First IPS First Eye Strain Ever

[ihateips]

My first monitor at childhood was an IBM E74 which I didn't have issues with. I bought my first monitor an Philips 223v5 which I still didn't have any issues with. My eye strain issues started when I got MSI MP251. At first I was shocked by brightness which I instantly dropped to 0 and had to even put contrast to 0 to make it darker. I disabled MPRT mode bakcstrobe flashing the whole overdrive stuff but even months later even after a good nights sleep my eyes feel super tired especially above my eyeball. I don't really game at much just reading text and stuff and for some reason even trying to focus at text feels tiring like I am forcing my eyes to focus.

What exactly is the cause with the monitor? It doesn't seem to have PWM and closest thing to PWM it has is the cheap 6 bit to 8 bit pulsating it supposedly has. My 223v5 had good TN panel and this IPS is ruining my eyes so bad. I even got eye diagnosis (I am early 20s) and my astigmatism was 0.50 and myopia hypermetorphia was practically non existant. The whole orange filter app stuff doesn't seem to make much of a difference too honestly.

Is there anything I can do? I heard of people removing anti-reflection filters and I am starting to feel desperate but afraid of ruining my monitor only for things to be the same. I am almost considering using my PSVR2 as a monitor at this point since even slapping screens with horrid lenses at lowest brightness PWM feels lot more comfortable.

[kyube]

My first monitor at childhood was an IBM E74 which I didn't have issues with. I bought my first monitor an Philips 223v5 which I still didn't have any issues with. My eye strain issues started when I got MSI MP251. At first I was shocked by brightness which I instantly dropped to 0 and had to even put contrast to 0 to make it darker. I disabled MPRT mode (backlight strobing, flashing), the whole overdrive stuff but even months later even after a good nights sleep my eyes feel super tired especially above my eyeball. I don't really game at much just reading text and stuff and for some reason even trying to focus at text feels tiring like I am forcing my eyes to focus.

What exactly is the cause with the monitor? It doesn't seem to have PWM and closest thing to PWM it has is the cheap 6 bit to 8 bit pulsating it supposedly has. My 223v5 had good TN panel and this IPS is ruining my eyes so bad. I even got eye diagnosis (I am early 20s) and my astigmatism was 0.50 and myopia hypermetorphia was practically non existant. The whole orange filter app stuff doesn't seem to make much of a difference too honestly.

Is there anything I can do? I heard of people removing anti-reflection filters and I am starting to feel desperate but afraid of ruining my monitor only for things to be the same. I am almost considering using my PSVR2 as a monitor at this point since even slapping screens with horrid lenses at lowest brightness PWM feels lot more comfortable.

It's difficult to extrapolate an entire subset of LCD based on your small sample size of mentioned monitors.
There are +2k different IPS models on the market, of which there are likely +200 different panels with different characteristics.

I suggest purchasing a high specification, non-"professional" LCD instead.
These designations of "gaming", "professional", "programming" are marketing terms, which should be ignored.
Electronic visual displays should only be categorized based on specifications (display reso AKA pixel density, refresh rate, color gamut,...)
It's best to consider variables, such as:
- Your use-case (gaming or text/office-oriented)
- Your environmental constraints (desk depth, window placement)
- Your budget
It would also help mentioning all electronic displays which worked or haven't worked for you, historically. Include hand-held and large screens as well in this list.

[ihateips]

It would also help mentioning all electronic displays which worked or haven't worked for you, historically. Include hand-held and large screens as well in this list.

These three devices are all I used mainly. I also remmeber some old really low quality colors LG monitor years ago and countless phones like Grand 2 Duos/P1 Turbo/Mi Max 2/Redmi Note 8 but nothing caused issues for me. MP251 is the only monitor that caused me issues so far

I am not really interested about buying another monitor honestly. I just want to get the most out of my current MP251 by lowering fatique issues since I mainly do PSVR2 for flight games and that's most I use my PC for other than watching documentaries on my monitor.