Mega Man X4 Image burned into my Monitor

[MythicDawn]

The Graph that the two green continents are displayed on, containing speech bubbles during the character select screen has been burned into my computer monitor. I had walked away for about roughly 30 minutes and when i returned, the flicker of the graph left its mark. I have shut down the game, restart the computer and even shut it down and the image is still there.

No idea how or if i can even fix this, I didnt think this was possible considering i've left a game running for 4 hours before and never had an image burn like this.

Be careful with this!

[BloodNile]

woww thanks for letting me know

[MythicDawn]

Im going to try a solution i found online stating that i should set a solid white image as my screen saver until the image has faded. No idea if it will work considering its a image that flickers. Will keep this thread updated if issue is resolved on its own or i manage to eliminate the problem slightly.

[Dr Poocrumbs]

what the hell

[Gamma Lyrae]

A perfect 30hz flicker will defeat any anti-image retention features of an LCD panel. Try not to leave such flickering content on your display for extended periods. In most cases, this retention will not be permanent, and normal use of the monitor will allow it to fade with time.

To be clear, this is not a game specific problem, but a content specific problem. Anything that perfectly flickers at a 30hz rate will cause this problem on most LCD monitors. To elaborate a little, if something is a certain color on one frame, and a different color on the next, and this pattern repeats indefinitely with no deviation in timing, this defeats the anti-image retention feature of most LCD panels and will lead to image retention. Sometimes you'll see a faint image of the image that was flickering, other times, your monitor might still appear to be flickering in that section. Other flickering patterns can cause this retention, but an on/off 30hz pattern is more common in games.

[MythicDawn]

PROBLEM FIXED/SOLVED

ok, so i saved a solid white image, set it as my screen saver and clicked preview. I left the solid white image on my screen for roughly 20 minutes then decided screw it and shut the monitor off completely while the screen saver was still in preview mode....not sure if that mattered.

after i'd say 2 hours i turned back on my monitor and upon movement of the house and the screen saver disappearing, the burned flicker image was gone.

occasionally I still feel like i see it, but that is only because i was so fixated on it and panicking my monitor was done for.....it is infact GONE

[NØNE/Dragon]

Wait what? Never heard of this issue before.

[Crashed]

Originally posted by MythicDawn:

The Graph that the two green continents are displayed on, containing speech bubbles during the character select screen has been burned into my computer monitor. I had walked away for about roughly 30 minutes and when i returned, the flicker of the graph left its mark. I have shut down the game, restart the computer and even shut it down and the image is still there.

No idea how or if i can even fix this, I didnt think this was possible considering i've left a game running for 4 hours before and never had an image burn like this.

Be careful with this!

What kind of display do you have that would burn in an image?

[MythicDawn]

I actually have an LG LED Monitor its around 2-3 years old i'd say, not LCD, Gamma Lyrae shed light on the subject up above. It makes sense cause I left Final Fantasy X running for like a solid 24 hours recently just because I was too lazy to shut it off and I didnt have any issues....nothing in the game where i was standing had any changing pixels or colors happening consistently at the HZ he/she stated above and so my monitor didnt suffer any problems......now if I had stopped infront of a sign in the game that flashed the word "SHOP" and i left it, then that image or at least the outline would have been burned in since it flashes/displays in game at a consistent HZ rate

[Steve Fox]

If you have an LG OLED TV run the pixel refresh before you go to bed.