Hello, I am long term Overwatch player and i have noticed that the UI ultimate charge has started to burn into my screen LG OLED screen… i play overwatch an hour or a 2 a day and this is becoming a bit of a frustration.
Is it possible to have some UI options to avoid these issues on expensive OLED screens?
- UI transparency
- UI Shift by a few pixel from match to match
- UI color saturation decrease
Any of the above would help, but as OLEDs are becoming more and more prominent and actually are in multiple handhelds ( Steam deck, Switch etc…) this has to become more of a priority…
burn in is still a thing? i thought all that was done away with when plasmas went away…
my LED’s never have burned in…is this something specific to OLED?
yes pretty much it’s come back since the introduction of OLEDs and pretty much inevitable… My OLED is 5 years OLD at this point and this is the only game that has caused burn in… most other games i play i am able to hide or increase transparency on the UI
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OLEDS burn in like crazy. The good ones use pixel shfiting to reduce this.
Do you have other burn in on the panel besides from OW? 5 years is a pretty old generation of OLED panel tech at this point.
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it’s something specific to OLED, especially old/cheap/both OLED screens
so much that there is “Gen 3” type of protection against burn-in, that’s how complicated it is.
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You have to be using your OLED a LOT to actually get burn in. If it’s a really old panel it’s to be expected, oled as a technology has matured a lot since it’s general inception
What monitor specifically? The current gen OLED’s have multiple mitigation features like pixel shift and panel refresh
I have the 360hz 1440p Alienware OLED and burn in is covered for 3 years under their warranty
5 years? 
im still using a 55" vizio i bought in 2015 lol (for my tv that is)
Yeah but is it OLED? Normal LCD panels dont burn in, and will last way longer.
no, its an LED i was just commenting on saying a 5 year old display is considered “old”…my TV is almost 10 years old…lol
Oh what I meant is OLED burn in protection technology has been improving drastically with each generation. OLED monitors are still relatively new, so 5 years old would be considered really old tech at this point, so it probably has poor burn in protection compared to modern panels.
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it’s the LG C9 … it’s not really old tech, i don’t think its much different than what we have today… though it’s hard to test untill the new gen has been there for a while.
There were tests on the switch OLED and it does burn in
How many hours does it have in it?
I am using an LG C9 and i play a ton of games on it… OW is the only one that has caused burn-in … i ran a couple of refresh cycles and it’s barely visible anymore … i can probably remove it with one more cycle … but these cycles literally burn in the rest of the pixels to match the burned in ones… not the best solution.
How old is it is my more pressing question
LG C9 … bought around the black friday of the release year… so 4.5 years … 5 years
Oh ok. If an oled didn’t have burn in after 5 years i’d be very surprised lol
There’s a setting in there that tells you screen hours. What’s that say? Do you have logo protection in? Do you have screen shift on? What brightness are you set on?
This is a little odd with normal use
Not sure where to find the Number of Hours in the LG C9 … i do have the pixel shift and the logo luminance on… but i think the logo luminance only works with very static logos… the overwatch UI moves a lot especially the ultimate is not static at all.
The older TV models have much worse burn in protection than the newer monitors do. They were designed for TV/media consumption to they are not really expected to display a lot of static content. I recall reviews of those a while back from places like LTT indicating they got burn in rather quickly when being used as desktop monitors, and you had to make sure to run the image cleaning manually.