u/Aceybabyyy

I am one of the several users that have been reporting significant edge dimming / colour saturation loss on the edges of the AW3926DW.

However, I think I may have stumbled across a fix.

I pressed Win + Ctrl + Shift + B to reset my graphics card drivers - my panel then flashed, and popped back up with nearly perfect uniformity with minimal dimming, even after a further 20 minutes of use (in games and browsing).

If it truly is a computer/GPU driver issue causing the panel dimming, that would explain why the dimming is not present when running the onboard panel tests from the monitor OSD. I am not technically savvy enough to understand why this might be happening, but maybe one of you may know?

The only other setting I changed tonight was increasing the brightness to 90.

My full settings are: SDR, Creator Mode, 90 Brightness 75 Contrast, DSC and DV off.

Specs are a 5080 with 9800x3d, with graphics card drivers fully up to date.

Can other users of the panel reporting the same issue please attempt this and report whether it fixes it for them?

(Apologies for formatting - this was prepared on mobile).

TLDR: The new AW3926DW set to gamma 2.2 on Creator Preset appears to have the same issue as the AW3225QF and AW2725 which results in raised blacks and washed out colours, due to the gamma being calibrated to SRGB gamma rather than true 2.2. ICC profile to fix is in the below linked post. I am using the AW27 version of the ICC profile and confirm this works for me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OLED_Gaming/comments/1ewwve1/alienware_32_27_qdoled_srgb_gamma_22_fix_icc/?logging_in=true

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I was one of the lucky Australians to get the new AW3926DW this week. I've had quite a few alienware monitors in the past and am someone that always uses the ‘Creator - SRGB’ mode because I don’t like oversaturated colours. But, on this monitor, the whole week I couldn’t help but notice raised blacks and washed out colours. It has been driving me crazy and I was nearly considering returning it.

However, after realising it was a gamma issue, I started searching and came across multiple threads which reported the same issues for some of Alienware’s previous monitors due to gamma being calibrated to SRGB gamma in creator mode rather than true 2.2 gamma. Sure enough, after testing one of the ICC profiles in the below reddit post, the issue was fixed straight away:

I hope this helps anyone else struggling with this problem - and the person that made the ICC profile is an absolute legend! Dell should really release firmware so that we can fix this on a hardware level, similar to how I understand ASUS deal with it...