machala # This could be, but it is hard to tell. And it is easy to test a new monitor or use a different laptop with your monitor. And a lot of people at this forum had less eye strain when switching the monitor, including some switching to older models or some using new TN-Panels.
But there was also one guy who is using a external GPU box(forgot the name) so he can use any laptop with an old Nvidia GPU. They still sell this thing, it is meant for super powerful GPUs, but you can just insert an super old PCI express card and therfore use your laptop with your favorite external desktop GPU. Not sure it works with desktop PCs though. He was quit happy and said after a few months that his eyes returned to normal that way.
I tested my phone and my TV yesterday. Even my TV is brighter than my monitor. My eyes are watering because of the overly red monitor but not on the brighter more saturated TV. My phone is OLED and is set to "vivid" colors and neutral white. It is a perfect device, always automatically right brightness, best thing i ever bought. Colors are vivid, saturated but they all look perfectly natural, perhaps a bit oversaturated, but nice to look at. No problems when i turn up brightness to max, no eye twitching. If i put my phone on my desk, saturation looks like my monitor at 100% saturation, but colors are not jumping into my eye.
After that i tried on my phone:
- more reddish whitepoint -> Eyecramping and watering after 1 minute use.
- Blueish whitepoint -> nausea
- neutral whitepoint -> perfect device
So i tried switching my hue lamps
- warmwhite -> eyes feeling uncomfortable
- neutral white -> too bright
- neutral white + 80% brightness -> totally comfortable
Then the TV. which has the following settings:cold, neutral, warm1, warm2, warm3
- cold -> nausea
- neutral -> too bright
- warm1 -> perfect brightness but white looks a bit greyish/dirty, but eyes are not reacting
- warm2 -> eye cramping
This is new. My eyes never reacted that way to warm color temperature. My old TN-Panel had a slight warm touch. I was even using the Eizo ev2495 at 5000K for at least 100 hours(it is now at 200 hours usage according to its settings menu). White is my problem, it needs to look a certain way, otherwise my brain thinks i got food poisoning or my eye is dirty or sth.
I dont think my eyes are the cause, i think the BenQ panel is the cause . It is too much light in the colors, too vivid or just too much contrast. My OLED phone is vivid and can go brighter than my monitor and i have 0 problems with it, and it has super high contrast, so i am a bit clueless.
And yes it might not be the panel, but the Intel mainboard or the GPU, but my new monitor will arrive today. My docking station for steam deck/laptop arrived yesterday, so can now test any of my devices with any monitor and switch fast. I will try some combinations and share. But this BenQ became unusable for me, and this is like after hundreds of hours of usage.