Acer XB241H scanlines at 144hz and up
Posted: 07 Oct 2018, 15:39
Hi all,
New to the forums, and the topic title is pretty much the reason I found these forums in the first place, thanks to some Googling on the matter.
I bought this monitor about a week ago, and pretty much on day 1, I noticed the monitor had some visible 'scanlines', mostly at the bottom left section of the screen, but only at 144hz and up (veeeery minor at 120hz). Extremely visible when overclocked to 180hz (even from far away). Thanks to a lot of peeps on this forum, I realized it's a "panel lottery" thing, and that it's quite common for 24" 144hz monitors to have this issue.
I have a few questions, though. Can something be done about it? Would installing drivers for the monitor have any effect? What about Nvidia drivers? Would it help to change DisplayPort cable (the one I'm using now came with the monitor)? Are there settings in Windows/NVIDIA I can change that might help? How much of a lottery is there? If I exchange the monitor, what are the changes my new one will also have these scanlines? 100%? 50%? 1%?
I'm very much doubting whether I should RMA the monitor because of this, and I'm wondering if I should buy a better DisplayPort cable (the one that's highly recommended is 30 euros). I bought this monitor primarily for the 144hz, so it's a real pity if nothing can be done.
Thanks in advance!
New to the forums, and the topic title is pretty much the reason I found these forums in the first place, thanks to some Googling on the matter.
I bought this monitor about a week ago, and pretty much on day 1, I noticed the monitor had some visible 'scanlines', mostly at the bottom left section of the screen, but only at 144hz and up (veeeery minor at 120hz). Extremely visible when overclocked to 180hz (even from far away). Thanks to a lot of peeps on this forum, I realized it's a "panel lottery" thing, and that it's quite common for 24" 144hz monitors to have this issue.
I have a few questions, though. Can something be done about it? Would installing drivers for the monitor have any effect? What about Nvidia drivers? Would it help to change DisplayPort cable (the one I'm using now came with the monitor)? Are there settings in Windows/NVIDIA I can change that might help? How much of a lottery is there? If I exchange the monitor, what are the changes my new one will also have these scanlines? 100%? 50%? 1%?
I'm very much doubting whether I should RMA the monitor because of this, and I'm wondering if I should buy a better DisplayPort cable (the one that's highly recommended is 30 euros). I bought this monitor primarily for the 144hz, so it's a real pity if nothing can be done.
Thanks in advance!