Shifroval wrote: ↑29 Oct 2024, 15:42
Well, I did exactly this and got no results with the asus profile, but got acceptable results with rtings calibrated profile: I can see the two lower rows almost 100%. Before that I could only see the last 2 squares, maybe 3. Someone on reddit was also getting zero improvements and tried calibrating to edid primaries instead. For me that also changed nothing.
So I'm asking what result did you get after calibrating using asus provided profile. Also, do you use user mode? I switched to it immediately, but if you're using e.g racing, you may be getting different results.
User mode. Racing mode has a dimmer red (look like lower luminance for red, not desaturation.) Other than that they look pretty much identical. I would say user mode seems to be the native output of the display.
In EDID mode with novideo_srgb, I can see all squares in the black level test at 120Hz. The first square is hard to tell, but it's still barely distinguishable. At 240Hz, square 5 becomes the first that I can distinguish. The lower the refresh rate gets, the lower the gamma gets as well (it's the cause of VRR flicker.)
It's important to not have an ICC profile in Windows when using novideo_srgb. Otherwise, you're getting double-clamped in browsers and image viewers (since they're color-managed applications) and possibly gamma adjustment applied twice. In the Color Management settings in Windows, make sure the list of profiles for the monitor ("profiles associated with this device") is empty.
Other than that, the relevant settings I'm using in the monitor OSD are:
Game Visual: User Mode
Shadow Boost: OFF
Brightness: 35 (desktop) / 45 (games)
Uniform Brightness: On
Contrast: 80
Display Color Space: Wide Gamut
Color Temp: User (100, 100, 100)
Saturation: 50
Six-axis Saturation: All 50
Gamma: 2.2 (sometimes 2.0, depending on content)
Screen Saver: off
Auto Logo Brightness: off
Note that if you can start distinguishing the 4th square in the black level test, that's a pretty good result already.