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Hello,

I have recently purchased myself the XL2430T for Xmas!Now I need your help with configuring this monitor!
If anybody has the best setting avaible for this particular monitor please post it here!

2430T is a Z monitor with a few extra things like digital vibrance (which I think is just saturation unlocked to be used in DVI mode, TBH) and some black equalizer and profile changes.

Usually best for Z monitors is : standard mode, Brightness 30, contrast 43, digital vibrance one below default, for regular non blur reduction operation. Color user: 100, 98, 96 or 100,100,92 or something.

For Blur reduction mode, vertical total 1500 or 1350, brightness 100, strobe phase (area) 000, strobe duty (intensity) 006.

Yes! I was looking for the blur reduction setting,but how do I change vertical total(VTtweaks ?) ?

Oh and one problem,the brightness is a bit low when using blur reduction,anyway to increase it|? because before I turned on blur reduction it was like staring at the sun,but now the screen brightness is way too low!

The persistence (Brightness; lower brightness =less motion blur (lower persistence in ms) is related to each other
The brightness you will get goes up the more motion blur you have and the clearer the motion you get less brightness.

WITHOUT VERTICAL TOTAL TWEAKS, the chart is here for the persistence values for the pulse widths the backlight is using:
http://display-corner.epfl.ch/index.php/BenQ_XL2411Z

Vertical total tweaking makes the backlight use the 60hz pulse widths so the brightness is increased (whenever the monitor is run far out of specification, it switches to the 60hz backlight pulse widths, although in some bizarre resolution/refresh rate combos, it can use the 144 hz pulse width at 100hz, which will completely mess up blur reduction). The benefit to VT tweaks is you extend the size of the screen without strobe pulse settling errors (distance from top to bottom without that ugly double thick ghosting band) so a VT tweak of 1500 makes the monitor very similar to "Lightboost" mode's crosstalk.

I recommend VT 1500 and 006 strobe duty

OK,I understand.

After playing CS:GO and Far Cry 4,I can only say this.In CS:GO 144hz is amazing,and the colors look great,but in Far Cry 4 the colors look a bit-off,I just have a feeling it can be fixed with some tweaks,same goes to the white colors on the Firefox browser.Compared to my old 60 hz LED monitor they look a bit off too.

One cut-scene in Far Cry 4 looked absolutely horrible,but when the game started it went away,the trees look a bit too bright,I remember that the colors were a bit darker on my old LED monitor.

As for VT tweaks,I think I have to accses the benQ service menu,though I do not know how to do that on this XL2430T model.

Since the XL2430T is so new,I just can not find any settings online except for one ICC profile,but the changes in it do not help me.This new monitor has way more settings and options compared to my old LG Flatron E2260,I wish that the colors would look more similar to it,but I think I am just going to have to wait for some reviews + configurations to pop-up online!

Check the other threads about how to use the VT tweaks. There is a LOT of exact detail both me and masterotaku wrote up, as well as making sure the AMD or Nvidia pixel clock patcher actually works (if you ever exceed 330.00 MHz pixel clock).

The VT tweaks are done using the ToastyX Custom Resolution Utility
http://www.monitortests.com/forum/Threa ... tility-CRU
which also has links to the pixel clock patchers and the convenient driver restarter (for restarting after making changes to the display resolutions/VT tweaks).

The service menu has nothing to do with VT tweaks. It's just a convenient way of changing strobe settings on the fly without having the windows utility, however you have the 2430T--the 2430T has the strobe duty and phase (known now as Intensity and Area) adjustable through the OSD, while the Z series monitors required you to go into the service menu to change these values. The Single Strobe on/off setting still can only be changed in the service menu, though.

(To enter the service menu, with the power button off, hold "Menu" for 5 seconds, then press the power button while holding menu, then release both. Alternatively you can press menu and power at the same time then hold menu for 5 seconds that way. Once a screen appears, you can enter the service menu by pressing menu. To enter the "Factory" menu, you hold down Enter and Menu for 5 seconds, with the monitor off, then press the monitor on button).

Some colors will appear strange or oversaturated or undersaturated (RTS mode blue, anyone??) unless you are using "Standard mode."
Gamma "5" will also give you darker darks, but will drop the gamma point to 2.4 (a high gamma point is sometimes good for games).
2430T also has a new digital vibrance setting; some people said that reducing the value by 1 makes the colors the same as the Z series by default).

Please note that on the Z series, "Black Equalizer", which is not available in standard mode (there's a reason for that!!) does a combination of gamma and white/black balance adjustments at once, with EQ 0 making the blacks VERY dark. I found out by experimentation that certain 'points' in the black equalizer will change the preset gamma. I think going from EQ 3 to 2 sets the gamma to 5, and going from EQ 17 to 18 sets the gamma to 1, but there are more than just gamma tweaks involved in the black equalizer. But you can use this knowledge to easily determine that you will get the darkest blacks (in standard mode) at gamma 5.

This is why, by the way, why you will Never and can NEVER have Black Equalizer AND Gamma settings available at the same time.

Ok,
I have set 1500 in VT.I am able to access the service menu(should I turn on single strobe???) and in the utility under Frequency I see it says 60hz,should I leave it at 60 or set it at 144(which is what I had set it to under my display settings in control panel)

I have set the VT to 1500 lines(was 1125) and left 2200 horizontal!Now I will restart my PC for the changes to take affect!

As I said, whenever using any VT Tweak, the backlight pulses switch to 60hz. That's fine. that means your VT tweak is working
that happens whenever the monitor gets timings that are far from the default timings.

At 144 hz, you can't use a VT tweak. 144 hz uses reduced timings anyway.

And yes, enabling single strobe stops certain strobe setting bugs from happening.

Hmm,ok I have the same exact settings with blur reduction,the monitor seems to be bright enough,though I still do not like the color that the monitor displays(the white colors on my Firefox browser appear like grey colors.This might be because its a new monitor and all,so I will just have to get used to this then,probably can't have the same colors as my old LG.

144Hz is still a major win!I love it,even dragging windows and the mouse pointer feels smooth!