Help with MHW graphics (?)

[The Mothership]

I don't know if this is in the right forum ot not.

So I've bought a new gaming computer about a month ago, which my brother helped be build and put together. He's a good guy you know, I trust him. But the only issue I've ever had is my monitor. It has some pretty extreme aftershadows whenever things move, such as playing in dark in-game environments, like Skyrim or MHW. I didn't care about it until now because World is the only game I'm serious about.

I tried changing the gamma, messing with the monitor settings, brightness, etc. Nothing on Google helps me.

[Ancient]

Sounds like you may just have gotten a monitor that suffers from ghosting/afterimage. That's usually only common or really bad in cheaper, non-gaming monitors.

You can run this test to see if you notice any green ghosting trails behind the moving images of yellow UFOs: https://www.testufo.com/ghosting

Most monitors will show some, but it should only be slight at 960PPS of movement. If it's really bad on a specific monitor, you 'll see a much larger green ghost image trailing behind each UFO.

[DAOWAce]

^ What they said.

Also check out if there's an "overdrive" or "trace free" or whatever setting on the monitor OSD control panel. Raise/lower it and see if it improves things.

[Ancient]

Originally posted by DAOWAce:

^ What they said.

Also check out if there's an "overdrive" or "trace free" or whatever setting on the monitor OSD control panel. Raise/lower it and see if it improves things.

Yep. Well caught. I totally forgot about overdrive after using it for so long.

ASUS's tech for this is called Trace Free.
BenQ has AMA.
Acer calls it OverDrive.
Other brands may just call it Overdrive or some variation.

Either way, those technologies improve pixel response times and reduce ghosting but may introduce another artifact called coronas, so you're usually going to get the best quality with the middle setting, which will be a compromise of much less ghosting without very large or noticeable coronas.

I use Trace Free at 60 of 100 on my ASUS monitor to reduce the ghosting and keep coronal artifacts minimal.