Upgraded monitor - Eyestrain

[gael]

Hi,

I've been using dual monitors for many years now, a HP 24er and a OMEN by HP 25. Never had any issues with them, and could use them all day for 12+ hours, even in pitch black, without any discomfort.

The HP 24er started dying so I upgraded to a Xiaomi G Pro 27Qi 2026. I've been using it for some days and I can't really use it more than 2-3 hours without my eyes feeling really tired, sometimes itchy and dry. I've tried alot of stuff such as turning Local Dimming off, warmer colors, lower brightness, low blue light, but nothing seems to work.

My eyes feel fine again if I stop looking at it for several minutes. I don't know what could be causing it. Resolution change? QD screen? Do my eyes just have to adapt? I noticed that it's harder for my eyes to focus on this monitor. When I look at the OMEN by HP 25 monitor they go back to relaxed.

[Mrlokin]

}I have the same problem but I haven't found a solution yet

[SupergirlMAID]

Mini-LEDs are known to cause more eye fatigue than IPS.

I have come across multiple threads on Reddit about this (don't get me started on OLED)...

Some tips to help with it can be reduce brightness, use bias lighting in your room, and at least for me dark mode for everything (even the desktop wallpaper) is really needed (bright backgrounds shove more blue light in our faces, too). One thing that may be influencing the results is probably some sort of tech as described below, in a review from the IPS monitor ASUS XG32UCG:

Next, there’s the ELMB (Extreme Low Motion Blur) feature, which uses backlight strobing to reduce perceived motion blur at the cost of image brightness as long as you’re refresh rate is 85Hz or higher.

It also supports ELMB-Sync, which allows you to use ELMB and VRR simultaneously to both reduce motion blur and keep screen tearing at bay.

You can adjust strobe length (the trade-off between motion clarity and sacrificed screen brightness, with a 5-level setting) and strobe phase (which part of the image will be the clearest with minimal strobe crosstalk or image duplications).

Another downside of ELMB is that it introduces screen flickering. It’s invisible to the human eye, but it can cause headaches after prolonged use to those sensitive to screen flickering.

The backlight of the monitor is otherwise flicker-free and there’s a low-blue light filter mode available.

If I had this monitor, this would be the 1st thing I would turn it off.

If in the end we need to turn off features from the mini-LED monitor to make it look like an IPS (so less eye strain/fatigue), it makes no sense to get a mini-LED instead of any fast IPS.

One of the main culprits for eye strain is definitely a lot of brightness, I use no more than 40 in my Acer XV280K-B (27, 4K, IPS, 60 Hz).