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Opinion?
Aesthetically I wish it was all black instead of two-tone white and black. And also not really a fan of the curve but in gaming I think I kind of like it. I had to have 32 in and they're really no good LCD options as they all have either smearing, backlight bleed or IPS glow so OLED it is. Really quite sad that my nearly 5-year-old non-gaming 1440p IPS monitor looks better in many ways than any high-end LCD I've tried in the last few years.
You enablin’ HDR / Auto HDR in gaming or what, yet?
I have not fooled with HDR yet on this monitor. My past experience with HDR and Windows gaming has never been good so it's not really something I care about. I'll look into it later though.
You've got Win11 Pro and a native 10-bit color monitor. Honestly, I was so impressed with this monitor's ability to detect and switch color spaces automatically with HDR I just leave it on all the time. Just make sure you download the actual driver for the monitor vs using the default Windows driver, or else HDR400 True Black, HDR1000, and Dolby Vision settings aren't available and/or don't work. Try HDR400 True Black and turn on HDR in Windows. You might be surprised.
I don’t like HDR
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Wow. I never turn HDR off, lol.
But 60 is smearing the whole time? And you said you don't like smearing or motion blur rather from the slow frame rate. Why not run 144fps or 240 if the monitor can do it for clearer motion? After playing at 144, 60 is unusable to me.
I was referring to the dark level smearing that you get on typical VA panels. 60 fps is fine for the games I play. TBH I played Dead Space remake at 120 for a few minutes then went back to 60 fps and barely even noticed the difference. Years ago I noticed the difference a lot more and I understand that 60 would be rough for people that play high refresh rate all the time.
Tried HDR on every single OLED and Mini LED monitor that I owned before, it's horrible, colors look faded and washed out even after running the Windows Calibration tool from the Microsoft Store. Everytime I think let me give it a try, I watch some YouTube HDR videos and they look ok, but when I turn HDR OFF it's a whole new world of color vibrancy and saturation. As for the Windows desktop just sing a web browser, apps, etc, it's horrible. I don't know what's all this hype about HDR I have never seen anything worse in my life.
Just the resolution increase alone would make the text look better. Personally I do not see any issue at all with the text on the AW3225QF but on the 34" AW3423DWF it was noticeably worse.
Man. You guys weren't kidding. This thing is beautiful gaming and text. I have been using the LG 27 and 34" 1440p monitor, and the text is unbelievably horrendous.
Same here! I cannot get HDR to look right in games. I have tried everything. Another question - do you all use the Alienware Command Center?
Well if you have any Alienware product like a computer, keyboard, mouse, monitor, it would install itself automatically even if you uninstall it, it would keep reinstalling itself unfortunately. I only use it once to set the lights but that's about it.
Yes, it's a rather annoying "feature". It's always running a bunch of crap in the background and uses like 800MB of RAM.
Indeed! It is even more annoying when I connect my mouse briefly to another laptop to do a few things and within a few minutes I see the Alienware Command Center installed like what the heck, I just wanted to do a few things it's not even my computer.
Wait what? Did NOT know this.
Yeah it even does this through Windows update I believe.
I reckon can we even watch DV contents on this monitor. The mode was buggy as hell and borderline unusable even with firmware updates.
Which is why I stay awa from Alienware products as I bought a Razer Blade 16 and don't want any extra bloat
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