Image Burn/Retention

[Nothgiel]

I bought a monitor just over 1 month ago.
Iiyama G-Master GB2770QSU. Been running live wallpapers straight away and only the last 4 weeks I've been experiencing really bad screen image retention and thousands of vertical pixel lines showing up with flickering. It has now progressively gotten worse as now I turn the PC on and straight away when I log in the problem appears. It never use to do that.

The moment I exit wallpaper engine and use a static image for the desktop background it gradually disappears and goes back to normal. If I play a game making wallpaper engine pause it gradually goes back to normal too. It's very strange and don't understand why this is happening. I hope someone can help.

I use the Astronaut holding a jellyfish live wallpaper.

[Biohazard]

If your monitor is susceptible to this then you should pick a wallpaper with a lot of motion or low contrast/brightness.

You haven't linked the wallpaper but if it is what I think it is then it has quite high contrast elements with strong colors on a dark background, which is exactly what you wouldn't want on a monitor that has this problem. You can always use the color options in Wallpaper Engine to reduce the brightness and contrast too though and keep using the same wallpaper.

However your monitor has an IPS panel and IPS panels should not have this issue at all no matter what it displays. There is probably another issue with your monitor, cable or GPU since what you describe is not even typical for "screen burn-in" on OLED panels.

[WeDontEatAnymore]

I have the exact problem with the exact monitor (GB2770QSU). This is why I stumbled upon this thread.
It is not Wallpaper Engine related and doesn't happen with everything.

A while ago, I was playing Terraria @ 60fps and wondered how it'll feel playing with 165fps. This was the first time I noticed the lines and thought it was a faulty panel where the image burns into the display. I then let it settle and make sure the lines were gone before putting it back @ 60fps. The lines didn't come up again.
This happened to a couple of games where the screen has a semi-static image when playing at the full resolution/refresh rate.

Fast-forwarding to today. I was playing Minecraft at the default 60fps. Wanted to play at the full refresh rate. The lines only showed up when I stopped playing for today and got on the multiplayer screen for only 3 seconds.

I think this has indeed something to do with high contrast on a darker background + a too high refresh rate.

We should blame the panel for this issue...

[Nothgiel]

I was able to fix it by uninstalling my graphics and then reinstalling the driver. I have an Aorus Geforce RTX 2070 super. So far for about 3 months i have not had any problems. There was a website that triggered the lines and image retention once but it hasn't happened again.

I think it had something to do with the software/driver of the card mixed with this specific monitor.

[Aukyron]

Originally posted by Nothgiel:

I bought a monitor just over 1 month ago.
Iiyama G-Master GB2770QSU. Been running live wallpapers straight away and only the last 4 weeks I've been experiencing really bad screen image retention and thousands of vertical pixel lines showing up with flickering

Hello mate and sorry for the post revive.

I'd just like to tell out that I have the same screen and same kind of problems. I think the problem goes away if Limited RGB is selected instead of Full RGB, but it really lower the graphic quality....

Edit: I'm on a 3060 Ti btw

[Yocairo]

Heh, so I guess there really is an issue with GB2770QSU. I have the same thing. On dark websites, after a while a very clear retained image is formed on the screen.

[Aukyron]

Originally posted by Yocairo:

Heh, so I guess there really is an issue with GB2770QSU. I have the same thing. On dark websites, after a while a very clear retained image is formed on the screen.

Yes. After quite some research I've found out it's specific to some GB2770QSU screens. Unfortunately, no one found a true solution except some workarounds that impact the image quality like I said on previous post.