First IPS First Eye Strain Ever
Posted: 29 May 2026, 11:03
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.
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.