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I primarily play overwatch at night. I currently own the BenQ XL2540. I love the monitor. Except the colors look very washed out unless I turn the brightness up to 100%. The problem is my eyes strain after an hour of playing on a bright screen at night. If I turn the brightness down to 50% I don't have eye strain but I can't see what's going on in the game.I invested in a medialight bias lighting strip which is 6500k with 95cri but the problem is the monitor is MUCH brighter than the lighting I feel like the bias lighting benefits are negated by the monitor brightness.

Before I bought the medialight stripe I used 100 watt 6500k led light bulb with 80 CRI that I had in a lamp which I pointed towards the wall behind my monitor. How important is CRI index when I'm trying to reduce eye strain? I'm considering buying 100 watt 6500k led light bulb with high CRI if it is will make a big enough difference.

I'm also willing to invest in another gaming monitor. Is there a gaming monitor that has excellent color reproduction without being extremely bright? I'm willing to downgrade to 144hz and a lower input lag for these traits if it exists.

Wow I dont know a lot about this like you but one reason I bought my recent monitor is its ability to reduce blue light.So maybe you need another monitor to do that if your recent monitor cant do it.
"Digital eyestrain: Blue light from computer screens and digital devices can decrease contrast leading to digital eyestrain."

Odin76 wrote:I primarily play overwatch at night. I currently own the BenQ XL2540. I love the monitor. Except the colors look very washed out unless I turn the brightness up to 100%. The problem is my eyes strain after an hour of playing on a bright screen at night. If I turn the brightness down to 50% I don't have eye strain but I can't see what's going on in the game.I invested in a medialight bias lighting strip which is 6500k with 95cri but the problem is the monitor is MUCH brighter than the lighting I feel like the bias lighting benefits are negated by the monitor brightness.

Before I bought the medialight stripe I used 100 watt 6500k led light bulb with 80 CRI that I had in a lamp which I pointed towards the wall behind my monitor. How important is CRI index when I'm trying to reduce eye strain? I'm considering buying 100 watt 6500k led light bulb with high CRI if it is will make a big enough difference.

I'm also willing to invest in another gaming monitor. Is there a gaming monitor that has excellent color reproduction without being extremely bright? I'm willing to downgrade to 144hz and a lower input lag for these traits if it exists.

Are all the lighting sources you used dimmable? That would mean they are flicker free. Maybe you need warmer colour temperature lights. 6500k light can be pretty harsh especially at night. It can be tricky to get room lighting correct. What about 5 dimmable light bulbs at 3000 so the colour is yellow not harsh white. Hopefully with a high CRI. I have Halogen lights in my game room which only cost me 1.25 each and last 3000 hours. Incandescent and halogen are 100cri if you buy the clear ones. If you buy the frosted ones the rating goes down a bit. Are you by a window? During the day when natural light comes in do you get strain? If so it's probably time for a new monitor. If you don't get strain keep playing with the lights in your room till you get it right.

try turning the brightness down and using more black equilizer on the 2540

Hi,
I have the xl2546 and have the same problem BUT i've found some great settings and now it's almost perfect for me (no more eyes strain)

I don't know if you can use those settings with the xl2540 but you can give a try :

Black eq 3
Color Vibrance 15
Low blue light 10
Instant mode on
Brightness 80
Contrast 100
Gamma 4

Custom Colors
R : 73
G : 79
B : 91
AMA high

Also, in Nvidia control panel, I changed few settings:
Gamma 0.97
Colors Vibrance 43
Prerender frame 2 (just personal)

Strobe utility:
5
22
(I also play with dyac on high but I don't know if the classic blur reduction is the same)

Overwatch fps cap 239
1000hz mouse settings

And the most important thing, if you have a 10xx series (1080ti here), DON'T USE THE LAST DRIVER OR ANY WITH GEFORCE EXPERIENCE, I have downloaded the 398.11 and everything is smooth now. (I mostly play Overwatch, tried Doom and works perfectly with vulkan, Half-Life 2 run perfectly so I guess csgo too, Starcraft 2... )

Voila !

MagneticDev wrote:Hi,
I have the xl2546 and have the same problem BUT i've found some great settings and now it's almost perfect for me (no more eyes strain)

I don't know if you can use those settings with the xl2540 but you can give a try :

Black eq 3
Color Vibrance 15
Low blue light 10
Instant mode on
Brightness 80
Contrast 100
Gamma 4

Custom Colors
R : 73
G : 79
B : 91
AMA high

Also, in Nvidia control panel, I changed few settings:
Gamma 0.97
Colors Vibrance 43
Prerender frame 2 (just personal)

Strobe utility:
5
22
(I also play with dyac on high but I don't know if the classic blur reduction is the same)

Overwatch fps cap 239
1000hz mouse settings

And the most important thing, if you have a 10xx series (1080ti here), DON'T USE THE LAST DRIVER OR ANY WITH GEFORCE EXPERIENCE, I have downloaded the 398.11 and everything is smooth now. (I mostly play Overwatch, tried Doom and works perfectly with vulkan, Half-Life 2 run perfectly so I guess csgo too, Starcraft 2... )

Voila !

I tried those monitor settings last night and it made a big difference. I wasn't getting eye strain and the colors were still good enough. Thanks!