screen burn in

[CultistOwl]

i left it going during dinner and when i came back to play a different steam game with a friend, it had the screen slightly burned in to the monitor. is there anything that should be done to prevent this or things to do on my end for it?

[Shiroe (cortana)]

https://www.mobilepixels.us/pages/do-computer-monitors-get-screen-burn-in
https://www.lifewire.com/fix-screen-burn-in-4178041

Just google it, several posts about it but most are mostly the same tho.

If that doesnt help, buy a new monitor..
Heck, last time i heard about burn in images on a screen was on crt and plasma tv's which is decades old..

[CultistOwl]

i have seen those channels but they basically said dont do it
my question is more what can be done in the game to prevent it from happening

[Shiroe (cortana)]

Originally posted by CultistOwl:

i have seen those channels but they basically said dont do it
my question is more what can be done in the game to prevent it from happening

nothing else can be done.
Its not a game's fault, or kind off, the dev could have used different other colour combos and maybe more movements so to speak..
Its when colours are static without any changes for several hours/days a burn in will happen.

Otherwise Its a user/monitor problem

The only way is to get a better monitor.
Play less of the same game per hours/days,
Let the game run in the background without the game window actually showing up on the monitor and only check in from time to time.

Like me, i have the game running but watching a movie, or even playing other games in the meantime.


Maybe a different skin might help but i wouldnt bet on that.

[Dwane Dibbley]

Never had this problem on phones. But i never hed OLED screen where this probably might be a thing and also running pretty low brightness (like 15%).

So do you have OLED screen?

[CultistOwl]

i believe i have lcd but maybe oled
made my computer 3 years ago and dont really remember what parts i have
ill just remember that anytime i leave it going i should tab out and try not to let the main page be on too much
i believe the issue was from it shifting the text during the later part of my first eternity, since the prestiges and promotes made the text formatting jump so quickly

[Deathman.Kenshi]

Originally posted by CultistOwl:

i have seen those channels but they basically said dont do it
my question is more what can be done in the game to prevent it from happening

Its problem with first and 2nd gen of LED displays they tend to burn in very fast with static image check if your TV/Monitor have game or anti burn mode and enable it it maxes shift image very slightly on screen to avoid burn in you will not even notice it and it helps immensely (If it do not have that function than you will get burn in eventually from anything with high contrast hud if playing long enough and can either use anti burn function or just find whole screen static noise video on youtube to aleviate it)

[Twy]

What kind of screen do you even have...? And how old is it?

I've heard plasma is bad, but LCDs should last for forever and most decent OLED monitors should last perfectly fine. And if this game got burn in over just a couple hours then I don't see what would be saving your monitor from every other static image left by a UI element from taskbars to browser titlebars to healthbars and other UI elements in games.

Beyond having a dark background with light color highlights, which may try and push HDR on an OLED, I'm rather confused how this even could have happened.

Though if you ARE using an OLED monitor I would suggest switching to HDR 400 / true black rather than any other setting like HDR 1000.