AOC CU34G2XP/BK - 34 VA CURVED here is official specs for this monitor: https://aoc.com/uk/gaming/products/monitors/cu34g2xp-bk/specification i bought this ultrawide monitor few days ago and tbh it destroyed me much more than anything before. biggest problem with my eyes i have when i move my head and perspective even few centimeters and it have different image and it kills my eyes so much. sometimes i have feeling like im looking at shining crystal or something like reflective stripes, weird feeling ironically i had no problems with this screen when i was looking from huge angle like 70 degrees at screen and screen was illuminated regurarly not when i look from center and in center its darker at edges its brighter and when i move i feel huge eye pain like someone is cutting my eyes with saw i saw article which tells a little bit about problem i have so i probably think its gamma shift problem? https://www.arzopa.com/blogs/guide/what-is-va-glow-gamma-shift-and-black-crush question is, is it fixable or should i return it because no matter what i will no fix it and its not fixable? here is video i took with this panel with camera from phone: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RKDGGC31iHyFMFCdsLofzbZCGWnwNErR/view?usp=sharing you can download for better quality because player shows only 360p as you can see at the end camera shows vertical black stripes, does it mean its flickering? i was using there 100% brightness at monitor so its weird and also when i move camera closer to screen it have something like black ring and when i move camera on screen this ring also moves. maybe thats what kills my eyes? let me know and tell everything because i need so much help to understand this panel, thanks any idea how to fix it? or maybe i have astigmatism that i dont know about? but last time when i was at optometric they said i have 0.5 and 0.5 is not necessary to wear glasses and a lot people have. i also have miopia -3 at both eyes no idea what to do guys i need your knowledge so much

> @"technicalitch"#p42196 im looking at shining crystal Bad pixel inversion / A-FRC. Perhabs become more visible at curved screens Better option - to try monitors with moneyback

> @"simplex"#p42197 Better option - to try monitors with moneyback what do you mean? what is that

another thing i noticed is that monitor when i move cursor it turns from white to yellow and all other white things on black turns into yellow on this test especially: https://www.testufo.com/color-ghosting

> @"technicalitch"#p42196 question is, is it fixable or should i return it because no matter what i will no fix it and its not fixable? doesn't seem fixable at all, definitely return it

@"DisplaysShouldNotBeTVs"#p42202 i like your nick haha. today i feel when looking at this screen like someone put laser wave into my eye, sick as hell

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

AOC CU34G2XP/BK (34 VA CURVED) huge eyepain

technicalitch

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

DisplaysShouldNotBeTVs

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)

simplex

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

technicalitch

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

technicalitch

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

technicalitch

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

simplex

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

technicalitch

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

technicalitch

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

technicalitch

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

technicalitch

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

simplex

technicalitch i set contrast on monitor

Check this, how brightness/contrast work

https://habr.com/ru/articles/469247/

technicalitch

https://www.reddit.com/r/ultrawidemasterrace/comments/kexhzk/messed_up_eye_vision_because_of_curved_ultrawide/

in this thread dude have same problem like me, after looking at ultrawide curved va when i looked to normal flat monitor i also saw normal monitor like round shape xD

technicalitch

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

technicalitch

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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