u/PhantomFoxZ

Never where I in love with a game's art style and visuals to this extent.

This is HW ON vs HW ON with Path Traced Hair

After owning this monitor for a good 2 months now here's my guide to the best Settings or ones you should consider.

SDR: sRGB mode with gamma /costume gamma fix because gigabyte uses a different gamma curve than 2.2 that looks bit lifted

download the srgb_to_gamma2p2 color profile, SDR version and use this profile for accurate sRGB mode gamma https://github.com/dylanraga/win11hdr-srgb-to-gamma2.2-icm

HDR: there are 2 configuration that you can use here

Peak 1000 with Hypernits High (don't use medium it's kinda buggy and clips at 1800 nits maybe gigabyte will fix it in the future), set Dark enhance to off and it should be clipping around 1020 nits in windows HDR app, this mode will look brighter than the usual peak 1000 mode that has panel dimming it applies lifted mid tones in high APL scenes and highlights in dark scenes to compensate for panel dimming but it comes with the trade off of bit of crush in highlights but it isn't that bad at all and dark scenes will be left untouched so there's no over brightening in dark scenes whatsoever plus it looks bit more vivid.

HDR with APL Stabilize set to HIGH: this one works differently and it still reaches 1000 nits too, in the HDR app it will clip at 530 nits or so (APL setting won't change that) but in small windows the monitor will push highlights to 1000 nits internally, unlike peak 1000 with hypernits it won't have bit of highlight overbrightening and will be just as bright as TB 500 mode but the trade off in lower APL scenes it will have over brightening especially in dark scenes so if shade is like 100 nits it will be 120 nits, not too bad imo, blacks will remain dark and it's not like it's gonna look washed out, just brighter.

I myself been using Peak 1000 Hypernits and found it good because the trade offs are not that many aside from bit of overbright highlights, honestly it's the best Peak 1000 Mode and as a tip turn down the contrast to 50-51 (HDR TB 500 is at 50) because by default it's set to 53 and the highlights overbrightening will be reduced by lowering it to the regular 50, the display guy seem to have set it up this way and praised it too.

I've been using HDR with ABL High on PS5 because hypernits doesn't work on consoles for some reason.

Try both of these configurations and decide for yourself, I think this chart from PC Monitor best settings video sums it up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdwZS7oWMic&t=1s

OLED CARE settings: pixle clean can be toggled every 4 hrs but it won't pop up so either toggle it manually or it will do it on its on after exactly 1hr of standby if you set start time delay at 0 mins

I set everything on aside from corner dimming at off and in SDR ABL Stabilize at low for uniformed brightness.

Also turn off Smart PD for more brightness and set LED indicator to always off because the white LED is annoying in standby, it will turn green whenever the monitor doing a pixel clean.

MO32U24 with black shield vs Samsung G60SD

The pictures with MO32U24 are in a significantly more litt room as you can see because I wanted to show the worst scenario plus glossy is superior, in a room

I think my Samsung monitor was 50-40 brightness and the gigabyte is also set 40%, no purple tint that effects the colors and it looks brighter while using the same brightness level.

in a normal room with no blasting sun lighting aka your average lit room it's pretty much black

Next to a true black glossy woled in a lit room https://i.imgur.com/BJn0ppi.jpeg

Decided to play this and they just updated the ray reconstruction to 4.5 and my goodness does this game look amazing on 4k OLED.

Edit: to all of the triggerd individuals because I took pic with my camera, I wanted to show how it properly look on an OLED monitor with decent HDR and proper contrast.

It is recommended to touch grass if a picture gets you that upset.

Can’t describe how pleasing this looks irl, got the Gigabyte MO32U24 this month and I’m having blast playing on it. Colors are bright and really pop in this game and in combination Penta Tandem it's simply amazing.

This game is truly a piece of art!

(Using Peak 1000 with hypernits on high if anyone interested in the settings)

Just got my first Tandem WOLED and here’s before and after 1st pixel clean

DSE doesn’t seem to be that bad on this unit

Jokes aside this post is only for fun since this subreddit has become the home of grey uniformity test pictures, people are posting pictures of grey tests more than their actual feedback or tips, it’s getting ridiculous!

I wanted to upgrade to OLED 4K 32 inch so I tried the xg32ucwmg and switched to LG 32GX850A-B because the asus had a very bad ABL implementation and now I got the MO32U24 Penta Tandem QD OLED and sold off the LG monitor even tho I really liked it despite its weaknesses, here are the main reasons why I went with the new gen of QD OLED:

Color Banding on WOLED

WOLED

QD OLED

I rarely see people talk about this but whenever there's a dark scene with lights or colors on WOLED (even tandem WOLED) the color banding is striking and noticeable to my eyes I really tried to accept and cope but I noticed even in Spider man in sky at night, maybe I'm nit picky but I couldn't ignore it in some areas, QD OLED in comparison is miles better at handling color banding and I imagine the new Tandem RGB WOLED too.

Greys and shadows

WOLED SDR

QD OLED SDR

WOLED

QD OLED

Grey banding wasn't the worst on my WOLED panel but where there are games that have too much grey because the creator the game intended for the game to look this way, you can notice it a lot and when I got the QD OLED I was shocked by how perfect uniformity looks on this thing.

Color Volume and Color Brightness:

WOLED

QD OLED

WOLED

QD OLED

I remember after getting the MLA WOLED feeling like the colors were bit underwhelming that I had to bring saturation bit up to bring it to my liking, color volume in HDR is definitely noticeable and I can feel how white sub-pixel is doing the heavy lifting to bring brightness up at the cost of colors washing them a bit.

don't get me wrong the MLA panel didn't look bad by any means but in comparison to MO32U24 the color volume and brightness difference was there.

High peak Brightness mode:

Chinese reviewer showing EOTF Curve with 1000 peak brightness hypernits mode : https://i.imgur.com/Wzbf1y7.png which look surprisingly good in comparison to other qd oled monitors with their eotf boost options.

Gigabyte has a new method for the panel dimming on their new QD OLED caled hypernits, what I like most about it that it doesn't make the picture washed by lifting shadows and ruining dark scenes, dark stay dark, it targets only a part of the EOTF that kicks only in really high APL scenes where the screen dims like in a desert or a very sunny days but it causes a little overblown effect in stuff like the sun gets bigger or over brightened highlights but nothing too noticeable that ruins the scene, actually it's behaves the same way of WOLEDs in their high peak brightness modes when it comes to bit overblown highlights.

WOLED

QD OLED

Hypernits OFF and Hypernits ON for reference sometimes it seems like it's not working and sometimes you do notice some difference depending on the scene but TB 500 still looks brighter it's just that the peak mode doesn't look as dim as before and it's pretty usable and bright in daytime on this model.

Coating

LEFT QD BLACK SHILED RIGHT WOELD TB GLOSSY at max lighting in my room

Normal lighting condition

The picture above taken with my Govee ceiling light cranked up to the absolute maximum to show the worst case scenario which is not what I usually do, when I set it to 50% both of them look pitch black which is a big win for QD since I hated their awful coating and raised blacks on 3d gen and before anyone comes and posts a picture from a youtuber with a 300w studio light projector saying that qd looks grey or purple just save it and look at my normal room. That being said I still prefer True Black Glossy on WOLED.

Texts are pretty sharp and both Monitors due to 4K res but I feel the QD panel felt tiny better in dark mode because it doesn't have dirty screen effect but I'd be fine with both.

Anyway I didn't wanna crap on WOLED as this comparison is my observation after having both monitors for a while. I'm not a fanboy of either, I use Pneta Tandem QD OLED as my main monitor and an LG WOLED TV in my living room and I absolutely love both :)

Idk why but my monitor was perfectly fine before the 1st pixel clean and after doing the 1st one I immediately noticed the gamma raise in both hdr and sdr? Is there anyway to solve this or get it back where it was and why would a pixel clean change the gamma?

The first 3 squares seem hard to distinguish, idk if this is raised gamma or normal?

it happened after the first pixel clean

My MO32U24 just arrived and omg this thing is on another level in comparison to the last QD OLED I got (g60sd), anyways here’s a comparison between the LG 32GX850A with its True Black Glossy coating (basically like the xg32ucwmg) and the new QD OLED Coating that reduces the purple tint with my Govee ceiling light turned all the way to 100% which I rarely use at the max brightness, last picture in my ideal brightness level (50%).

I’ll drop a review here later talking how it compares to the WOLED MLA panel and how it solves my main issues like the purple black levels and the atrocious QD OLED dimming from last gen with its hypernits setting that doesn’t ruin the image like msi's eotf boost that lifts the shadows plus the panel is brighter technically so combined with hypernits mode it results in a amazing performance for an OLED Monitor.

I noticed in this area this weird exposure thing happening idk if it’s how my monitor handles tone mapping or the game itself doing this

I only noticed it in this area tho

this keeps showing and I can't open the app without vpn and I tried every firewall solution but can't seem to fix it

I deleted it and reinstalled and still no chance and even with vpn I can't load effects other than the installed ones

the Alienware 34 280 Hz Penta Tandem QD OLED-AW3426DW with RGB Stripe was just released where I live and I can get it for like 750 euros (corporate benefits gives me 8% discount), I wanna pull the trigger really bad but idk if I'm gonna regret it or not
currently using the tandem asus 27 inch and I'm within the return window (I got for 560 euros) but I'm looking for a bigger size without compromising so much performance.
Will competitive gaming still be an option?
Is it bright enough in comparison to the tandem oleds?
Compatibility issues in older games and if so are there mods to fix it?
what's up with the rgo stripe is it only just better text?