@JTL Can you explain those tests and what the results mean? Did they correlate in any obvious way with strain vs no strain and tell you anyything?
@Soreeyes agreed locking the thread is a bit shit. No reason they couldn't leave it open for people to continue working on. The fact TUV found no measurable difference for some of the common possible causes for strain with the same machine on drivers people claim were better vs those they claim were worse does give us info though. Negative results are still results. TUV takes things seriously and I believe they did their best to check things so that leads me to believe it either IS pscyhogenic, an eye health issue, or we need to consider an entirely new technical path since PWM/Bluelight/dithering yadda yadda never yeilds any consistent results.
About AMD...I have tried a few Ryzen laptops and had terrible strain immediately with them...worse than my normal annoying Intel integrated stuff. For me at least that means if it's NOT all in my head, then its either not a gpu issue, or Ryzen is doing the same "bad" thing intel is if anything at all. I have seen one person claim and older Lenovo AMD only laptop was their only strain free one but haven't seen reports of Ryzen curing anyone.
I have also not seen ANY consistency with any positive reports...some people say Nvidia whatever works...some not...some say ATI is comfortable...some not. It's easy to say "everyone's case is different" but at the same time....since we all have very similar symptom sets it seems there would at least be some statistical grouping of bad/good hardware/software and I have not seen that. We need reproducable, measurable data that correlates with strain.