finding sweetspot at monitor helped a little bit but its like 35% but for me its success because i know where i should go (you need to find your own path what makes you feeling weird and need analyse symptoms and facts a little bit even if its very painful like its for me). i lowered contrast a little bit and brightness with f.lux (because no pwm dimming here thats why i always use flux to lower brigthness by pressing alt + page down and i kill in flux a little bit of blue light, now 4450k setting) and a little bit its better. you need to understand contrast and saturation on these monitors, i mean your brain. because these new ips and va monitors have so big contrast and saturated colors THAT IS SOMETIMES SHINING TO MY EYE but also have IPS glow that makes your brain sick because you focus your eyes on black and suddenly you have this ips glow that dont help to understand your eye and brain whats going on. dont know how to desribe this. va is worse than ips for me because angle of looking is changing gamma and contrast so much. on left side of screen black is "shining" its very hard to find sweet spot and much harder than ips imho. its very weird i hope someone will understand and it will help him a little bit. maybe in past when you looked and super amoled screens from samsung your eye is adapted to something different and ips like fake amoled and your brain and eye cant adapt.

maybe im wrong now maybe not, just telling because it can be hint in your long path to discover what cause for you eyepain.

+ im drunk now and maybe it relax my eye a little bit (im saying that because i saw some people were telling that relaxation of eye helped them)

cheers but ips > va

    but for ultrawide va your eye can be shocked like mine. on left side black is shining, on center not, on another side its more different than on left. fck va, ips is much better but still killing eye with these new ksf phosfors etc

    but ips/va glow is bigger enemy than i was thinking

    and another fact why i buy ultrawide if my pupil cant get visualisation of all screen without eyestrain? dont know how to describe it english but sometimes you have this visual effect of ultrawide and your pupils set another position and it makes you pain

    technicalitch cheers but ips > va

    i agree that this specific supplier/manufacturer of the VA panel in the monitor you tried really sucks. sounds like a terrible experience.

    but, technically not all VA is the same. i have a really old VA TV from 2004 (Sharp LC-G5C26U) that i actually prefer to all IPS screens that i've ever tried. it's one of my main screens i use today because of how comfortable it is.

    so i don't necessarily think the concept of VA itself is the source of the problem here, but rather a lot of other things wrong with this monitor, or something wrong with the panel's specific implementation of VA because it sounds VERY different compared to how the VA panel in my old Sharp TV feels.

    (but yeah there's definitely many differences between a 2004 VA TV and a new VA monitor lol)

      Yep, it depend on current panel: *VA could be good as IPS and as TN-film. Engeneer factor

      sorry for my chaotic posts but im really pissed off. its 5th monitor and its only worse and i get drunk yesterday 😃 i back to Monitor AOC Q24G2A/BK and i have less symptoms (maybe because of high ppi?, maybe because of IPS? idk) but they are still here. no matter how i look at this ultrawide it always gives me pain. yesterday i took friend to my house for few hours and said him to play games on ultrawide monitor and he didnt had any problems xD no comment

      the worst on this va panel is that black and colors is different from angle you look, you move head contrast of black moves. the one thing that really helped me was lowering contrast in software because this brightness and contrast at built in monitor menus are weird. contrast is like brigthness and brightness like contrast. when i lowered down illuminance of panel it helped me but still it was weird and extremley painful. va is not for me i prefer this ips, on ips i also have eyestrain but not hardcore like on this curved ultrawide va

      btw which monitors have no pixel inversion problems? maybe its my problem

      For my opinion, 60hz panels, with big pixel PPI, with slow pixels (20..30ms), with good coating (half matte), is always nice

      checked once again this ultrawide VA panel and i was seeing this wallpaper on my desktop as 3D man xD especially the red parts it was shining in my eyes so much and it was more like 3D vision not flat object

      on IPS i look at same wallpaper and no have 3d effect when i look at it wtf

      thats crazy but i still have no idea what causes this

      now on AOC Q24G2A/BK i see this 3d effect. isnt it panel backlight make this effect to me? whats wrong with these new monitors i cant understand wtf is happening. never had problems like this before

      idk if that ips glow effect is causing this or what, need to study this more

      and another thing why when i set contrast on monitor it also changes brightness? sometimes people use contrast menu at monitor to reduce brightness. its weird

        i messaged aoc support about my problem can you believe told me im first person that report eyestrain problems? lol

        1st message was lower contrast and brightness and go to doctor. it doesnt help

        today i tried to manage my eyes and brain to have no problem looking at this va panel and guess what?
        my right pupil is bigger and left smaller and IN THIS WEIRD CONDITION i can stand this screen for some short amount of time, isnt that sick? and why its like that? weird so much

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