I regret buying new monitors... really...

[Faris.S]

Hello guys, what's up?

okay let's get to the topic straight, so I bought Dell U2417H when I came back home.
I tested everything and it was all dandy.... until I found a disk in my box which turns out to be the drivers for the extra USBs in the monitor.
I was like meh let's install it, and then troubles started...
the fullscreen games take ages to switch to desktop, F***ing 1min every time! "not 1min but around 10seconds, yet it feels like plenty of years and it's annoying as hell!"


anyway, is there a way to set things back to normal? or solve it at least?

P.S don't tell me to switch my games into borderless screen mode... colors feel strange in window mode for odd reasons...

[Mooshi]

General rule is to toss those in the garbage and download drivers directly from the source. I'd try to uninstall and look for them off Dell's site.

[Faris.S]

I tried that first, but it turns out.....
THE CD DRIVER IS NEWER THAN THE ONE IN DELL WEBSITE ITSELF

 

@Mooshi

 

idk if I should freak out, or uninstall this weird driver...
 

Edit:
question is, how am I gonna uninstall the drivers?
 

[Glenwing]

4 minutes ago, Faris.S said:

I tried that first, but it turns out.....
THE CD DRIVER IS NEWER THAN THE ONE IN DELL WEBSITE ITSELF

 

@Mooshi

 

idk if I should freak out, or uninstall this weird driver...
 

Edit:
question is, how am I gonna uninstall the drivers?
 

If Dell Display Manager doesn't appear in Control Panel -> Programs and Features, go to Device Manager and uninstall drivers from there.

 

Monitors don't need drivers, even for USB hubs or whatever. Just ignore discs that come with monitors.

[Faris.S]

tried to do that just a moment ago...
the issue is still going on :\
I'm gonna test something with another monitor

Edit:

apparently, my samsung SyncMasterSA100 beats my new 1080p IPS monitor....
there's something really wrong...

[Glenwing]

27 minutes ago, Faris.S said:

tried to do that just a moment ago...
the issue is still going on :\
I'm gonna test something with another monitor

Edit:

apparently, my samsung SyncMasterSA100 beats my new 1080p IPS monitor....
there's something really wrong...

Have you restarted the computer since then?

[Faris.S]

Yes, I had to restart it when I deleted Dell Manager and its driver.
and I made sure that the driver is uninstalled but nothing seems to work?

I tried messing with the monitor setting itself, and found response time and turn it fast
still no different? I have no idea if the issue is with the monitor or the PC itself?

[Glenwing]

Just now, Faris.S said:

Yes, I had to restart it when I deleted Dell Manager and its driver.
and I made sure that the driver is uninstalled but nothing seems to work?

I tried messing with the monitor setting itself, and found response time and turn it fast
still no different? I have no idea if the issue is with the monitor or the PC itself?

Try unplugging the monitor from power for a minute.

[Faris.S]

 Hmmm, I did that too... sadly that didn't solve the problem

however, after plenty of testing, I found something really interesting.
the following games Overwatch, Battlefield 4 and 3 takes a long time to switch between fullscreen mode to desktop while payday 2 and old games such as counterstrike doesn't have these issues at all "even when I lower the frames rate to both overwatch and Battlefield 4".

this excludes the driver issue and the monitor itself issues as well "since deleting the drivers didn't help at all or messing with the monitor setting or resetting them"
any idea what could that mean?

Edit: Could it be the sync between the monitor and the GPU is the problem? is that even a thing?


Edit2: the issue is solved by reinstalling my GPU driver, it turns out that the sync between my monitor and the GPU is the problem, not the monitor evil CD that started all this hassle which triggered some windows update that screwed everything up


Thank you all for answering, I appreciate it