Color Me Annoyed

[Naruzeldamaster]

The best way to know for sure if to find something that is known to be good and test with that. If you move the monitors to a different computer, does the problem move with them?

Of, if you put a monitor that works on one PC, on the failing one, does the problem go away?

Something hardware sounds like the problem. It would be unusual for both monitors to go at once. It would also be unusual for a Vid card to go bad and not hose the whole machine.

Moving monitors around is the easiest thing to do, just need another working PC.

Video cards can be set to things the monitors dont understand (like 300 FPS, when the monitor can only do 120), but that is unlikely as it would mean someone manually changing it, which I doubt you would have done.

A few of the more recent games I've played have like an 'uncapped' mode for frame rate and it's (stupidly) always on by default. Which really really pushes my PC.

Turning that setting off and setting the game to 60 FPS lock seems to fix it every time. My PC might be a gaming PC but it's not 'designed' to run games like that. Plus our eyes stop seeing improvements at 120 FPS (I think ) anyway.

I don't know any video card that sets to display frames at a rate the monitor itself can't handle though, at least not by default.

 

[Prince of Spires]

They're both all screwed up. One is hyper saturated and the other is all washed out. That, or I'm going blind. Blargh.

Sounds like on average, your monitors are just fine... Have you tried turning your head sideways and quinting in just the right way to combine both images? It might just work.

 

[skip.knox]

Sounds like graphics card, which is not great news, There was a cartoon, many and many a year ago, that has ever held true.

When there's trouble
First look up
Then look down
Then look in your wallet.

[minor edit: I think the line was, Look at your shoes. I can still see the line-drawn characters of the cartoon. ComputerWorld? PCMag? One of those]

 

[A. E. Lowan]

Is it your screens or the graphics card/chip on your computer?

That's a good thought. I think - hope - that it's the monitors. I can flip them back and forth, and the problem will stick with each of them.

 

[Naruzeldamaster]

That's a good thought. I think - hope - that it's the monitors. I can flip them back and forth, and the problem will stick with each of them.

I'm starting to think my speaker problem may be the sound card on the mother board.
Tries to use the speakers in the sound card built in to motherboard: sound problem go brr no matter what I do.
Tries using speakers in the monitor or other output device: sound problem go poof.
I may have to look into getting a dedicated sound card. I don't mind using my GPU but the sound is very...quiet? Not like volume wise (like with the sound problem) but like, not as powerful. And I know these speakers can do up to 32 Hertz (Studio Quality)

Either way I hope we both resolve our issues soon, tech issues are annoying when you aren't a techy lol

 

[A. E. Lowan]

I'm starting to think my speaker problem may be the sound card on the mother board.
Tries to use the speakers in the sound card built in to motherboard: sound problem go brr no matter what I do.
Tries using speakers in the monitor or other output device: sound problem go poof.
I may have to look into getting a dedicated sound card. I don't mind using my GPU but the sound is very...quiet? Not like volume wise (like with the sound problem) but like, not as powerful. And I know these speakers can do up to 32 Hertz (Studio Quality)

Either way I hope we both resolve our issues soon, tech issues are annoying when you aren't a techy lol

Sing it. lol

I've exhausted my options, I think. Now, it's time to start working toward replacing these two with something a bit more. This is gonna take a little time, but I'm getting two of these and maybe put them both on arms so I'm taking up less of my wife's side of the desk.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZL719V1/?

 

[Romy]

I'm starting to think my speaker problem may be the sound card on the mother board.
Tries to use the speakers in the sound card built in to motherboard: sound problem go brr no matter what I do.
Tries using speakers in the monitor or other output device: sound problem go poof.
I may have to look into getting a dedicated sound card. I don't mind using my GPU but the sound is very...quiet? Not like volume wise (like with the sound problem) but like, not as powerful. And I know these speakers can do up to 32 Hertz (Studio Quality)

Either way I hope we both resolve our issues soon, tech issues are annoying when you aren't a techy lol

There are quite some decent usb sound cards these days... If studio quality is something you are after, try checking audio stores, not hifi but musicians (europe we have Thomann for instance). At least external gets the audio signal away from pc. Check with pro equipment if you can use them as regular audio 'card' (focusrite is ok but think more known with apple people). Dac is what you are looking for but attracts 'fairy forged' hifi people.