After much deliberation I finally decided to take the plunge and opt for a 120Hz panel over an IPS. The monitor arrived and had zero dead pixels, and with some tweaking, decent colors - but I just cannot get the whites looking right. They're very washed out, to the point that the Lagom LCD test for white saturation fades out at about the 248 mark (maybe 249), but the entire bottom row is pure white. I've looked at profiles from Prad.de, TFT Central, and even a few user profiles, but they all suffer the same problem. Currently I'm running Standard mode, 2 Brightness, 25 Contrast, Gamma 4, Color temp Normal which is about the best I can get it to look, but it's still very washed out. Interestingly enough the profiles from Prad and TFT Central were worse (Standard mode, 5 Bright, 50 Contrast, Gamma 1/2, ~R96/~G99/~B95), they pushed back the white saturation test to around 247 as end visibility.
Does anyone else have this problem? Or has anyone else used the Lagom LCD test to help ensure their monitor is displaying things fairly appropriately? Granted I'd rather have the superior black levels (which this monitor does have compared to my old T220) for gaming over the white levels, but I'd still like to get them better if possible. Is there some goofy setting I missed, like some sort of backlight overdrive? Is this just a common problem that I haven't heard about somehow? Any advice would be appreciated here. I have tried turning down my contrast to zero and setting the color temperatures way down in the 50's and even 30's, but nothing can make that bottom row visible.
120Hz is awesome by the by. Reminds me of how smooth games were back in my Quake II/AvP/UT days on my CRT.
Does anyone else have this problem? Or has anyone else used the Lagom LCD test to help ensure their monitor is displaying things fairly appropriately? Granted I'd rather have the superior black levels (which this monitor does have compared to my old T220) for gaming over the white levels, but I'd still like to get them better if possible. Is there some goofy setting I missed, like some sort of backlight overdrive? Is this just a common problem that I haven't heard about somehow? Any advice would be appreciated here. I have tried turning down my contrast to zero and setting the color temperatures way down in the 50's and even 30's, but nothing can make that bottom row visible.
120Hz is awesome by the by. Reminds me of how smooth games were back in my Quake II/AvP/UT days on my CRT.
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