Clokwork
My symptoms are very new to me, last christmas i could do everything, watch TV, play PC Games. Now my eyes dry out superfast, White looks often too sharp, and the screen looks "busy". I think that is dithering and i cant see it on my TV or my phone. Sometimes i get nausea, my BenQ VA Panel is to high contrast, even on lowest setting, killing my eyes fast. IPS and TN Panels are ok.
I just bought a new gaming PC in June, build it my self and now i have all these symptoms, so i naturally think it is the new PC. Tested an Nvidia, had bad symptoms(only in the eyes), colors were super strange, then send it back, bought the 6600xt. Tested 10+ Monitors. It is super strange. Sometimes everything was ok, then all went to hell again. Now i will try to not use my home PC and test Steam Deck as an Home PC, just to be sure it isnt something related to the 6600xt. The screen still looks busy, but i dont have a better device now and my eyes didnt twitch and i didnt get nausea(until now).
I will try to do everything with low brightness on my monitor. When my symptoms are gone somehow, i know it might just be my new PC, not any monitor.
I actually tested sth, that noone should test, because (i think) you can actually damage your monitor with this. In custom resolution you can change the timing of your GPU/Monitor. It was set to CVT-RB. I tried it without RB and somehow i nearly vomitted from looking at the screen. Not sure why. Perhaps there is sth with my brain, but i prefer testing Steam deck before going to the doctor, because they just know what i tell them.
Additionaly when i dont use the PC for a few weeks, which happened just because i was on holiday, everything was fine. Every screen was fine. No eye pain, no eye drops, watching TV with my son was ok. After that massive eye pain on EVERY screen, but it was my eyes overreacting.
If you are at peace with you current GPU, then dont upgrade or at least keep every old GPU/mainboard/monitor, so you can downgrade again.
What does you help when your symptoms act up? Or is it like always there?