Asus XG27AQDMG Discussion

[barnacle_bawlz]

Hi all,

So i bought the XG27AQDMG

Its sharp, black is black colors are vivid and nice but then a play a game like Elden Ring

There is an issue no matter what i tried it's still there the best way i can describe it is:

"there is a purple hue specially noticeable on branches, certain walls in specific angle, grass, trees, spider webs etc even on the character it self" It's there but extremely noticeable but enough to annoy the hell out of me. Did NOT had this issue with my excellent Eizo FS2735 monitor (IPS)

Changed screen frequency, played with the OS settings went from 8bit to 10bit changed cables ie hdmi then displayport. Nothing seems to work.

I use a AMD 9070 XT (XFX 9070 xt Mercury magnetic air oc)
This nonsense is pissing me off paid good money for it.
And yes i am using the latest driver ie "MCM104"

So what is causing this?

If I'm reading this the way I'm thinking you're trying to convey it, its the black crush. Sort of like the gamma ramp just not being right. I really don't know how to fix it, personally; so I'm sorry about that, but, others I've seen, elsewhere, have mentioned it. When it works, its a great monitor, but sometimes... oof.

For example, in The Last of Us: Part 2, the loading screen with the light/god ray, it just looks so god awfully messed up. Looks like when you'd use 16-bit colors in games back in the 3DFX days lol.

[_zebracrossing666]

Hi all,

So i bought the XG27AQDMG

Its sharp, black is black colors are vivid and nice but then a play a game like Elden Ring

There is an issue no matter what i tried it's still there the best way i can describe it is:

"there is a purple hue specially noticeable on branches, certain walls in specific angle, grass, trees, spider webs etc even on the character it self" It's there but extremely noticeable but enough to annoy the hell out of me. Did NOT had this issue with my excellent Eizo FS2735 monitor (IPS)

Changed screen frequency, played with the OS settings went from 8bit to 10bit changed cables ie hdmi then displayport. Nothing seems to work.

I use a AMD 9070 XT (XFX 9070 xt Mercury magnetic air oc)
This nonsense is pissing me off paid good money for it.
And yes i am using the latest driver ie "MCM104"

So what is causing this?

If I'm reading this the way I'm thinking you're trying to convey it, its the black crush. Sort of like the gamma ramp just not being right. I really don't know how to fix it, personally; so I'm sorry about that, but, others I've seen, elsewhere, have mentioned it. When it works, its a great monitor, but sometimes... oof.

For example, in The Last of Us: Part 2, the loading screen with the light/god ray, it just looks so god awfully messed up. Looks like when you'd use 16-bit colors in games back in the 3DFX days lol.

he said a purple hue lol that isn't black crush

I had this issue in Elden Ring as well(if I remember right, could have been another game but I kept seeing a blue/purpleish hue on some things when there shouldn't've been)

If it makes you feel any better, I haven't experienced this on any other game. I don't know why it's happening and if it is the monitor causing it

Does it still look like that with HDR off? Or VRR off?

edit: here is someone else complaining about it on Elden Ring and is indeed using an OLED monitor too https://steamcommunity.com/app/1245620/ ... 503767414/

[soojineee]

Hello,

What are the best wipes to clean the XG27AQDMG? I read about the horror stories of smears and smudges left after a cleaning, but I don't really see a definitive answer.

Can I just an alcohol based wipe for the screen? Any recommendations? Thank you!

[_zebracrossing666]

Hello,

What are the best wipes to clean the XG27AQDMG? I read about the horror stories of smears and smudges left after a cleaning, but I don't really see a definitive answer.

Can I just an alcohol based wipe for the screen? Any recommendations? Thank you!

use a microfibre cloth and distilled water

the horror stories you hear don't apply to this monitor, it isn't prone to scratches as easily as glossy QD-OLED

[dontpokethebear]

They mentioned shadow detail for HDR in the notes - does anyone know if the black crush in SDR is fixed?

It's not fixed. You can mend it by doing what the original poster did with nosrgb, but even then I encountered some flaws in actual gameplay scenarios. For example this image from FF16 although there is less "black crushing" there is definitely something wrong with the image. You also lose the oversaturation and vivid colors from base Racing Mode and using Saturation on OSD doesn't really match up with it somehow.

I HAVE THIS ISSUE ON MY SONY M10s
I'm GOING INSANE AHHHH

[dontpokethebear]

VRR throws a wrench in it. The lower the FPS, the more the black levels are raised. You can test this by running a game in Steam and opening the lagom site in the Steam Overlay's browser while VRR is active.

This is driving me CRAZY!!!

on my Sony M10s I am getting posterization that makes this UNUSABLE within the 60-120hz region. Need a fix!!!

[Supermodel_Evelynn]

I have this monitor and it stinks, worse OLED I ever used the black crush and color banding is awful

Anyway to get 6-bit temporal dithering on an AMD GPU? can you use CRU for this? any guide on this?

[_zebracrossing666]

I have this monitor and it stinks, worse OLED I ever used the black crush and color banding is awful

Anyway to get 6-bit temporal dithering on an AMD GPU? can you use CRU for this? any guide on this?

Are you the person on Reddit who constantly posts the exact same complaints about this monitor in diff posts for months? Because I don't think you understand how colours work on W-OLED and QD-OLED if you think your 34" QD-OLED had better HDR lol. HDR on QD-OLED monitors is more like SDR+, anything above a 10% APL has the same or worse colour brightness than the average W-OLED monitor. The only time it can be considered real HDR is in 1-2% APL in peak 1000 mode, but that mode's ABL is too aggressive so a lot of people don't even use it.

Plus this is the best W-OLED monitor for HDR that you can buy, in terms of measurements and comparisons against proper HDR mastering monitors. It has the highest colour volume for any W-OLED monitor and beats the LG C4, it has over 500 nits real scene brightness whereas most QD-OLEDs are in the 350-400 range, it has almost flawless EOTF tracking at all APL sizes and is better than most OLED monitors, far better than any QD-OLED monitors EOTF curve.

Lastly, the black crush and colour banding are common issues on W-OLED panels. I'd say colour banding is actually a problem on all OLED panels, but moreso on W-OLED. Thankfully in HDR there is no black crush OR noticeable colour banding(there will be some if you use VRR and have low fps)

[HGBowling]

Hi, looking for advise:

I have had this monitor for 9 months now. Happy with the performance in HDR, but SDR not so much...

I have an LG OLED CX, and SDR content looks very good and punchy on it (Filmmaker mode and followed HDTVtest's Vincent Theo's advice for accurate picture settings), but on my ASUS monitor SDR looks so dull and a bit washed out... I tried both sRGB Cal Mode and the Racing Mode...

Any advice?
Thanks in advance!

[RealNC]

Any advice?

See first post in this thread. Use:

Gaming->GameVisual: User Mode
Gaming->GameVisual->Shadow Boost: OFF
Image->Uniform Brightness: ON
Color->Display Color Space: Wide Gamut
Color->Color Temp: User (100, 100, 100)
Color->Gamma: 2.0 (or 2.2 if you prefer the look of darker shadows)

And use novideo_srgb EDID mode with target set to "sRGB/BT.709".

180Hz and 240Hz should look great. 144Hz and lower will negatively affect the gamma curve. Also you need to get into the habit of manually disabling the novideo_srgb clamp manually before switching to HDR mode and enabling it again after switching to SDR mode.

If you're on an AMD GPU, then use the driver's sRGB clamp instead of novideo_srgb.