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brownvim wrote: ↑

11 Feb 2026, 09:52

I think it’s good for single player games, looking forward to playing High on Life 2 next, I just completed Black Myth Wukong on it. At around 150-200fps it’s so nice.

I’m currently playing Nioh 3, it’s capped at 120hz. I can still see a slight double image at 120hz. If I framegen it to 240 it goes away but the game messes up the frame pacing so it stutters.

I still think it needs better tuning below 100hz.

It’s so much clearer playing single player games on compared to my 175hz OLED at the same frame rates.

Are you physically making sure the monitor itself is recieving a 120hz signal? It sounds like you are recieving a 240hz strobed to 960hz. Hence why you are getting a double image artifact.

purplemelon1 wrote: ↑

11 Feb 2026, 18:29

brownvim wrote: ↑

11 Feb 2026, 09:52

I think it’s good for single player games, looking forward to playing High on Life 2 next, I just completed Black Myth Wukong on it. At around 150-200fps it’s so nice.

I’m currently playing Nioh 3, it’s capped at 120hz. I can still see a slight double image at 120hz. If I framegen it to 240 it goes away but the game messes up the frame pacing so it stutters.

I still think it needs better tuning below 100hz.

It’s so much clearer playing single player games on compared to my 175hz OLED at the same frame rates.

Are you physically making sure the monitor itself is recieving a 120hz signal? It sounds like you are recieving a 240hz strobed to 960hz. Hence why you are getting a double image artifact.

Yeah i'm sure its getting 120hz, Nioh 3 is locked to it unless you use frame gen. I also tried it in Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3+4.

I think LFC kicks in below 100hz, will have to double check.

Can DSR be used with these monitors?

7bhsq wrote: ↑

12 Feb 2026, 19:06

Can DSR be used with these monitors?

Forced DSC through DP1.4, so the answer is no.

7bhsq wrote: ↑

12 Feb 2026, 19:06

Can DSR be used with these monitors?

I can use DSR. You can use DSR on these monitors as long as you have a 50 series GPU since they have more bandwidth per display head vs older generation nvidia cards.

So what is the verdict? are these Pulsar the holy grail to replacing CRT? or are we still better off waiting for SONY to somehow restart their old factories and start manufacturing CRT displays again?
Because I saw some monitor unboxed videos for pulsar and it looks like ass at low frame rates with noticeable cross talk on the UFO and was nowhere as clean as a CRT TV in motion.

Also these Pulsar monitors what are the Nits brightness when strobing anyone measured this?

I posted my thoughts/reviews of the ASUS Pulsar monitor on reddit earlier today and thought you might like it as well

I got the monitor last night, so I have been playing around with it a bit now and here are my thoughts so far:

First off, if you buy the ASUS Pulsar monitor, they do a really great factory calibration and give you a piece of paper that shows you your specific monitor's Delta-E average and other things. Mine had a Delta-E of 0.61 and anything under 1.0 is not supposed to be noticeable for the human eye. So it feels wonderful having a very accurate screen, so I know that everything I play and watch looks how the creator intended.

I don't know if Acer, AOC or MSI does that as well.

Regarding the motion clarity:

Enabling Pulsar is both subtle and not subtle.

It's not night and day, but you definitely notice it especially in quick movement and when you pan around. When you enable it, it feels great and when you disable it, you feel annoyed by the motion blur that is suddenly there.

It does clean up the motion clarity, which is exactly what it set out to do.

I have a 4090 paired with a 9800X3D, so I am able to max out a lot of my games (I cap at 324 fps for the best frame pacing), however I tried capping some of my games at 120 fps and testing pulsar on and off there. In Life is Strange 1, when you pan the camera with 120 fps there is a huge difference between pulsar on and off.

Pulsar ON is a lot brighter than Pulsar OFF.

When I have Pulsar ON with 145 brightness I need to put Pulsar OFF at 185 brightness to get the same brightness level.

I only play story-based singleplayer games (except for a bit of Rocket League once in a while), however I own several CRT monitors (including the Sony FW-900) and really enjoy motion clarity.

I am very sensitive to flicker and had to stop using my Samsung Neo G8 with local dimming, as it runs with PWM dimming when local dimming is enabled and only runs DC dimming when local dimming is off.

I haven't noticed any eye strain with Pulsar enabled, however I haven't had any long sessions yet, the longest uninterrupted gaming session with Pulsar enabled being 30 minutes.

Coming from a Samsung Neo G8 with a 1000r curve to this flat monitor will take a few days to get used to, but I am already enjoying the less grainy matte on this monitor, compared to the Samsung.

Hoping they make a glossy Pulsar monitor one day.

If you want to get rid of motion blur, I highly recommend this monitor.

Feel free to ask questions

^ How is the matte coating on the Asus pulsar? how harsh is it?

Also can you do a motion test with full screen UFO so we can see the cross talk at around 80 FPS?

Also can you enable 60 HZ pulsar?

Also how is the flicker at 60hz how bad? or is it Rolling Scan making it easy on the eyes?

The fake review done by monitor unboxed was total ass, he refused to take a snap shot of the entire screen scrolling with UFO at once and also refused to measure the nits brightness with strobing enabled.

Supermodel_Evelynn wrote: ↑

13 Feb 2026, 11:47

So what is the verdict? are these Pulsar the holy grail to replacing CRT? or are we still better off waiting for SONY to somehow restart their old factories and start manufacturing CRT displays again?
Because I saw some monitor unboxed videos for pulsar and it looks like ass at low frame rates with noticeable cross talk on the UFO and was nowhere as clean as a CRT TV in motion.

Also these Pulsar monitors what are the Nits brightness when strobing anyone measured this?

I think some reviewers have been told not to review the monitor until the firmware update is out for low frame rates, TFT Central confirmed this with Tim at hardware unboxed. So will have to wait and see.

Motion at 144+fps is great, better than my OLED.

Brightest my ACER Pulsar goes is 540 nits full screen white with Pulsar on. No flicker at all, looks like a normal screen. Eyes feel more relaxed than looking at my oled but maybe that’s because I see less blur.

Also the Acer comes pre calibrated from factory too, you get the same sheet of paper showing it.

Pulsar only works 75+hz, new firmware will make it work down to 48hz.

brownvim wrote: ↑

13 Feb 2026, 14:52

I think some reviewers have been told not to review the monitor until the firmware update is out for low frame rates, TFT Central confirmed this with Tim at hardware unboxed. So will have to wait and see.

Motion at 150+fps is great, better than my OLED.

Brightest my ACER Pulsar goes is 540 bits full screen white with Pulsar on. No flicker at all, looks like a normal screen. Eyes feel more relaxed than looking at my oled but maybe that’s because I see less blur.

Also the Acer comes pre calibrated from factory too, you get the same sheet of paper showing it.

Something is wrong here, there is noway you are getting 540 nits brightness with Pulsar on and how did you even measure that?

540 nits with pulsar on means that the LEDs are strobing at 2000 Nits