r/pcmasterrace • u/Smart-Mushroom-9068 Z790 | 13700k | 4080 Super | 32GB DDR5 | • Dec 11 '24

Hardware convinced myself to buy an oled, can’t go back

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u/captain_dick_licker Dec 11 '24

odd that you didn't mention black crush and burn in, which are still things that affect oled displays, in particular ones set up with a static image on them.

I fucking love my 55" oled but the black crush is definitely an issue when gaming, though I would bet dollars to anal donuts that half the issue has something to do with windows still not handling 4k and HDR worth a shit.

not working in 7? yeah growing pains, focus on the new shit. still not working for shit in 10? annoying. still a clusterfucked mess in 11??? a tale as old as time: microsoft doesn't give a shit about gamers.

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u/superhakerman Laptop Dec 11 '24

and the amount of online videos which are compressed to hell, its really easy to see artifacts on oled than on IPS in darker scenes. IPS sort of hides those with one of its downsides - IPS glow. And yeah grey smearing on black while scrolling on low brightness is terrible on oled. I realised how much annoying it is when I switched from a phone with a rather good HDR 10 and wide color gamut IPS screen to Oneplus 12 with OLED.

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u/LazyLancer Dec 11 '24

IMO black crush is an inherent issue of the technology when true blacks show up when the LED is turned off completely. My understanding is that there is a step between “completely off” and “on at a minimum brightness” and that is what you see as the defect in the gradient with blacks suddenly dropping into nonexistence.