The Best Settings for Your Monitor

I'm gonna show you how to set up your (gaming) monitor to get the best image quality and response times performance.

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Index:
0:00 - Connection Choices
1:00 - Start Clean
1:18 - Use Every Hz
1:41 - Adaptive Sync
2:53 - Finding The Best Settings
4:10 - Gamma, RGB & Contrast
6:26 - Image Enhancers
7:01 - Get The Best / Response Times
7:51 - Change The Brightness

[Magicmann]

Thank you so much for the advice on brightness at the end. For so long I would unfortunately reduce contrast thinking it’s helping my eyes, but if anything that made them strain more. I thought my brightness was already so low (35), but just lowering that more does the trick.

Thank you! My monitor isn’t as washed out and I can stare at it forever!!

[nhpcbnd]

A nice video. You speak so clearly. Those who are not speak English can understand your content.

[NightLoki]

I actually love this video. It helped me soo much. When I played a game it would start making high contrast whenever I moved and now its fixed. Thank you

[Kriztophh]

wow, with the sRGB Setting my Screen looks so much more colorful now. Great Video, thank u 👍

[BrockMak]

My 27P2Q (not a gaming monitor, but does have Gaming modes), I just load the ICM but turn the brightness down to 0 (even to the point of using a screen filter at night). My old monitor has the opposite problem with brightness being too low even at max. Both are IPS panels, but it's nearly 15 years old.
sRGB mode is not recommended for me because it locks in brightness as well.

[shakybeevessouls]

Huge thanks!! There were some fundamentals you talked through that were the game changer for me. If the start point is 50 in terms of RGB then adjust down and trying to leave most settings at their starting point. Im always tweaking my setting as I've never been fully happy, with these basic principles I finally feel completely happy with my monitor picture!! 😎👍

[iamfrog]

While this is a niche thing to do, its worth mentioning that if you have a TN monitor, reducing the contrast setting generally brings a response time benefit (doesnt really apply to IPS or VA), this is specially useful to reduce crosstalk when strobing.
For anyone reading this, keep in mind the contrast hit is quite noticeable, and TN's already low contrast ratio doesnt help.

If you want to reduce VA smearing you can try using a bit of black equalizer..but again, with a picture quality hit

[funnehhhh]

I've been searching up monitor tutorial/comparison and yours is always come up with great quality to both picture and content. Subscribed!

[SuperLamarrioDS]

Thank you very much. It turns out Gaming mode isn't great for the types of games I play, or for watching movies/shows. Messes up all the subtle colours, especially the darkness levels. I was trying to watch House of the Dragon and there were just so many dark blotches and blurs. But thanks to your guide, and the website you suggested for monitor settings, I managed to sync them up with my AMD gpu settings, and vice versa. The settings they suggested looked a little dark so I turned them up a smidgen (brightness) but overall, it's a much better experience than it was. Thank you! :)

[soegte]

Just discovered your channel, loving the videos, this is gonna help me a lot

[OrangeMax]

Great video learned a lot including the settings that I need to fix to improve my gaming proformance

[-Constantine-]

Hey man thank you for the guide it helped me a lot. i Have a question although: Why dynamic lighting and DCR should always be off? I would imagine that without HDR in my monitor would be nice features to have. Thank you in advance

[gummi]

I'm so glad to found this video! Sometimes i was wondering why my monitor couldn't be more vivid color than my phone with a gamut color (even though my LG 22MK600 had 99% srgb). Gonna try this later, thank you!

[seppous]

ive never seen this kind of vid before. im glad YT brought me here. I support and subbed.

[zencirik]

thanks for the guiding and simple explanations! <3

[ShigeBoye]

Best channel for monitor related info imo!

[TekNikIn]

Display port or hdmi for lenovo g25 (if i used hdmi bundle from the monitor it can play hdr mode but when used display port it can't) Great video as always. Thanks.

[kwahsontt]

Thanks bro, this helped me so much in gaming!

[DylanCar]

Resetting my monitor fixed all my problems thank you so much!

[pepper]

Thank you so much. You are really interesting to interesting to listen to and worth an ear. I shall keep you nearby in case I need to hear you again.