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Question

Asus VS247H-P overshoot/inverse ghosting issues

Aug 3, 2014 9:26AM PDT

(Monitor in question is here http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236174 , other valuable information to be placed at the bottom) So I was in the market for a new monitor a month ago and a friend reccomended the VS247H-P, I ordered it, and I've been using it the past couple of weeks. As time went on (especially while gaming) my eyes began to notice things that were off, things that weren't right. Little black trails following objects of certain colors against certain backgrounds, sometimes flat out black tinted dupes of things like light sources in grey tunnels while moving. Turning off my trace free setting fixed this, but not without its own very large amount of ghosting. A quick google search led me to overdrive being the culprit, which is controlled by the trace free slider. But I couldn't find any help with my monitor, and pushing around the trace free slider to any value but 0 only seems to change the range of colors this will happen on, not the severity (well, severity goes up around 60 I guess). So I just put it at 40 instead of 60 and tried to go on for the past week.

This is my first time ever experiencing issues like this with a monitor, but what should I do. I have a friend who owns this same monitor but says he either doesn't notice or doesn't have the issues, and personally I need this monitor for doing work I have to get to nearly as much as gaming. If anyone else has owned this monitor what do you think? I'd really rather not have to RMA it, but I am willing to cash in the warranty or RMA and buy a new one if it's flat out my monitor being the issue (though to be frank I doubt it since overdrive is just going to be overdrive it seems and I doubt that would vary between two monitors of the same model). Should I just get used to it, or is something genuinely wrong with my monitor. It's not particularly intrusive or anything, but it certainly bugs me out. I would just get rid of it, but it makes the picture so smooth and well, free of ghosting. Is this one of those tradeoffs that are so common in the computer world where you have to trade your ghosting for a bit of overshoot? It's certainly noticeable, especially depending on the game and how fast things are moving and what colors you're dealing with.

As promised at the top, additional specs for reference.

GPU: R9 270X
Resolution: 1920x1080
Refresh rate: 60 hz
Connection used: DVI-D

I also ordered off of amazon, not newegg, for the sake of a 20 dollar rebate. If where I ordered from is important info.

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I'd find and head to ATI support forums.
Aug 4, 2014 1:50AM PDT

This sounds like either a display or video card problem but it's unclear to me which. However I have been swapping ATI to Nvidia or Nvidia to ATI when such things happen to avoid losing weeks trying drivers and more.
Some have that time to put in.
Bob

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The problem is connected to two settings on my monitor
Aug 4, 2014 3:00PM PDT

Two settings on my monitor directly change the level and type of problem, and common internet knowledge will pretty much tell you that it's inverse ghosting caused by monitor overdrive. My real question is (and a lot of this is directed at other asus monitor owners) should I deal with the overdrive or can I do better.

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The thing is
Aug 4, 2014 3:07PM PDT

On HDMI and DVI-D (digital) there is no overdrive as we had with VGA (analog) so if the display is done for, it's done for. I think you know it's that or the video card.
Bob