Asus ROG Swift PG278Q monitor, 1440p/144hz/G-Sync

Can someone do me a favor? I got my monitor replaced by Amazon and it has the same issue. Want to know if it's just a driver thing I guess or if I have bad luck.

The only way I can reliably replicate it is with GPUZ, so if you have that program, run the monitor at 144hz, and run GPUZ. Near the bottom should be a "select GPU" tab that goes between onboard and dedicated. Switch it to onboard, then to the dedicated. Does the screen sort of flicker/flash for a second? If you switch to 120hz, does it behave the same way?

It happens in other stuff but that's the most easy to replicate. It goes away at 120hz and below. Have tried multiple Displayport cables. I'm on a 970. Is it maybe the driver having issues with 144hz, or the card? Trying to narrow things down a bit.
 
Corpekata said:
Can someone do me a favor? I got my monitor replaced by Amazon and it has the same issue. Want to know if it's just a driver thing I guess or if I have bad luck.

The only way I can reliably replicate it is with GPUZ, so if you have that program, run the monitor at 144hz, and run GPUZ. Near the bottom should be a "select GPU" tab that goes between onboard and dedicated. Switch it to onboard, then to the dedicated. Does the screen sort of flicker/flash for a second? If you switch to 120hz, does it behave the same way?

It happens in other stuff but that's the most easy to replicate. It goes away at 120hz and below. Have tried multiple Displayport cables. I'm on a 970. Is it maybe the driver having issues with 144hz, or the card? Trying to narrow things down a bit.
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This may not help you, but I also have a short flickering on my Swift. These happen when my BOINC manager finishes a job assigned to my GPU and receives a new one.
For me it does not happen anywhere else or when I am in a game.
As I do have a i7 4820 I unfortunately can not test it by switching to onboard GPU.
 
Shaldome said:
This may not help you, but I also have a short flickering on my Swift. These happen when my BOINC manager finishes a job assigned to my GPU and receives a new one.
For me it does not happen anywhere else or when I am in a game.
As I do have a i7 4820 I unfortunately can not test it by switching to onboard GPU.
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Well, it's not actually switching to the onboard GPU, it's just switching monitoring (mine's disabled anyway). Not sure if it gives you the tab without one though.

Does the flicker happen on all refresh rates for you?
 
Corpekata said:
Well, it's not actually switching to the onboard GPU, it's just switching monitoring (mine's disabled anyway). Not sure if it gives you the tab without one though.

Does the flicker happen on all refresh rates for you?
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Sorry for the late reply. I can test it with lower refresh rates and see if it still happens.
 
I just ordered one of these today but I wish I had read through this thread first :(

So many issues its unreal, think I may just cancel it I can't be dealing with RMA's on a £600 monitor. Shame.
 
10101 said:
I just ordered one of these today but I wish I had read through this thread first :(

So many issues its unreal, think I may just cancel it I can't be dealing with RMA's on a £600 monitor. Shame.
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Well for what it's worth, mine doesn't have a single problem. Remember that people often only post when there's an issue.
 
Cheers guys :)

I kept my order, figured I was being a bit of a drama queen about it. I'm sure it will be fine and if not I will survive. Just need Wednesday to hurry up now!
 
Yeah, if we're checking in to just confirm a working purchase, I got mine when it was released and it's been totally fine.
 
Mine turned up today a day early :)

Working perfectly and it's an amazing piece of kit - glad I didn't bail out on it now.
 
can someone do look at the back of their monitor for me please?

I've recently noticed if you look through the air vents at the back of the monitor there is a red light (fine) but there is also a green flashing light.

I don't know if this has always flashed or im just going bad.

Someone check theirs for me please?
 
Drama Zed Nod said:
can someone do look at the back of their monitor for me please?

I've recently noticed if you look through the air vents at the back of the monitor there is a red light (fine) but there is also a green flashing light.

I don't know if this has always flashed or im just going bad.

Someone check theirs for me please?
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It flashes.
 
anyone experienced G-Sync not turning off?

I exited out of a game, and the panel is still set to G-Sync (red light on and displayed G-Sync mode in the OSD)
 
I mean, as far as I tell, it doesn't affect the use of the panel when not gaming right?

But when the monitor is on g-sync you cant use ULMB, which I use when watching netflix and stuff like that

Kind of annoying. Tried rebooting, unplugging, etc, and its made no difference.
 
It's by design, and it fucking sucks.

Before this update. If you could get a game at 120hz then you could disable gsync in the program settings and have it switch to ULMB automatically. It was really easy and swift, you could switch between games that ran on ULMB or GSYNC without having to do anything, allowing you to experiment with the different settings.

Now you can't, either it's GSYNC only or ULMB only.

Fuck it, I'll use the old drivers for now.
 
Should I buy one of these? I've never really gamed on a monitor outside of 2d indie games since I play all my 3d stuff on TV-out to my big screen plasma.

But I'm super curious about 144hz and g-sync smoothness as I've never experienced either. But on the Oculus Rift, the 75hz is really, really nice and smooth so it makes me excited about the concept of more than 60hz gaming smoothness.

But I have a GTX 980 while that's good, I'm not going to be hitting beyond 60fps for anything modern as all the latest graphical AAA games are like 40-60fps with some decent AA, max graphical settings. But that's where the g-sync should help a lot right? And for less graphical games like older titles and indie stuff I should be able to experience the 144fps.

I just feel like if I'm going to jump into g-sync and 144hz, I want to make sure I jump in with the right monitor that's going to blow me away and get me to want to use it on a 27" screen over a 50" plasma for gaming. Also I'm not sure whether it'd be smarter to use the same money and spend it on a second 980 for SLI to just get locked 60fps on my Plasma for the rest of the console gen. Just feeling like getting myself a present and tempted but not completely sold on buying the Asus ROG.
 
Bebpo said:
Should I buy one of these? I've never really gamed on a monitor outside of 2d indie games since I play all my 3d stuff on TV-out to my big screen plasma.

But I'm super curious about 144hz and g-sync smoothness as I've never experienced either. But on the Oculus Rift, the 75hz is really, really nice and smooth so it makes me excited about the concept of more than 60hz gaming smoothness.

But I have a GTX 980 while that's good, I'm not going to be hitting beyond 60fps for anything modern as all the latest graphical AAA games are like 40-60fps with some decent AA, max graphical settings. But that's where the g-sync should help a lot right? And for less graphical games like older titles and indie stuff I should be able to experience the 144fps.

I just feel like if I'm going to jump into g-sync and 144hz, I want to make sure I jump in with the right monitor that's going to blow me away and get me to want to use it on a 27" screen over a 50" plasma for gaming. Also I'm not sure whether it'd be smarter to use the same money and spend it on a second 980 for SLI to just get locked 60fps on my Plasma for the rest of the console gen. Just feeling like getting myself a present and tempted but not completely sold on buying the Asus ROG.
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Keep in mind the ROG is 1440p, so that will hit the FPS more

I have a 980 as well. Most games I play are in between 70-90 FPS at 1440p. Crysis 3 at around 70 FPS at Max. Watch Dogs at about 50-60 FPS near Max, Final Fantasy 14 at around 100 FPS max. etc. And all this without tearing thanks to G-Sync.

The caveat is that it's a TN panel, so viewing angles are not great. You have to find the sweet spot, luckily the panel is extremely adjustable.

Color wise, its 8 bit vs 6 bit, so I dont feel its a big downgrade from an IPS. I tried a Dell Ultrasharp IPS before the ROG, and while there is a difference, its negligible after dialing it in.
 
Just noticed the G-Sync not turning off with the new GTAV drivers.

Glad to see im not the only one and my monitor isn't fucked!

Does having G-Sync on all the time cause any determent to general windows tasks? Does it make any better?
 
Odrion said:
It's by design, and it fucking sucks.

Before this update. If you could get a game at 120hz then you could disable gsync in the program settings and have it switch to ULMB automatically. It was really easy and swift, you could switch between games that ran on ULMB or GSYNC without having to do anything, allowing you to experiment with the different settings.

Now you can't, either it's GSYNC only or ULMB only.

Fuck it, I'll use the old drivers for now.
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Dead said:
wow yeah, seems it is by design and part of the new driver

fucking stupid
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No, it's not by design. It is a bug. The new driver broke the LED.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1509599/official-asus-rog-swift-pg278q-owners-club/4620#post_23802739
http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?60406-pg278q-power-LED-and-GSYNC-question
http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/352910-rog-swift-g-sync-light-always-on/

Drama Zed Nod said:
Does having G-Sync on all the time cause any determent to general windows tasks? Does it make any better?
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G-Sync only works with games in full screen mode.
 
According to the review at tftcentral, I can't run the monitor at 144hz when a game is set to 1080p?

operating_modes.jpg


Does this mean the 144hz is ONLY available when I play at 1440p?
 
indy14 said:
No, it's not by design. It is a bug. The new driver broke the LED.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1509599/official-asus-rog-swift-pg278q-owners-club/4620#post_23802739
http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?60406-pg278q-power-LED-and-GSYNC-question
http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/352910-rog-swift-g-sync-light-always-on/



G-Sync only works with games in full screen mode.
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No, it's by design:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=160619485&postcount=592


NVIDIA said:
In our recent driver, when G-SYNC is enabled in the NV Control Panel, it is always enabled and now supersedes in-game settings. A consequence for example, is that an end-user wanting to use ULMB mode in a game, must first turn-off G-SYNC in the NV Control Panel. We are investigating alternatives for a future driver release, but for now, use the NV Control Panel to turn off G-SYNC before using ULMB mode.
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Sorry for the necro bump, but I know some people here have this monitor. I have it and it looks like the image is shifted to the right by an 8th of an inch, so it creates this 8th of an inch bar on the left of the screen and at the top. Is my monitor defective? Or are there any settings I can adjust to get the monitor back in position?
 
BeEatNU said:
I thought it was just me. I had the flickerng but only on loading screen for wow. Any other time it's fine
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I actually found an explanation for the load screen flickering issue here:

http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?52970-PG278Q-GSYNC-and-Fluctuating-brightness

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Editorial/Look-Reported-G-Sync-Display-Flickering

Measured brightness over time, loading screen in the middle with normal 144hz refresh on the left/right:
eve%20ss-2-.png
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If G-SYNC is enabled, and the screen isn't updating (e.g. static loading screens), it still needs to get redrawn occasionally or else the whole screen would go white. The chart shows gradual increases with brightness after a refresh, followed by a sudden dip when the refresh happens. This is because the pixels tend toward white (bright) if they sit without being refreshed. With G-SYNC, it does a redraw after 33ms (30Hz) if nothing else happens to avoid worse problems with brightness variance.

To fix the issue, developers would need to tell the GPU to keep refreshing that loading screen (e.g. at 60Hz) rather than having it sit as a static screen and fall back on that mandatory redraw.
 
Seems my monitor finally bit the dust (had it since the end of Aug 2014). The text in the middle of the screen is very blurry, and at 144Hz the backlight flickers on the whole screen.

Reseating didn't seem to fix anything, guess it's time to RMA.
 
For anyone that has RMA'd the monitor, how did you go about packaging the monitor? Do you use the original packaging/box that the monitor came in or did you just buy a new box and send it in that way?
 
nextgeneration said:
For anyone that has RMA'd the monitor, how did you go about packaging the monitor? Do you use the original packaging/box that the monitor came in or did you just buy a new box and send it in that way?
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They tell you to not send it in with the original packaging because if they repair your monitor and send it back, you will not get your packaging back. I guess if you don't care about having the original packaging, it should be fine.

Also I didn't want to send it with the original packaging because it advertises to the world what it is.
 
Corpekata said:
4k at a good FPS is still pretty hard to maintain. So depends on what you're putting into your PC really.
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Well, as bizzare as it may sound, I wasn't thinking of 4k monitor expecting something like tw3 maxed 60fps yet. I'd be getting a 5820k OCd (for ue4 Maya etc) and a 980Ti but the monitor would be more in mind with upgrading parts in 2 years or so.

I suppose it'd be better to get a 1440p GSync where I can have higher settings and better framearates and wait for upgrading when 4k monitors are better and cheaper.
 
BossDarkseid said:
I suppose it'd be better to get a 1440p GSync where I can have higher settings and better framearates and wait for upgrading when 4k monitors are better and cheaper.
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Yeah, that's the thinking I went with when I bought this monitor last year and it's served me well.

My Titan X, which your 980Ti is comparable to, runs all current games maxed at 1440p good fps. The less demanding games I can run with 4K DSR.

In two years, there will be a lot of good 4K monitors to choose from and a single GPU available that can push that many pixels comfortably.
 
BossDarkseid said:
Guys if I'm building a new PC....should I go with this/1440p Gsync monitor or whole the whole hog and 4k etc?
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Depends on your priorities. Resolution will lead to great IQ but 4k displays are all slow. I play competitive FPS and the difference between 60 and 144Hz is massive. I could never go back to something less than 120Hz personally.
 
BossDarkseid said:
Well, as bizzare as it may sound, I wasn't thinking of 4k monitor expecting something like tw3 maxed 60fps yet. I'd be getting a 5820k OCd (for ue4 Maya etc) and a 980Ti but the monitor would be more in mind with upgrading parts in 2 years or so.

I suppose it'd be better to get a 1440p GSync where I can have higher settings and better framearates and wait for upgrading when 4k monitors are better and cheaper.
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I would suggest an ultra wide monitor, 1440p.
 
Corpekata said:
Can someone do me a favor? I got my monitor replaced by Amazon and it has the same issue. Want to know if it's just a driver thing I guess or if I have bad luck.

The only way I can reliably replicate it is with GPUZ, so if you have that program, run the monitor at 144hz, and run GPUZ. Near the bottom should be a "select GPU" tab that goes between onboard and dedicated. Switch it to onboard, then to the dedicated. Does the screen sort of flicker/flash for a second? If you switch to 120hz, does it behave the same way?

It happens in other stuff but that's the most easy to replicate. It goes away at 120hz and below. Have tried multiple Displayport cables. I'm on a 970. Is it maybe the driver having issues with 144hz, or the card? Trying to narrow things down a bit.
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Flicker happens to me when Nvidia attempts to use gsync on a window or application that isn't refreshing at a high rate. It looks almost like a strobing. I don't think it's a monitor problem, rather Nvidia thinking the application should use gsync when it shouldn't. You can add exceptions for these in the control panel.
 
Nif said:
Flicker happens to me when Nvidia attempts to use gsync on a window or application that isn't refreshing at a high rate. It looks almost like a strobing. I don't think it's a monitor problem, rather Nvidia thinking the application should use gsync when it shouldn't. You can add exceptions for these in the control panel.
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It's actually because LCDs need to be refreshed periodically or they fade to white. When the application isn't refreshing, gsync does it at the minimum rate which produces that flickering.
 
nextgeneration said:
Hmm, they told me to send the display back only. In any case, I figured it out. How long has it been since you've gotten it back and do you have any issues with the new one, if you don't mind me asking?
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I organised a pick-up from ASUS. The sent a courier to my door and they picked up the monitor.

The courier wanted everything in the box packaged and ready to go (although the documentation from ASUS did say detach the monitor from the stand, have it unboxed etc, so it was lucky i had actually kept the box.)

The courier also had my new monitor there with them at that time. They did this for me when i called and complained so i would push for this.

I've not had any issues with the new one at all.
 
Drama Zed Nod said:
I organised a pick-up from ASUS. The sent a courier to my door and they picked up the monitor.

The courier wanted everything in the box packaged and ready to go (although the documentation from ASUS did say detach the monitor from the stand, have it unboxed etc, so it was lucky i had actually kept the box.)

The courier also had my new monitor there with them at that time. They did this for me when i called and complained so i would push for this.

I've not had any issues with the new one at all.
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Too late. I already dropped off the display itself at FedEx. LOL. Well, glad to hear there are no problems with the new one you got. Hopefully, the quality control on the most recent ones are a lot better.
 
Wow, I am impressed with how my RMA went with this. Hassle free and I got my monitor back fairly quickly.

- Shipped out 8/18
- Received back on 8/28
- I only sent the screen back to them, nothing else, and they ended up shipping an entirely brand new monitor back to me! Did not expect that at all.
- Manufacture date is April 2015.

Let's see how this one holds up. Hopefully, this one will be problem free.
 
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