Return on the Evnia 49M2C8900 / Help to config
Hi everyone!
I’ve had the 49M2C8900 (240Hz version) for almost a year now, and for the past year there have been so many issues driving me crazy for a monitor at this price.
First, my setup:
Mac Mini M1 → USB-C (main PC)
Gaming rig → DisplayPort (mostly when I play)
Things that drive me insane:
- Sleep mode doesn’t trigger automatic pixel cleaning. I’ve lost count of how many times I get the message saying I’ve been using the screen for 4–6–8+ hours and need to clean it, even though I just sat down at my desk for the first hour of the day.
- KVM is basically unusable. This seems specifically related to using my Mac over USB-C, but if I connect USB-B to my gaming PC at the same time as USB-C to my Mac, I can’t use any of the USB ports on either device. The only fix is unplugging USB-C, then unplugging the monitor from power, then plugging power back in. And for some reason, this completely breaks Ambiglow (disabled in settings), making it useless.
- Ambiglow (while we’re at it) I’ll be honest, I used to think it was a gimmick on TVs, then I bought an OLED Ambilight TV… now I can’t live without it. That’s why I chose this monitor brand. Well, I shouldn’t have. It’s inconsistent, but most of the time the colors are washed out (even worse with HDR). The only decent mode is static, just to avoid getting flashbanged in real life while playing CS in the dark.
PS: For anyone who just wants good visuals, I managed something much better than stock by enabling Dynamic Lighting in Windows 11 and installing SignalRGB.
The only downside is added latency and a noticeable FPS drop in competitive games.
- The internal software and PC software This is honestly the worst part.
First, the monitor interface looks like those old 4:3 Dell screens from school… great when you’ve paid €1000 for a monitor while Samsung, for example, has a much better UI.
Then there’s Evnia Precision Center… it’s terribly coded. Half the time I change a setting, it “updates” for 30 seconds but nothing actually applies. On top of that, it’s only available on Mac, which makes firmware updates a pain since I have to go through the same process as the KVM workaround on my PC.
And even worse, there’s zero transparency from Evnia/Philips about firmware versions. Without the software, you can’t even see your FW version. No changelogs online, no real way to report bugs… just nothing.
Most of the issues I mentioned, I’ve just been living with since I got the monitor. But there’s so much wasted potential, especially for a screen this size.
A simple example: you can resize the screen to crop the image cleanly, and you can use Picture-by-Picture… but you can’t use both at the same time. So you can’t, for example, play in 21:9 and have a video/map/chat/etc. on the side in the black area.
Finally, to wrap this up: I recently tried to configure the monitor so pixel refresh would run automatically. But even after rolling back my changes in macOS and on the monitor, I can no longer wake the display from sleep just by waking the Mac. Now I have to manually turn the monitor on every time (and it still doesn’t clean itself anyway…).
So if anyone has suggestions, I’m all ears. Right now I’m just constantly annoyed with it, and it honestly makes me want to go buy an Odyssey G9—which, by the way, also has RGB lighting.
Thanks for reading :)