permanent logos hard baked into every corner. Absolute parody of a technology

@RustyCrab @zero oh, maybe it could be an issue with hdr being too bright for them, so that leads to burn in. I don't think the switch oled has hdr support at all so that would make sense.

@zero @RustyCrab I guess if people are making shitty oled screens but like, a YouTuber did a test where he left breath of the wild on a switch oled and it took thousands of hours before it became an issue: youtu.be/Po8jAQjvd88

If you use some sort of screen saver, hide your taskbar (or even use a transparent one with an animated wallpaper or something), you'll probably be fine for a while. Burn in WILL happen but like, not in a very meaningful way and not awfully quickly. I don't think it is necessarily something you need to worry too much about.

@beardalaxy @RustyCrab it's a problem with the tech, not the fault of "shitty oled screens"
@RustyCrab @beardalaxy @zero I'm going to make an OLED monitor that actually has 60 individual screens and each frame a new one flips into place so the rest can take a break. don't forget to enable f-sync
@deprecated_ii @RustyCrab @beardalaxy @zero > oled monitor that actually has 60 individual screens
inst this microled kiiiiiiinda?
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