BenQ UNIVERSAL 144Hz->220Hz OVERCLOCK for 1080p 144 Hz

Talk about overclocking displays at a higher refresh rate. This includes homebrew, 165Hz, QNIX, Catleap, Overlord Tempest, SEIKI displays, certain HDTVs, and other overclockable displays.
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Re: BenQ UNIVERSAL 144Hz->220Hz OVERCLOCK for 1080p 144 Hz

Post by Chief Blur Buster » 28 Apr 2022, 20:15

Try a larger VBI.

Your VBI is only 14 scanlines (1094-1080), which means your monitor's firmware only has 14/1094ths of 1/179sec to prepare for a new refresh cycle.

To fix this, make sure your VBI is a little larger when trying to increase Hz.

Sometimes reducing VBI helps -- but during the first stage of refresh rate overclocking, it's best to keep VBI bigger. Once you max out, you can attempt to reduce the VBI size to try to milk a little more, but it seems like it might be possible the VBI size (too small Vertical Total) was reduced a little too much.

You need to give the monitor more safety margin of time to prepare for new refresh cycles.

The funny numbers in ToastyX are extra pixels above top edge of screen, beyond left edge and right edge, and below bottom edge of the screen. The screen is only showing a windowed subset of the display signal.

The layout of a signal structure is this:

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As a serialization of 2D imagery into a 1D cable (DisplayPort), pixels are transmitted left to right, top to bottom. Like the letters of a book. Except the refresh cycles (like a book page) are pixels and colors rather than letters. And you have the hidden porch/sync stuff beyond edges of the screen. The horizontal sync/porches are often needed to give time for the monitor to prepare to receive a new pixel row over the cable from the GPU, and the vertical sync/porches are often needed to give time for the monitor to prepare to receive a new refresh cycle.

The Pixel Clock is the number of pixels per second, so higher pixel clocks sometimes need bigger values for the porches/sync to add a tiny bit more padding. Maybe not much -- but 1094 is only 14 pixels more than 1080, which is sometimes exceedingly fast for old monitor electronics.

Sometimes monitor electronics are so fast, that you can use tiny porches. But older monitors have slower refresh electronics, so sometimes enlarging the porches a tiny bit (especially the vertical -- use 1125 or so, instead of 1094), can allow more overclocking headroom on certain BenQ panels -- it varies quite a lot from BenQ to BenQ but the monitor processing has a fixed time, and if you overclock, your porches are briefer, so you have to compensate by adding extra padding in a faster signal, to give the monitor more time for processing between pixel rows, and more time for processing between refresh cycles.

By understanding the signal layout and understanding the purpose of the numbers in ToastyX, it becomes easier to overclock higher than just randomly playing with the numbers blindly. Metaphorically because editing the number is changing the size of a book page, and the speed of book reading, for a display that can only read a book page at a specific speed, and need time to turn the pages (e.g. time between refresh cycles) -- as the pixels of a refresh cycle is transmitted from GPU to monitor -- left-to-right, top-to-bottom -- like reading the sequence of the letters of a book, except it's pixels.
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Re: BenQ UNIVERSAL 144Hz->220Hz OVERCLOCK for 1080p 144 Hz

Post by Kiritox » 05 May 2022, 19:32

200 Hz at benq xl2430 with display port using s switch method

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Re: BenQ UNIVERSAL 144Hz->220Hz OVERCLOCK for 1080p 144 Hz

Post by ItsDyre » 14 May 2022, 04:04

Hello, I have an XL2411P, I tried all the methods mentioned in this thread but in vain.So, from what I read from all the other replies I need to have V002 firmware to overclock my monitor. I can't find any info on how to access the service menu for my monitor in order to check the firmware version. Could someone please help me with checking my firmware version and giving me any info on how to roll back to an earlier firmware version? If anybody has the same monitor and was able to overclock it, some help would be appreciated, I would like to get this monitor at 200hz.Thank you

My discord: Dyre#8008

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Re: BenQ UNIVERSAL 144Hz->220Hz OVERCLOCK for 1080p 144 Hz

Post by empty » 09 Jun 2022, 15:40

d3ssorion wrote:
19 Feb 2022, 12:21
Hello, I overclocked my xl2411p through the display port to 200Hz without degrading the picture quality, and also keep the display scalling. 8 bit color works without artifacts.
The only problem that I could not overcome is non-working ama. Has anyone found a solution to this problem? I'm used to this setting and can't play without it.
Who could not overcome 150Hz on xl2411p - turn off the ama, save gamer preset and use OOR Buster by Chopper1337.

Here are my settings:
1280 960
24 3
32 5
80 10
136 18
1416 978
Can't do it!
Can you help?

Hello,
I can't go over 151hz with my XL2411P.
My firmware version 009.
Did anyone with version 009 made it over 151?
Also, i there any way to downgrade my firmware to version 2?
Thanks

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Re: BenQ UNIVERSAL 144Hz->220Hz OVERCLOCK for 1080p 144 Hz

Post by roca1337 » 04 Jul 2022, 18:54

I cant seem to overclock my XL2411K to 165 / 180 hz even with oor booster it still says out of range anyone can help me with this situation?

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Re: BenQ UNIVERSAL 144Hz->220Hz OVERCLOCK for 1080p 144 Hz

Post by Schurkee » 07 Jul 2022, 15:35

XL2411P 200HZ Successful:
monitor settings:

- Blur reduction ON
- AMA OFF
- Instant mode ON
- Gamma 5
- Picture mode MOVIE or STANDARD Worked with both

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Re: BenQ UNIVERSAL 144Hz->220Hz OVERCLOCK for 1080p 144 Hz

Post by Cact_I » 26 Aug 2022, 22:11

maybe some one who has the ability could pull the working firmware off their xl2411p with an spi programmer or something similar :D

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Re: BenQ UNIVERSAL 144Hz->220Hz OVERCLOCK for 1080p 144 Hz

Post by elestopa » 05 Oct 2022, 18:26

I have achieved 220hz on my xl2411p, although after a while it has not been able to hold the stability. There is a small vertical glitch/gap a little to the right of the center of the screen, and the texts in that area look a bit strange.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/By86Ts856Eyog99R7
I keep testing
Testufo.... https://photos.app.goo.gl/5wgo9yTUPWoA51bo9
Config nvidia
https://photos.app.goo.gl/5KVsLv5S4WztaAZG9
The image is not very clear and I also have horizontal lines, besides, I don't know what I have done with cru that I have lost the 144hz resolution and I had to add a custom one. I'll go back to pass ddu and start over.
I have also forced the scaling on the screen and not on the gpu, the mouse movement feels smoother

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Re: BenQ UNIVERSAL 144Hz->220Hz OVERCLOCK for 1080p 144 Hz

Post by death5888 » 14 Oct 2022, 03:55

Hi,
I'm not sure what happened, but I can't download softMCCS from the any of the links to download it.

Has it been deleted or something?
If so, is there any other way to download it?

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Re: BenQ UNIVERSAL 144Hz->220Hz OVERCLOCK for 1080p 144 Hz

Post by bishofz » 14 Oct 2022, 09:15

death5888 wrote:
14 Oct 2022, 03:55
Hi,
I'm not sure what happened, but I can't download softMCCS from the any of the links to download it.

Has it been deleted or something?
If so, is there any other way to download it?
Having same issue too - can you maybe reupload it please? @Chief Blur Buster

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