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Dirge wrote:Spyder do you have issues with your eyes you were hoping to fix? Hopefully you will find some time for some casual gaming.
Spyder22446688 wrote:That's interesting. I am among the category of folks who describe the move as like a religious experience (mostly for gaming than for desktop use, though the difference is noticeable.) I suspect you'd tell the difference using a 144Hz and a 60Hz monitor side-by-side, or going back to a 60Hz primary display. Unless... not to be insulting, just to be sure—you have set your monitor to 144Hz, right? I have found that it's important to check because sometimes Windows doesn't properly default to the highest refresh rate.Honestly, I noticed zero difference and was pretty disappointed. From what I had read, the jump from 60 to 144 was supposed to be dramatic, like a religious experience, even for non-gaming stuff. Nuts, nope.
JustAnEngineer wrote:I'm thinking of bundling this with Vega. Tell me that it will be an upgrade from my 10 year-old UltraSharp 3007WFP + 15 year-old 2001FP.
bfg-9000 wrote:No, because unlike a CRT the image on a LCD doesn't start to fade between refreshes.
RAGEPRO wrote:Unless... not to be insulting, just to be sure—you have set your monitor to 144Hz, right? I have found that it's important to check because sometimes Windows doesn't properly default to the highest refresh rate.
curtisb wrote:Are you sure it's the LCD causing the eyestrain and not the lighting? It could also be the reduced brightness on your monitor. Having it at 30% could be causing your eyes to strain harder to see the screen. Maybe try bumping that up just a little.
Dirge wrote:If brightness is causing you issues, be careful with gaming displays, especially any G-Sync monitor, or ones that have strobing features. Those tend to have ultra-bright backlights to inflate contrast specs, and to help with the dimming that strobing causes.I found turning the brightness down to 30% has helped lessen the problem. but I still find white backgrounds just too much to look at.
tanker27 wrote:And absolutely no overhead lighting. I use a free standing lamp with a 40w incandescent bulb about 6 feet away at a 45 degree angle to the monitor.
just brew it! wrote:As far as glasses go, I have a pair with a prescription that is optimized for computer use; but then I don't really have a choice since my vision is so terrible. To get some idea of how bad my vision is without corrective lenses, imagine a camera with a very narrow depth of field, and a fixed focus of about 9 inches. Yes, it really is as bad as that sounds.
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