Acer XB270HU Yellow Tint

[gsheph252]

Just got it about a week ago. It seems to have a light yellow tint on the entire screen. Is that normal or did I get a faulty monitor? Seems to get more yellow the longer I look at it. I honestly can't tell if its just my eyes or the monitor its so slight. 

[Samfisher]

Calibrate the colours?

[gsheph252]

Yea, I looked up the info on TFT

[P4inz]

Acer had massive problems in QC with those monitors, I have the same one and had to return it once due to backlight bleed, maybe you got unlucky in the batch as well.

Or maybe check the color adjustment in the monitor menu itself, is it maybe set to "game" or something else than "user"? From what I can tell it give a slight yellow tint when you fiddle with those settings, otherwise just RMA it.

[gsheph252]

Maybe I should post a picture. 

 

[gsheph252]

[P4inz]

Can be the picture quality, but I personally can´t tell a yellow tint from this.

Only thing when I compare it with what I see at the moment, due to the fact that I have the same model, is, that your colours are a bit darker than mine.
But, as I said, this can also relate to the picture quality.

 

All I can say is, if it bothers you, RMA it. 
It´s a premium product so you deserve a premium experience like everyone else who spends 600+ bucks on a display.

[gsheph252]

I honestly think its my eyes playing tricks on me. Because if i photo it or record it the yellow tint seems to fade away. It's not too bad I think I can live with it. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't definitely broken. 

[Majestic]

Hold a sheet of A4 next to it, when in paint or something. And make sure the whitebalance of the camera isn't fucking you over.

 

Edit; just tried that myself, very impractical to do

[Bananasplit_00]

color calibration because i cant see anything wrong in the picture or maby the picture dosent catch it that well, well go into color calibration and check if you can do anything about it thats my best advice

[P4inz]

Maybe it helps when I show you a picture from my perspective.

Edited February 15, 2016 by P4inz
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[gsheph252]

My color balance changed from user to warm... and my brightness was cranked way up. Seems my settings are changing by themselves. 

[Majestic]

Could be the angle, but there does appear to be a gradient visible on the screen. It's not uniform.

[P4inz]

Do you let the monitor on power the whole time? Or do you pull the plug when you turn your PC off? Some monitors tend to lose settings when they are powered off completely.

I personally have all my stuff powered on stand-by all the time, due to the fact that some friends (one with the ROG swift) experienced that his g-sync module would randomly deactivate itself over night when the monitor is not connected to power and wont turn itself on again, except by doing it manually in the driver software and on the monitor menu itself.

 

If you want to test further and not with some white sheet of paper next to your monitor I would recommend you visit this site: http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/

 

It offers a lot of different still-image test to determine the right contrast/brightness/colour levels for you.
 

[Majestic]

[gsheph252]

I keep the monitor on standby. I actually put my PC in sleep mode so that I can resume working when I get back. I am going to check out this site.

 

[gsheph252]

So, according to the site linked. My gamma and contrast are off. So I will need to play with that until i get the settings I am suppose to have.

[P4inz]

Try to fiddle around with the settings just a bit, till your preference is reached.

But as I said, if it really does not charm your eye at all at any setting, RMA it.

I can tell you my settings just for trying out: Brightness: 85, Contrast: 25, Mode: User, Overdrive: Extreme