[edit-finally got it to an acceptable state, ty]
[EDIT AGAIN - MONITOR CONTINUES TO BE AN AGGRAVATING PAIN TRYING TO GET THE SETTINGS TO MY LIKING, IT’S GOING BACK.]
Ok, bizarre problem here…
(TL;DR - new monitor is great except one thing - there’s an ugly blueish tinged text blur/pixelation (text ghosting I guess you call it?) online whenever I scroll on any page with a white background.)
So I bought an ASUS VG278QR monitor.
The out of the box settings are horrendously atrocious and most every preset looks like utter dog crap. HOWEVER… I was able to set the monitor on ‘cinema’ setting and adjust a couple settings elsewhere and man oh mannnnn does WoW look sweet oh so sweet.
Everything is great - gaming, desktop, webpages. But on web pages with WHITE BACKGROUNDS whenever I SCROLL, the text turns to complete crap for the bit of time that I’m scrolling. As soon as I stop scrolling, the ugly text pixelation/blur returns to normal. WTH?
When I’m scrolling the wow forums, wowhead pages, any pages with darker backgrounds, it’s fine, no problems. When I’m scrolling on any page with white background, which most all websites use, I have this problem.
I can solve the text ghosting problem by working with another monitor preset besides ‘cinema’ but the problem is that every other preset, no matter how I work with it, looks really awful in comparison to how great things look with the ‘cinema’ preset.
You’re describing inverse ghosting.
It’s related to the “TraceFree” setting, which is used to reduce ghosting. If you use too aggressive of a setting, it will try to change colors very quickly but does it wrong.
Go into your settings of the display and try to reduce the setting by one step. If memory serves, TraceFree is 0-100 in increments of 20. Try to reduce it until the effect goes away.
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ty for replying!
I’ve tried every setting of ‘trace free’ and it doesn’t improve the problem. I’ve seen mentions of it while googling around about this, some ppl say reducing its setting helps certain problems, but it isn’t doing anything in this case.
In your display adapter setting in windows, what is the refresh rate set for the specific display?
Is it at 165hz, or 59.9hz or something else?
It’s at 165. Though I’ve tried it at various settings for curiosity to see if the problem persists and it does.
Do you have Vivid Pixel turned on? If so, try disabling that.
Review of the display:
The ASUS VG278Q input lag performance is on par with the gaming monitors professionals use as it amounts to around 4ms.
Moreover, the 1ms response time speed ensures a rapid pixel transition from one color to another, which eliminates ghosting/trailing and motion blur in fast-paced games.
You can also use the TraceFree (overdrive) feature to increase/decrease the response time though we wound it sufficient at the default setting (60); it ranges from 0 to 100 in 20 increments.
Alternatively, you can use ASUS Extreme Low Motion Blur (ELMB), which via backlight strobing further removes ghosting and trailing. You can set this feature at either 120Hz or 144Hz fixed refresh rate.
Note that the maximum brightness of the monitor is reduced when this feature is enabled, so use it only when playing fast-paced games – given that you like this type of motion handling.
Maybe try the ELMB on/off to see if that fixes it?
Not sure if it matters but that review is for the VG278Q 144 hz, while my monitor is the VG278QR 165 hz. They’re probably roughly the same, just thought I’d mention it.
Interesting thing about the ELMB setting is that it’s grayed out and can’t be adjusted on ANY preset. I don’t know anything about ELMB but whatever it is, it can’t be adjusted for whatever reason.
Oh and adjusting vivid pixel has no effect on the text ghosting.
Also… in the event I consider possibly returning this monitor and buying something else, as this problem is really annoying, I’m all ears for recommendations!
Hmm, I’m not sure. Do you have another cable you could try? Do you have some blue light filter on or something? Have you tried resetting everything to defaults?
I haven’t used a TN display in a while, but they are supposed to actually be pretty good at response times, ghosting, and that type of thing.
If you do happen to return it, be aware most VA panel types will be worse in this regard, and technically I think IPS will as well.
Ok I was on the verrrrrge of ordering something else with anticipation of sending this back and I guess the gods cut me a break because I was able to get it fairly sorted out.
I used the FPS preset and tweaked the settings in the monitor and also in Nvidia control panel and in WoW. It’s acceptable to me now and I’ve done away with the text ghosting problem.
I messed with the FPS preset before several times and couldn’t get it to my liking but I guess I hit on the right combination of shiz this time i dunno…
Jeezus what an aggravation this has been. I’m frazzled.
Thnx for going through it with me lol 
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I’VE HADDDDDDD IT WITH THIS MONITOR LOL I can’t stand it anymore, this thing is so aggravating it’s maddening. I just cannot get the settings quite to my liking and it’s beyond words frustrating. This thing is going back. I’ll take my chances on something else.)
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Some monitors can be really annoying in their lack of control this way, forcing you to fiddle around with presets to achieve a result that’s just “ok”. Really wish all monitors and TVs had a “full custom” mode that turns everything off and leaves it up to the user to configure.
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