[SOLVED] 1440p monitor looks less sharp than my 1080p monitor ?

[DDTM19]

Hi,

I recently noticed that my 1080p monitor on the windows desktop and other applications such as Google Chrome and Discord looks better than my 1440p monitor on those same applications (It's sharper, more clear, and on my 1440p monitor it just looks kind of blah).

I'm not sure what's wrong with it (or if anything's wrong with this and it's normal)

Can anyone help with this?
Thanks!

 

[Colif]

are the monitors the same screen sizes?

what make/models are they?

 

[sizzling]

Do you have Windows set to the correct resolution for both? If Windows is set to 1080p on both screens then the native 1080p monitor would look better.

 

[DDTM19]

Do you have Windows set to the correct resolution for both? If Windows is set to 1080p on both screens then the native 1080p monitor would look better.

Yep, I do.

 

[DDTM19]

are the monitors the same screen sizes?

what make/models are they?

They're both 27 inches, both AOC brand, 1440p one is the AOC Q27G2G4 (144hz), 1080p one is the AOC 27G1G4(also 144hz)

 

[721831101]

Better get some trustful brands
Do do those spec by lower quality

 

[sizzling]

Better get some trustful brands
Do do those spec by lower quality

AOC are a good brand and do some good monitors.

 

[sizzling]

They're both 27 inches, both AOC brand, 1440p one is the AOC Q27G2G4 (144hz), 1080p one is the AOC 27G1G4(also 144hz)

It should not make a difference but it doesn’t hurt to try simple things. Can you try different cables or swapping cables? Are you using display port on both?

 

[DDTM19]

It should not make a difference but it doesn’t hurt to try simple things. Can you try different cables or swapping cables? Are you using display port on both?

Yep, using DP on both. They're both running on the cable that came with the monitors, but I just switched them and there was no difference in picture quality on either.

 

[LORYT699]

1st of all check if they are at the maximum quality. 2nd check the space between the pixels(2k monitor should have 1/3 less of distance), check if are running some software that modify your monitor settings(also if you have nvidia gpu check if is actived the nis or the option on the nvidia panel, same on amd) and check your monitor settings, check for last if your monitor is 1440p or 1440i.
If you have done all of that, and all is fine you can last do some test with the ufo test, if it does not give you any result idk what could it be

 

[hang-the-9]

Hi,

I recently noticed that my 1080p monitor on the windows desktop and other applications such as Google Chrome and Discord looks better than my 1440p monitor on those same applications (It's sharper, more clear, and on my 1440p monitor it just looks kind of blah).

I'm not sure what's wrong with it (or if anything's wrong with this and it's normal)

Can anyone help with this?
Thanks!

Turn off any scaling you may be doing, you are probably using scaling of 125 or even 150% on the 1440 screen.

 

[DDTM19]

Turn off any scaling you may be doing, you are probably using scaling of 125 or even 150% on the 1440 screen.

I had scaling to 125% on, so I set it to 100%, which fixed it. Thanks!