What kinds of display settings should be adjusted to tweak my display?

JohnJSal

JohnJSal

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Hi all! I finally got my new monitor and set it up today (ASUS VP249QGR). It looks great, but perhaps I'm too used to my old monitor because the colors seem a bit bright or over-saturated.

I've browsed the OSD menu and tried a few of the various presets, but the technical details of display settings has never been my strong suit. Can anyone recommend any specific things/setting names I should look for and adjust? Anything that is sort of a standard adjustment most people make out of the box, maybe?

Right now I have it on the "Standard" display with everything pretty much normal, but the Standard option doesn't allow for adjustment of the Saturation setting, so I may need to change it to something else. There are a lot of presets, but they all seem to be for something specific, like photographs, movies, games, etc.

Thanks!

Edit: I'm also a little confused on what I should do in the Nvidia Control Panel as opposed to the built-in OSD settings of the display itself, or the Windows settings. There's just so many different options! For example, the current refresh rate is 60Hz, but I don't see a way to increase it, even though the monitor supports 144Hz. (I'm using a DP cable.)
 
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JohnJSal said:
It looks great, but perhaps I'm too used to my old monitor because the colors seem a bit bright or over-saturated.
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I suspect your old monitor is probably the one that is under saturated and not as accurate as the VP249QGR. IPS panels are usually pretty good colour accuracy wise out of the box, especially from the larger monitor brands.
 
I got my GF a 75hz monitor months ago and couldn't believe the color difference between the 60 and 75. The 75 is a lot brighter and looks a lot better. I'm currently running a 60hz 27" monitor and looking to upgrade to a 31" or larger 144hz monitor. It was damn tempting to switch monitors with her lol. I can't wait to upgrade.
 
Intel_man said:
I suspect your old monitor is probably the one that is under saturated and not as accurate as the VP249QGR. IPS panels are usually pretty good colour accuracy wise out of the box, especially from the larger monitor brands.
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Very true that I hardly made any changes out of the box. I did lower the brightness and contrast a little (they were set to 90 and 80, which seems a little too high!), but otherwise I left everything as is. Still not sure how to increase the refresh rate though.

(Also, I can't help but say that my current background image is a giant purple flower, and the purple color is just gorgeous! I would attach an image, but would that do any good? I would think it would only look as good as the viewer's own monitor settings will allow.)
 
Lowering the brightness seems to have helped quite a bit. Maybe that was the problem.

But can anyone tell me what the contrast setting does? All I can see happening is that the screen seems to brighten and darken as I adjust it, so I'm not sure how it differs from the brightness setting. What exactly is happening when I raise and lower the contrast setting?
 
johnb35 said:
Google is your friend. Hopefully those articles explain it for you, I know I couldn't.

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Ha, thanks! I was just doing some Google searching as well! For now I think I've found a comfortable level, but of course tomorrow when I open my window again, that may change!

At any rate, I can definitely say that the 90 brightness setting was way too high! :)
 
Intel_man said:
I would keep the contrast to the default value. It's not uncommon to see panels being calibrated to the default value provided.
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Thanks, I'll try that. I reset it to 80 but then needed to lower the brightness even further, from 60 to 40. The other setting is "Color Temp," which defaults to Warm. I tend to gravitate toward the more "standard" or "normal" settings, so I switched this to "Normal" (the other option is "Cool"), but Normal seems to dampen the color a bit. Warm actually appears a bit more vibrant, so I'll leave it there for now as well.
 
Yeah, at this point it comes down to personal preference.

Unless of course you have access to a monitor calibration tool which would let you set it up to be as accurate as possible.
 
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