Citrix causing eye strain on screen that otherwise does not?

ensete

So glad I rediscovered this community. Matters so much that I am not alone

So here's my latest odyssey:
- I have 2 Dell 21 inch widescreen monitors. One hooked up to a desktop, one hooked up to a laptop for work

For the past several months, the monitor on my desktop hasn't caused me any issues. The one on the laptop has. I clearly suffer from video driver induced eye strain, Several times I have been put in pain from the same screen displaying a new video source.

So I switched to a Citrix login on the computer and screen that doesn't cause me issues, but now THAT is cause me eye stain. I can't wrap my head around that. I turned off font smoothing in the Citrix client, and no help.

I have an eye exam scheduled shortly to see if my prescription changed on me, but if thats not the case, any ideas why a Citrix window on a screen that doesn't cause me issue would trigger my eye strain?

KM

ensete Not sure, but I've been noticing for years that certain programs (even in a window) and apps cause eye strain on otherwise usable devices. It's probably some form of flicker. Temporal dithering or a syncing issue. Does the content move? Maybe updates are constantly drawn and not waiting for a full frame buffer. That would create a flicker (a change in contrast) at the frequency of your screen's refresh rate. But probably only for moving content.

Harrison

Hey, More and more I also believe that some monitor syncing process is the root of our eyestrain. Maybe the changed some syncing process in order to save power or get more performance.
However I've no idea how to detect that.