ViewSonic XG2431 Discussion Thread [Blur Busters Approved XG2431 - 24" 240Hz IPS with Best Strobing]

[Supermodel_Evelynn]

With that said ASUS has just released a WOLED LG panel monitor 27" 240 HZ that has a GLOSSY COATING yes you heard it right and they are branding it as the world's first Glossy OLED gaming monitor.

This is the dream and it's only $750 this is what people have dreamed about for decades.

That glossy coating blows these nasty matte coating monitors away, matte coating is like Vaseline smeared shit all over your screen.

No matter what you do, you will NEVER EVER get a strobed LCD monitor with glossy coating and I don't think even the best strobing could win me over something like a glossy oled without strobing

[kyube]

I just want to give a warning to potential buyers of the XG2431
It has oscillations in backlight during specific transitions, very likely in +1kHz range. It should be akin to the intensity of display scanaout brightness dip of OLED or perhaps a bit stronger in intensity.
This would explain some complaints people had at the beginning, claiming the panel gave them eyestrain.

[Lev1n]

Hello, I want to do real display scaling 1440x1080 or 1350x1080 with cru or manual timings on nvidia panel but monitor is getting so blurry when i put timings on cru/nvidia panel can even read texts. Does this means monitor cant handle timings or im doing something wrong.

[gameman272]

Okay, so I just bought this monitor, but couldn't get QFT to work from the Nvidia Control Panel via HDMI. I could only get it to work through DisplayPort. Was I doing something wrong?

I first went through an Elgato HD 60 X, then did a direct connection from my GPU to the display. I have an RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition if that changes anything. My capture card route is through an Orei 4x1 HDMI 2.0 switcher which goes through an Orei 1x2 HDMI 2.0 splitter, then finally to the Elgato HD 60 X.

EDIT: I decided to keep the DisplayPort connection, but mirror it through the HDMI port via the capture card route. So it's going through an HDMI switcher and then an HDMI splitter. I had to mess with the EDID settings on the capture card to get it to work. Then I set the XG2431 as the primary display and mirrored it to the capture card through the Nvidia Control Panel. Both use reference mode colors, and 8-bit limited range RGB because I don't think the XG2431 is a true 10-bit monitor. On Windows, I made Custom Scaling 100% because of some windows being resized or zoomed in when exiting fullscreen applications.

The XG2431 uses a custom 1920x1080 60Hz progressive scan resolution via the Nvidia Control Panel with large vertical totals at 4350 pixels, trying to keep the pixel clock frequency below or at whatever was the default for the 1920x1080 240Hz progressive scan mode. Using the ViewSonic Strobe Utility, I made a custom PureXP+ profile at 11 Pulse Width, 90 Pulse Phase, and 4 Overdrive Gain. From what I can tell, there's no ghosting and very light amount of crosstalk from the utility. I'm talking not even noticable unless you are explicitly looking for it. This is a very, very, very good monitor for motion clarity, but requires some tinkering in unconventional setups.

[Supermodel_Evelynn]

Does anyone know how to access the service menu on this XG2431? Mine arrived today with the factory seal on the box broken. If the monitor was used before, I wanna check for how long.

Try turning the monitor off first. Hold the Menu button and turn the monitor on while you keep holding the menu button. Pressing the menu button again should pop up the service menu (at least this is how it's done on older Viewsonic models)

I found how to access the service menu. I had to press and hold the middle menu button (There are 5 menu buttons). Unfortunately, there is no indication of how long the backlight has been running.

have you experimented with overclocking by raising ISET?

I set my PWN to 40 and ISET to 150 which is like 250 nits strobed

Default this monitor is locked to 200 nit strobed.

What's the highest this could go?

I only want like 3 or 4 years out of this monitor, could I go higher than 150 and be safe or I should stick to ISET 150?

[James Freeman]

Hi.
Can this monitor do single strobe in 48Hz?
I want to watch movies like we did in cinema with double shutters, before digital projectors.

[RealNC]

Hi.
Can this monitor do single strobe in 48Hz?
I want to watch movies like we did in cinema with double shutters, before digital projectors.

Didn't cinemas use triple shutters? (72Hz.)

[James Freeman]

Didn't cinemas use triple shutters? (72Hz.)

I've googled and this is what I found:

Just remember, when you put a real 3-wing shutter in any projector, you will loose 1/2 the light...thems the math.

In answer to Mark's question, most projector mechanisms nowadays are supplied with two-blade shutters as standard, with three-blade ones available to order as a separate part.

Source:
http://www.film-tech.com/ubb/f1/t008634.html

See the date of that thread, 2007, the majority of cinemas were still using 35mm projectors.


Even "modern" ones that were used up to the mid-lat 00's before digital cinema took over used two-bladed shutters, with an option to replace the shutter with three bladed as a separate part.
https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/fo ... um/5041857

[James Freeman]

Bumping the question, is there a 'hack' to strobe at 48Hz?
That would be really useful for movie enthusiasts who want the pre-digital-cinema projector experience.

[Discorz]

Bumping the question, is there a 'hack' to strobe at 48Hz?

I used to have a XG2431 batch that can do <60Hz strobing. Although pulse width and other strobe utility settings were locked and pulse was too dim/short. It was probably a bug that they later fixed becase newer units can't do that anymore.