LCD strange "waves" of whiteness.

[Svarog]

I got a strange issue since of late.

In ANY game when i look up and down in a dark area or at night, i get these strange "waves" of whiteness. It looks a bit like when an LCD starts bleeding. Except when the image is still it's true black. For example the Skyrim loading screens backgrounds are true black.

Anyways, i tried to record it with my camera but it doesn't really pick it up. So i edited a screenshot out of Skyrim. I made it worse than it is, but it's roughly how it looks when moving up and down looking into dark areas.



My monitor is a EIZO FlexScan S2231W, connected with a DVI-D Single Link cable. (It's an oldy i know)

I only started noticing it a couple of weeks ago. And as i said, a black image is true black, so there isn't any bleeding.

Anyone experienced this or know about it?

 

[Coxey]

I get the exact same problem.

I noticed it happened when I upgraded my GPU to a 7870. I sent it back thinking it was faulty however the follow 2 models did the same. Whenever I put my old GPU in, they disappear.

I tried changing drivers, cables and monitors with the 7870 but get same issue just less or more visible.

Which leads me on to think it isn't the GPU itself.

I am curios as to whether anyone has fixed this issue before.

Edit: thinking back when I directly hooked up my TV with HDMI the problem was -almost- completely gone, it still apparent.
After a few months now it rarely bugs me.

 

[Svarog]

Well if that's true i gotta get my GTX 580 back somehow. : /

 

[alienware]

I had this on my Acer monitor but it turned out to be the cable.

Have you tried changing drivers?

 

[Coxey]

Well if that's true i gotta get my GTX 580 back somehow. : /

Despite having the identical visual issue, hardware is hardware - your cause may be completely different. I'm just sharing what I've tried - try and get a hold of different cables, connectors or monitors. (I had to fork out on most of that, but some people have spares here and there to improvise with).

 

[Svarog]

So far i tried:

- Drivers.
- Other cable (was also DVI-D Single Link).
- Other monitor.
- GTX 285 from other PC.

It's still happening. Now it could still be the cable since it's the same one, i would have to buy one to try it. I will get a hold of a DVI-I Dual Link, see if that matters.

If not then it could be motherboard perhaps? Doesn't matter then since i'm going to upgrade to Haswell.

 

[alienware]

It's some sort of interference IMO. So that could be a bad earth which could be your PSU or something.

 

[Svarog]

I don't believe SeaSonic got shitty earthing.

 

[alienware]

Me neither but you never know. Seasonics do fail (not that I'm saying it's that).

 

[Svarog]

Still havn't figured out the problem.

Strangely enough it also happens on a completely different PC. It does have an old monitor aswell.

I also tried to power the monitor directly from the wall instead of a bar, but that didn't make any difference.

Also tried a DVI-I Dual Link cable but that didn't make any difference either.

So i'm starting to think it's simply my monitor. Not happy with that since i also gotta spend a good 800 Euro for my upcoming Haswell upgrade :S

 

[Svarog]

Looks like it's the monitor after all. It seems to be the CCFL's.

I just tried my PC on my Samsung LED TV and the problem doesn't occur there.

 

[vorticalbox]

tried v-sync on? i get that on my 7770 with v-sync if off.

 

[Svarog]

Having V-Sync On since i was born.

Gonna get myself an EIZO FlexScan EV2436W

 

[CreativeMind]

Try turning the monitors brightness level up. One of my LEDs display this horizontal "wave like" flickering at lower brightness levels. In this case, I'm guessing it's either broken or made of cheap comonents or by design didn't go through any sort of quality test.