Question Help with settings on my new OLED monitor ?

[Conure.]

I bought my first OLED monitor, an Alienware AW3423DWF and i have a few questions please:

1. Can anyone please give me a guide to the best settings for this monitor?

2. When do i need to change settings for HDR ? do i change it from the monitor/nvidia software/in game? and how do i do that ?

3. Any tips to keep my monitor free from burn-in ?

4. All my life i never really changed settings after the first time i bought a monitor and now i understand that for different uses i need to change settings but i don't have any knowledge about this things , what is the most important thing for me to change or can i use the same settings for all uses ?

 

[mihen]

I forget the settings I used on mine. The most important thing is to use the pixel refresher consistently. There may be ghost images, but that isn't burn in. That may be caused because your monitor is not set bright enough.
For HDR, you set this in the display settings for the monitor. That should be all you need to do.

 

[gamerk316]

HDR support is typically a setting you set once, then when Windows or the game enables the monitor will switch over to an HDR profile. Nowadays I just leave HDR on in Windows all the time and don't worry about it.

I've been running with OLEDs for a while now, and my big lessons learned are:

• Dark mode is a godsend; those taskbars will burn in eventually, making them a dark color goes a long way to making Chrome (or whatever) not kill your display after a few years
• Black desktop background with as few icons as possible is good; certainly avoid a static brightly colored desktop
• Minimize the taskbar. This is what killed my first OLED (LG B6P)
• If possible, turn down the OLED backlight. Trust me; you'll adjust to 50 after a day, and not blasting the backlight full blast will go a long way to longevity
• Turn off the display when away for any length of time; do not rely on a desktop/auto dim feature, as enough apps suppress it to cause problems

Burn in is less of a concern then it used to be; I don't worry about in-game elements causing problems anymore. But basic care is still required, and even new OLEDs can burn in static elements in a year or two if you don't take at least some preventive actions.