ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 DUAL SI
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X CPU Tray
Kingston FURY Beast RGB DDR4 3200MHz 32GB
WD Blue SN570 NVMe SSD 500GB
Kingston NV1 NVMe M.2 SSD 1TB
ASUS ROG Strix B550-E GAMING Motherboard
Cooler Master MWE Gold 850W PSU
Windows 10
Monitor:
AOC C24G2AE/BK 165hz curved
I’m having an odd issue. Whenever I’m moving the color seem to be changing slightly. Also feel like the game flickers while the color changes when moving.
Also when moving, everything seems to get ‘‘unfocused/blurry’’. When I stop moving, everything looks good.
When I stand still and don’t move the camera, everything looks fine. When I move the camera, the colour changes, especially on objects on the ground. When I stop moving the camera, the colour goes back to normal.
Also a new problem occured. When on loading screen, the screen flashes slightly, just enough to be noticable.
Are you using displayport or HDMI currently? Are you using the cable that came with the monitor? Is the monitor currently at 165hz or at 144hz? I’m not familiar with the monitor. Does it support HDR? Is HDR enabled? If I recall that monitor has freesync correct? Make sure its disabled in the monitor menu.
check your monitor menu and look for something like “response time” tune it for your liking!
about flickering could be that your mouse is in software mode try use this in game chat for raw input and smoother movement :
/console rawMouseEnable 1
also check if you have latest video drivers and direct x12 installed because of that flicker on loading screen,i advice you use driver easy (its free version) and check if you need any other importante drivers in all system.
Using displayport for main monitor(AOC monitor) and using HDMI 2.1 for my second monitor. I’m using the cable that came with the monitor. I’m currently running on 165hz on main monitor and 60hz on second monitor. It does support HDR and I have HDR turned off. The AOC monitor has freesync, and I have it enabled.
try without any type of adaptive refresh both in the nvcp and on the monitor. And make sure HDR is really off. Sometimes the nvcp can override the windows setting.
What do you mean by adaptive refresh?(sorry, I’m not the best with computers).
Also, I have only disabled the HDR in the monitor’s menu.
Is there more HDR settings that should be turned off? In windows settings? In nvidia control panel settings? In that case, where do I find the HDR settings in windows and nvidia control panel?
You can find a HDR setting inside windows under display settings. Try turning that off. Or make sure that it is off. We’re trying to narrow down what is happening here. Freesync is an adaptive refresh mode sort of like nvidias own G-sync. Go in to the nvidia control panel and make sure that you’re not using it right now. Also disable Freesync on the monitor itself.
Since I cant see your monitor right now it sounds like there is some funky stuff going on with the color range/bit depth. While you’re at it google if anyone else has a similar issue with that specific monitor.
If it is still funky after we have made sure HDR and Freesync is off or any other type of adaptive sync inside nvidia control panel. Tell me, do you know if the 165hz refresh rate requires you to “overclock” the monitor. Does it have an OC mode?
sounds like a monitor build in “feature”.
i play mainly on samsung tv and it has much build in trash that i had to disable as well. auto dimming stayed forced on until i set the source from hdmi to pc
it might not help but the game appeared to be sharper for me when i set wow.exe in the retail folder to ‘disable full screen optimization’ and dpi scaling to ‘app controlled’
There was a option in the monitor called ”Overdrive” which was set to ”Strong”. When I turned it off, it seem to have fixed my issue.
However, next issue would be that my wow looks kinda blurry-ish. At least the text, such as keybinds, names over characters etc. For an example, when I’m in WSG, I can’t even see my own name above my character, it just melts in with everything else that has green colors.
Basically almost impossible to read names above characters, unless I zoom in on them/myself.
EDIT: In fact, it’s not just in wow it’s ‘‘blurry’’. It’s actually slightly blurry everywhere. Ugh… Must be something with this AOC monitor…
We’ll see what we can do about that. But you dont want to completely disable overdrive. Try to put that setting somewhere in the middle.
Make sure scaling and resolution is set up correctly inside windows aswell under display settings. If you could provide a dxdiag dump that would be great.
Well… I actually had enough of that AOC monitor. After a long research, the AOC monitor is a well-known problem monitor. Also, the AOC monitor had a VA-panel, which as far as I understood, the pixels of VA-panels are more ‘‘blurry’’.
I went to the store and got myself the Asus VG27AQ 27"TUF 165hz QHD 1440p IPS panel instead and voilà! All the problems are gone. =D Now running wow without any problems whatsoever.
Still, I want to thank you so much Gridh for taking your time trying to help me!
Tip to anyone reading this:
Don’t buy the AOC C24G2AE/BK 24"
I’m glad to hear that you found a solution. If you run in to any other issues feel free to keep this thread going. As for TN panels. TN panels these days have a bad rep for no reason. The tech has matured to the point where you can get similar color performance to an IPS. Same goes with the viewing angles. They gotten to the point where all these issues that people mention about TN panels are long gone, or at least far from what they used to be.
At the end of the day. When you’re picking a monitor there will be a compromise somewhere. TN panels tend to have “worse” color accuracy and viewing angles but better response times and higher refresh rates. IPS panels tend to have richer colors and better viewing angles but you have a lot more IPS glow issues and other funky stuff coming with that tech. VA panels tend to be the best when it comes to colors and such but have worse response times and refresh rates. Just to name a few. For most people a modern TN panel is more than fine. Especially if you tend to mostly game on it.
