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X35 flickering(Acer X35 monitor)
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There is says
"Or you can wait until later this year when a downloadable utility tool will be available to update your monitor’s firmware yourself."
But I cannot find any more info than this.
I think Ive seen the hopefully true source.
Asus are saying they have found the root of the issue and will bring out firmware update end of 2019. -source is a direct communication to a user on twitter.
Manny,
Will Acer be able to do the same thing seeing as its the same panel and issue?
I would send my monitor in straight away if I knew the issue had been found and would be fixed...
Can you see any flicker? apart from it going brighter or less brighter with my camera.
http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHSlJhUAv5E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHSlJhUAv5E
The flickering on my one is no issue at all. Really not. Same goes for the fan noise. I can hear it next to my silent PC. Im sure I will return the screen anyways because what really bothers me are the very weak response times in dark/grey areas. It may be good for a VA panel but comming from an excellent and fast IPS panel that really bugs me out. Its even annoying for me in non multiplayer games.
The HDR experience is really amazing. Playing on widescreen is amazing also. The screen itself looks very cool. I would love to keep it but it seems that those low response times in grey and black areas are killing it for me. When the screen displays a rather white image with a light background everything is fine but you do notice the low response times in all games which have a rather dark background: for example when its night time in a role play or when there is a lot of shade etc. you get what im saying.
But considering the very high price it is not worth it for me. If that screen was an IPS panel it would be a dream. Also I have to mention..even though the fan is no problem for me, of course I can hear it a little bit. I dont know what will happen in 2 or 3 years when the fan is kinda dusty and Im scared it will be louder then, since we cannot open the case an clean it or even change the fan when it breaks.
TLDR: for me personally UNFORTUNATELY too many negatives to actually keep the monitor for that money. Again: the flickering on my sample is very very low!
Does anybody know if there is something similar planed in the future without being a VA panel?
The thing is why should I send the monitor in 40 pounds per pop 4 times to get a monitor that works as advertised?
what you show in that video, some people call "flickering". it does work as intended. If you use it @200Hz, the blacks are always 9 frames behind all the rest of the brighter colors. The black-to-grey transition times fit only in the 23Hz frame time.
The more you increase the refresh rate above 23Hz, the more black smearing and ghosting you will have.
This is not a high refresh rate panel. Not for dynamic content at least.
This monitor makes sense only if you use it to watch 30fps movies or for static content like a very expensive digital picture frame.
Unfortunately, I can't confirm and don't have access to any other information that is not from Acer. From our end, we are still waiting on a response to provide you with updates on this matter.
Thanks you,
Acer-Manny
Seems like the black pixels must be driven by a different, more aggressive overdrive pulse than the bright pixels. And that requires a lot of extra processing.
It would have been easier to stick with IPS like the PG27 or X27
Tinkerer
The only thing I can reproduce is the snow image. My games appear to be fine and I tested on several different settings
I returned my monitor today for the exact same reason. Im disapointed to say the least.
Tinkerer
Tinkerer
Tinkerer
Finally ended up getting my X35 the other day and had a chance to test the monitor for the flickering issues in game as well as some images. The videos I recorded are done with the monitor set to the calibration from https://pcmonitors.info/reviews/acer-x35/. I left overdrive on normal and used HDR on during my tests *422 and 444*. however; during testing HDR shows as on when in RGB color format but was not on so that might be a bug. G-sync and HDR did not impact image in games at all to cause flickering so I skipped making a bunch more videos to save on time. I left overdrive on normal since off and extreme causes noticeable overshoot. With some videos out there showing the flicker in games I decided I would try to make my own videos showing the monitor I have compared to the other videos. I do not have gears 5 or Resident Evil so I am not able to make videos for those games.
Monitor Mfg Date: Aug. 2019
Witcher 3
Sample video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_okde8DpT6c
Trees:
Sample videos:
RGB- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d9hl2avMmU
YCbCr422- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h1TwmCRoH8
YCbCr444- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3iKgf1d-2U
Division 2
Sample videos:
RGB- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4Z8spLBZro
YCbCr422- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tBShffQJ2I
YCbCr444- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP0RlDA2dX8
Snow image:
Sample videos:
RGB- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Yl6uukSHM8
YCbCr422- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW39QyAosjY
YCbCr444- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XN2o71wZD4
Overall in my testing so far it seems like my games are not having the flickering issue that others are showing in their videos. However; After changing the size of the village image I ended up getting the flicker that does go away if overdrive is turned off. I am going to continue doing testing when I have time. If anyone else has any suggestions after reading this post I would be more then happy to answer questions and try for additional videos.
Tinkerer