Acer GN246L Colour problem?

[DraconicFire98]

So, i just got this monitor, and I've been having the hardest time setting it up during the past day, no matter what i do the colours look off...

the best i can describe it is "badly rendered minecraft video with the wrong colour profile in sony vegas"

or, it's kind of the "cinematic washed out but sort of saturated" look

 

not sure how i'm supposed to fiddle with this, I've tried HDMI and the included DVI cable, the colours look the same,

I've tried playing around with the OSD settings, not much of a difference, i lowered the brightness to 50% since I've heard people say that's the cause

I've tried the windows calibration program, looks better, but that's how i got the weird cinematic colour to it

I've tried messing around with the nvidia control panel, just makes things look worse

I've tried looking up actual ICC colour profiles, apparently those don't exist for this monitor

 

I've tried looking up a ton of troubleshooting problems, but no avail...

 

does this monitor just have terrible colour reproduction with no way around it? or are these colours what they're actually supposed to be and i'm just used to an older monitor with an extended saturation setting

I've got a 9 year old emachines monitor that looks just fine though, but that's 60hz and this is 144hz, so i can't just go back lol

 

EDIT: even weirder, this only seems to be for the desktop and whatever game is in windowed mode, anything using exclusive fullscreen has normal colours....