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11 hours ago, HarryBizzle said:

Metroid looks ridiculously good on Steam Deck via Yuzu. Running the docked (1080p) mode on the Deck's 720p screen is so clean and crisp.

You should see it running on Switch OLED at 60fps, night and day, even with lower resolution (think it’s 640p undocked).

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On 01/02/2023 at 09:54, Uzi said:

Nah on a extra large dining table being used as a desk with a 90cm depth. This is the 48C1 on the depth. I tend to like bigger screens so a 55 was perfectly acceptable so I gave my 48 to my wife as her work monitor lol. I have pic somewhere but essentially we have the 55 and 48 on the same desk side by side as its a dedicated office/gaming room

 

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Inspired by this, and much to my wife's chagrin, I've spent the last two days completely changing my gaming room around. I got a new desk, hooked up a 5.1 speaker system and moved my 55" OLED from one wall to another, which I'm now using it as my monitor:

 

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It's awesome - the pictures don't do it justice. And, as Uzi says, you get used to the 55" screen very quickly. I'm going to mount the front speakers on the wall and fanny about with the cables a bit more, but for now I'm very happy 😃

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11 minutes ago, Lying Cat said:

@Jamie John That looks rad. What desk is that? Currently I've got a fairly wide, shallow desk and if I'm going ever move into having an OLED like that, I need something with a bit more (fnark) depth.

 

Thanks! It's an IKEA jobbie - £150, which I didn't think was too bad, and it's very sturdy. Comes with a cable tidy net thing as well, and it's deep enough that I've taken the legs off my TV unit and slid it underneath towards the rear wall but still have lots of room for my feet.

 

I got the computer tower trolley thing from them as well (my PC is sat on it to the right of the desk, but you can't see it in the pic).

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38 minutes ago, Jamie John said:

 

Inspired by this, and much to my wife's chagrin, I've spent the last two days completely changing my gaming room around. I got a new desk, hooked up a 5.1 speaker system and moved my 55" OLED from one wall to another, which I'm now using it as my monitor:

 

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It's awesome - the pictures don't do it justice. And, as Uzi says, you get used to the 55" screen very quickly. I'm going to mount the front speakers on the wall and fanny about with the cables a bit more, but for now I'm very happy 😃

Beautiful 

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Some OLED as monitor longevity tips

 

Set your windows taskbar to vanish when you're not using it

 

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If you don't mind giving up aesthetics, keep your windows background plain black. Keeps any oled lighting off and can confuse you if you're screen is on or not

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1 minute ago, stir fry said:

My 48CX has chrome burned into it lol. I'm not really sure I'll be as eager to use one for PC use tbh, the babying is a bit much imo and makes it not satisfying to use

That must have taken some abuse!

 

I used my PC on a C9 since around the time they can't out and its fine but then I didn't leave the taskbar running on it and I had a screensaver set to run after a few mins of inactivity. All very easy and straightforwards, takes no effort but avoids a colourful chrome symbol etc being permanently on your desktop. It's an dodgy as leaving the same channel running forever with the colourful logo in the corner

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For my Oled my desktop is pure black with zero icons on it. I hide the taskbar and I have the screen saver set to come on after 2 minutes of no activity, in fact if I know I'm stepping away from the PC for more than 5 minutes I simply put the screen into standby with the remote.

 

I also tend to use dark themes for websites and browsers but that is more down to personal preference. I'm pretty sure even if I do get burn in after a few years I'll probably just buy another Oled anyway because they look so damn good!

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9 minutes ago, Uzi said:

That must have taken some abuse!

 

I used my PC on a C9 since around the time they can't out and its fine but then I didn't leave the taskbar running on it and I had a screensaver set to run after a few mins of inactivity. All very easy and straightforwards, takes no effort but avoids a colourful chrome symbol etc being permanently on your desktop. It's an dodgy as leaving the same channel running forever with the colourful logo in the corner

 

It's not the taskbar, it's the address bar. I also do all the things with dark mode, black background, autohide etc, as well as all the other tv settings. But managing address bar burn in is a bit harder without making the tv extremely annoying to use (full screen browser is not very usable imo)

 

that said yea it's seen tons more usage than most people will throw at these things due to WFH. But for me personally after that I don't consider them very good for productivity purposes, too fragile imo

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5 minutes ago, stir fry said:

 

It's not the taskbar, it's the address bar. I also do all the things with dark mode, black background, autohide etc, as well as all the other tv settings. But managing address bar burn in is a bit harder without making the tv extremely annoying to use (full screen browser is not very usable imo)

 

that said yea it's seen tons more usage than most people will throw at these things due to WFH. But for me personally after that I don't consider them very good for productivity purposes, too fragile imo

Ah fair. My work laptop is plugged into my mine seems ok so far. I'm always switching between outlook/word/browser/excel/adobe a lot of the day so plenty of screen movement but yeah if you're constantly in one program could be dodgy

 

11 minutes ago, Adrock said:

@Len, until you've actually installed the 4090 you purchased 6 months ago you're banned from posting in here.

What? He hasn't INSTALLED it? Need a new case?

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I'm well over a year into using a C1 as my primary display (I have a Dell U3014 in portrait mode as well, it's really good for Outlook :lol: ) and have zero image retention dispite having some very static display elements on screen for at least 8 hours a day.

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1 hour ago, Jamie John said:

 

Inspired by this, and much to my wife's chagrin, I've spent the last two days completely changing my gaming room around. I got a new desk, hooked up a 5.1 speaker system and moved my 55" OLED from one wall to another, which I'm now using it as my monitor:

 

PXL_20230213_162632853.thumb.jpg.779ab066f2bc281639569373e8e82dc0.jpg

 

PXL_20230213_165801886.thumb.jpg.10591a3c1109f777bf94580372eaeabe.jpg

 

It's awesome - the pictures don't do it justice. And, as Uzi says, you get used to the 55" screen very quickly. I'm going to mount the front speakers on the wall and fanny about with the cables a bit more, but for now I'm very happy 😃


Impressive, very nice. Let’s see Paul Allen’s desktop. 

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1 hour ago, Uzi said:

What? He hasn't INSTALLED it? Need a new case?

 

I know, I know.

 

My list of excuses includes (but not exclusively to) travelling over Xmas period so put pc upgrade on hold which it was for. A slight worry over my 10 year old current psu not being a happy bunny with it but should in theory be ok and the case. The main one being I'm a completely lazy b@stard though and once I've switched it on for work in the morning I'm done by late evening. 4090FE are still as rare as hen's teeth over here.

 

Oh and @Adrock making me play Tarkov all the time so can't fit it in. Ahem.

 

Ok, ok I'll do it soon I promise... ;)

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There's probably a better thread for this, but I thought I'd just ask here: what's the best way to calibrate your HDR settings in Windows if you're using a HDR-enabled monitor or TV with your PC?

 

At the moment, I've got Auto HDR turned on and I've got the 'SDR Content Brightness' slider to half-way:

 

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I've found, however, that the brightness of my screen tends to change automatically if I'm lingering on the same screen for a long time, like if I'm writing a post on the forum, for example, using the dark theme, the screen will gradually get dimmer and dimmer until I go to a different screen and it suddenly gets brighter again. It's as if I've got an auto-brightness setting turned on somewhere, but I don't, apart from the Auto HDR, but Windows says that's only for games. Is it lying?

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5 minutes ago, Jamie John said:

There's probably a better thread for this, but I thought I'd just ask here: what's the best way to calibrate your HDR settings in Windows if you're using a HDR-enabled monitor or TV with your PC?

 

At the moment, I've got Auto HDR turned on and I've got the 'SDR Content Brightness' slider to half-way:

 

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I've found, however, that the brightness of my screen tends to change automatically if I'm lingering on the same screen for a long time, like if I'm writing a post on the forum, for example, using the dark theme, the screen will gradually get dimmer and dimmer until I go to a different screen and it suddenly gets brighter again. It's as if I've got an auto-brightness setting turned on somewhere, but I don't, apart from the Auto HDR, but Windows says that's only for games. Is it lying?

Use the official HDR calibration app available from the store.

https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/windows-hdr-calibration/9N7F2SM5D1LR

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37 minutes ago, Jamie John said:

. the brightness of my screen tends to change automatically if I'm lingering on the same screen


local dimming does something like this on my tv, dunno if your tv has similar. If its an oled it wont have it.

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