Eyestrain solved after 6 years and multiple panels - LG 32gk850g

Big thanks to f3likx

I ended up trying a couple of LG VA monitors. Both have been a major improvement. Not perfect eye fatigue relief for me, but much much better. I am thinking about trying out a Samung VA QLED just to see if there is any major difference to what LG offers. The two I have tried from LG are the 32UD60-B (4K) and the 32GK650F (1440). The panel quality is worse on the 4K, but I still prefer it for it's higher PPI for text sharpness. I am running it at 180% scaling and at a viewing distance of about 3 feet, which makes most everything of a very comfortable size.

Also what I have tried along the way is switching back to my IPS monitor, which ends up giving me eye fatigue sooner or later. And I tried out a newer gaming TN monitor, the Dell S2716DGR. It also gave me eye fatigue. To really find out if the IPS and TN were more fatiguing than VA, after eye fatigue began to really set in, I swapped in the VA, and the relief began right away, and within around an hour or so my eyes were back to feeling much better. And it is even better if I use the VA without having first used the IPS or TN monitors. I would say that the overall improvement is major, where instead of getting painful eye fatigue, my eyes eventually reach a tired level and stay there. It feels different than fatigue, where my eyes ache and my focus begins getting blurry. And the general look and feel on the eyes of VA is warm and soft. If I had to put a number on it, I guess I would say that using a VA is a 75% improvement, enough that I can get on with using a computer for text work and everything else without worrying about getting eye ache.

Any way, VA is definitely worth a shot.

deepflame Will get a Dell 2407wfp on Monday. This is CCFL backlit. Will update on how it goes.

Good luck - I have two of them and with a "good" video card I find them great to use on a daily basis.

Please see this:

Do you find it difficult or easy to focus on text on VA panels? Did you just get used to it? Did you get headaches and did they eventually pass?

On the TN panel (BenQ XL2720Z) I find text is easy to read. It's crisp. It's perfect. I can focus on it without issue. I don't even notice it because it's just easy. The background colour is flat.

On the VA panel (LG 32GK850G-B) it's just... not. It's like the edges of the letters are soft. I understand that the pixel structure is different but it's so difficult to put my finger on it. I honestly feel like my eyes strain more to read, and after a few months I'm feeling like my eyes are worse in general. Which has got to be bollocks.

It could just be because things are slightly differently sized, but then I increase the text size and there's still this thing that's hard to quantify. Like it's just slightly out of focus. And anything a few inches from what you're directly in front of, the background color seems to shift. It's a shimmer like on those old kids toy pictures that would look like one thing and then another if you changed your viewing angle.

I know TN panels are supposed to shift a lot but when you're sitting in front of them, they don't – at least not in the same way. Maybe it's the screen coating?

When gaming, it doesn't really matter; there's not a lot of text to be looked at. But when working on notepad, especially on a dark background... it's.... really distracting.

Has anyone else experienced this? Do you just get used to it in the end? Are there any solutions? I've tried using Windows upscaling for text but it blurs things something awful.

Edit: It could just be the anti-glare coating. I don't know. The BenQ doesn't have it.

Examples of what I'm referring to:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/Monitors/comments/8xzj0x/bought_a_samsung_cfg70_but_texts_are_fuzzy_as_heck/

Link to the thread: https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2766887

anyone Unfortunately I can't tell you that. However one of the the nice things about VA is being able to use a dark or black theme, which VA does very well, and another thing is that VA has good contrast even when you take the contrast control down after taking down the brightness.

Also, I've read good things about this TN unit: https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-24MK400H-B-led-monitor

I was going to get one to see how it is because it's a cheap unit with excellent reviews and no one complaining about any eye strain. However, my Amazon site sold out of them after stocking them at a very attractive price level.

I believe the VA249 may be a bit better, but since I didn't get the LG to test, I don't really know. LG says the viewing angles are only

Viewing Angle 90º (R/L), 65º (U/D)

And the Asus is supposed to have 178º viewing angles, but I haven't read anyone complaining about the LG's viewing angles. Maybe that could be because people are easily pleased when they don't pay much? I don't know. TN used to have bad viewing angles, but people don't seem to complain about the current generation units.

In general, I recommend buying from a place like Amazon where you can try out the unit for 30 days before returning it if need be for a full refund. There's no substitute for using the monitor in your own home environment.

anyone I found this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Monitors/comments/b9aulq/the_list_of_monitors_sorted_by_minimum_possible/

It shows: Minimum brightness: 64.97 cd/m² LG 32GK850G-B 2017-12-14

That's for the model featured in this thread.

anyone Have you considered trying the blue light settings in an Asus Eye Care VA like the VA249 or else using a "night light" tool in your OS to make the screen warmer? This may allow you to use a brighter screen, particularly if you have a nearby incadescent lamp to provide some room lighting. When I turn on my "Night Light" in Ubuntu, it takes the sharpness out of the display even though my brightness and contrast levels are at daytime levels, and I am sitting in a dark room without any ambient lighting. This tool allows me to make the screen less warm or more warm depending on where I put the slider.