Hi guys, I have now owned this monitor for 3 weeks or so and below are my findings:
* the colors are pretty good out of the factory but an adjustment going from an IPS monitor, I've played with these settings for weeks only to revert back to factory presets
* refresh rate works great as expected
* there are clear issues with ghosting on this VA panel which is expected, especially with smearing blacks in dark scenes and texture flickering on black to white contrast (i.e. Far Cry 5 at night, PUBG on Sanhok inside buildings, Skyrim at night) - this is even on the highest settings for response rate (fastest mode). I also found that the black smearing/ghosting is worse at 144 hz and better at 120 hz and below
* Freesync works as most other Gsync Compatible monitors - pretty good for the most part apart from the brightness flickering in menus etc. This basically happens on VA panels because at lower refresh rate the screen runs a bit darker/dimmer i.e. 60 hz and brighter above 90 hz, when the game fluctuates a lot like in menus (i.e. PUBG, Apex Legends) as the fps keep dropping to 30 fps and then up above 100 fps etc. - this is where the flickering is most evident. *I FOUND A SOLUTION THAT WORKS FOR THIS MONITOR* - so what I did to resolve this is the following to help those in need and this will most likely work for other Freesync monitors too: Download an application called CRU (free to download), open it, click on EDIT at the top, change your Freesync range from 48 - 146 to 90 - 146. Save and restart the PC, switch off monitor and on again and re-enable Gsync in the driver. Then in the Nvidia Control Panel make sure that you enable Vsync globally (this is the correct way to implement Freesync anyway, Vsync only engages out of the Freesync range so you'll still get no input lag between 90 and 141 fps). Then cap your fps in all games with Rivatuner (comes with MSI Afterburner) to 141 and keep your refresh rate on 144 hz. Most of the flickering will disappear as there are no crazy hz jumps anymore. Also, the great thing here is that if a game is running at 70 fps it will double up the hz and will run with Freesync at 140 hz if the game is at 65 fps, it will run at 130 hz and this will work dynamically. The dead zone will be between 73 and 89 fps where it will use Vsync instead (hardly noticeable but a good compromise to get Freesync working without flickering). My suggestion is frame lock more demanding games at like 65 fps for a smooth experience and the FPS games that are fast paced must run above 90 fps at all times - then issue resolved. I really hope this helps someone
* Here are all my settings that I use with this monitor after fiddling for days on end: Input DP, Brightness - 90, Contrast - 50, DCR - Off, Gamma - 2.4 (more accurate to sRGB, don't use 2.2 as this is an incorrect default setting, Color Temperature - Warm (tried calls and user and it just never looks right), the rest of the settings should be default here, don't fiddle with Saturation and Hue, leave at 50, Bypass - Off, Sharpness - 50, Response Time - High, Noise Reduction - Off, Super Resolution - Off, DLC - Off, FreeSync - On, The rest of the settings should be left on default
In summary, should you buy this monitor - well the answer is - it depends, this monitor is pretty much on par with more expensive VA panels and is almost half the price, so if you don't mind slow response times, black to white/gray to gray transitions and minor smearing/ghosting in dark scenes then this monitor is amazing for the price - large screen and curved, high refresh rate, 1440P, Freesync (after configuration), great contrast, good colors (albeit sometimes overly bright and washed out at times compared to IPS). You won't get bigger and better for this price unless you go TN panel which has it's own problems and poor viewing angles etc. If the smearing bothers you - don't buy a VA panel, rather save up and get an IPS instead.
I registered specifically to help people on this forum who own this monitor or are considering buying it. I thought I could be of help.
