VRR Flicker On OLEDs Is A Real Problem

[tigerwoods]

 

[tigerwoods]

Pls share your OLED experience

 

[Koenig168]

Never encountered any flicker as I only play Hello Kitty Island Adventure on my AW3225QF.

 

[hyperfuse]

Never encountered flicker on my oled monitors because I don't use vrr lol..

Have used aw3423dwf, aw3225qf and aw2725df.

But probably it's because of my use case, I only use the monitor in SDR for productivity and the only game I play is cs2, also running it in SDR and these sorta games don't need vrr as they are high frame rate twitch shooters and the fps will mostly be above the monitor max refresh rate.

So for my use case, no issues at all. For productivity work, I also don't notice any text fringing maybe because I am not sensitive to it.

So far so good with oled monitors. I can't go back to IPS monitors due to the colors looking washed out.

 

[elmariachi]

Had my LG 27 oled since day 1 and yet to notice any vrr flicker. Most of these flickering issues seem to be related to the fact there is no dedicated gsync modules and simply replying on nvidia gsync compatible certification. The problem with that is if fps drops very low you will notice vrr flickering from my experience. Not so much if you're well inside the vrr range.

That being said if you play competitive and your fps is consistently above the refresh rate of your monitor, disable gsync and off vsync. Your input latency will be noticeably improved. You can see my frame times are very low with this setup. Enabling gsync and vsync will increase my frame times noticeably.

 

[Phen8210]

Had my LG 27 oled since day 1 and yet to notice any vrr flicker. Most of these flickering issues seem to be related to the fact there is no dedicated gsync modules and simply replying on nvidia gsync compatible certification. The problem with that is if fps drops very low you will notice vrr flickering from my experience. Not so much if you're well inside the vrr range.

That being said if you play competitive and your fps is consistently above the refresh rate of your monitor, disable gsync and off vsync. Your input latency will be noticeably improved. You can see my frame times are very low with this setup. Enabling gsync and vsync will increase my frame times noticeably.

Yeah.. when using Gsync, it happens on Windows with limited fps, regardless of the panel type.

The problem is pretty easy to reproduce when using the second option.


One of the programs that can replicate this issue is BlueJ.

I don't think its an OLED issue at all.

 

[Yongkit]

on my LG27 OLED used to get flickering (mostly during loading screen) with 3080 both DP 1.4 & HDMI 2.1, while HDMI is less severe compared to DP in HDR as my HDR is on all time.

a few games that I experience and can be observed with flickering in loading screen from stong to weak

1. MW series
2. Forza Horizon 5
3. Horizon Zero Dawn
4. Resident evil remake 2/3/4
5. Cyberpunk 2077
6. Halo Infinate

As of today now with 7900xtx, I have minimal flicketing (i would say almost no visioble) tested those game previously happen in loading screen.

a few point that I would noticed how my progress to improved the OLED experience was:

1. Get a better quality cable (HDMI or DP) as per your preference.
2. Depends on luck sometime driver screw up especially the nvidia in a way are no better than AMD which have been improving especially the 7000 series specifically my 7900xtx

 

[LiLAsN]

As the video has mentioned, the real problems are, your GPU. Get better GPUs to solve it or just turn off VRR for the few troublesome games. The end.

 

[Yongkit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/OLED_Gaming/s/y2eZbf0hJH

Not me but I am having the same experience with this OP

 

[soreloser]

yup the video mentions that the flickering is mainly due to large fps drops. If you can maintain a smooth high framerate, the issue is nonexistent.

 

[Yongkit]

yup the video mentions that the flickering is mainly due to large fps drops. If you can maintain a smooth high framerate, the issue is nonexistent.

The technical point is a tricky one as how do you maintain smooth high frame rate per se.

An OLED monitor can be paired with any GPU but I doubt on the reverse manner that majority user will purposely upgrade their system just to cater for the OLED monitor high frame rate.

Many casual gamer just want play with default settings and enjoy the benefits of OLED true black and pixel response time.

 

[Mach3.2]

Many casual gamer just want play with default settings and enjoy the benefits of OLED true black and pixel response time.

casual gamers play on ps5/xbox one + their flat screen TVs

those who spend more money on high end PCs and gucci OLED screens for the 0.1ms GtG respose time are usually not what I'd call casuals.

 

[Phen8210]

casual gamers play on ps5/xbox one + their flat screen TVs

they cannot see above 24 fps that's why always limit to 30 or even lower

 

[Yongkit]

casual gamers play on ps5/xbox one + their flat screen TVs

those who spend more money on high end PCs and gucci OLED screens for the 0.1ms GtG respose time are usually not what I'd call casuals.

My casual means an hour a day of leisure play

 

[ragnarok95]

My casual means an hour a day of leisure play

Nowadays i hardly launch any games lol. Maybe ETS2/F5 and i drive a bit and closed it. lol