Dang, I was hoping that was the issue since it's so easy to fix haha. May I ask what monitor you have just out of curiousity? I guess the other thing I would mention is potentially the Overdrive settings being weird, if it's too low it'll look smeary and if it's too high... well it's smeary, but "reversed" compared to low. Sorry it isn't working/noticeable for you though, it is great when it's present.

[–] leave_it_blank@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the Gigabyte M32U. It's a good monitor, like I said it's just me, some people just seem to not profit from it. It is a bit better than 60 Hz, but it's not the big difference to me compared to 60.

I followed and tried many things from here: https://pcmonitors.info/reviews/gigabyte-m32u/, including overdrive. I bought a new cable, tinkered with the settings, both monitor and driver, it's just me :) maybe it has to do with age!

[–] QueriesQueried@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a chance you might not notice it for sure, though most can tell immediately when they get put in front of a standard 60hz display. It might be worth a look at the UFO test for both your eyes and monitor. It should be very noticeable if your eyes are doing the tricking, or the monitor isn't performing correctly on that site. If you have a newer phone that has a 90hz+ display, you can also use that as a sanity check.

I haven't heard of that site before and their writing seems... odd. Theres still a couple things that it could be, though they get more funky. It could be that FRC is enabled on the monitor, which on some caused issues with high refresh rate, or adaptive sync (gsync/freesync). It could also (still, if you're unlucky) be the cable, or port on your GPU, or the GPU itself if it doesn't support Display Stream Compression if it's too old. There's also a chance that the GPU straight up can't do 4k while your settings are set to 120hz, or vice versa, or even more fun, it might claim to be doing one of those, while doing neither (or just one, but saying it is doing both/neither). Monitor issues are the worst lol.

Anyways, sorry if I couldn't help. I'm certain there's a pretty good chance it is not your eyes, but between Windows... being as it is, and monitors being notoriously annoying to diagnose, it's not a fun one to track down.

[–] leave_it_blank@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The monitor is working, like I said there is a difference to 60 Hz, it's just not that big of a deal as I was expecting it to be. I don't feel missing out when playing on my old 60 Hz. When I run the UFO test it's visible it's working, and the games I usually play reach high frame rates. I used the cable that came with the monitor and got a new one (primarily because the original cable was a bit too short), it's on me.

But don't get me wrong. The workspace alone was worth the upgrade, so I'm not depressed or something like that. And I have fun playing my games, and that's what matters.

Thank you for your tips, I really appreciate it!!!