Question Overclock on QNIX 2710 monitor

[dennisresevfan]

Does anyone know exactly what just happened? I overclocked my QNIX2710 a while ago. To 96Hz vs the rated maximum of 60Hz. There were no obvious issues at the time and games ran fine at 96 Hz.

Today, Resident Evil 4 remake seemed to make the monitor freak out when switching to the 96Hz refresh rate mode in game.

After I stopped playing I used youtube with no obvious issues and opened up Crunchyroll.

With youtube and Crunchyroll active, my screen did something very odd again.

I've gone back to 60Hz for now.

Various strange things happened. With Crunchyroll, it was that the screen suddenly had "snow" on it. Like every second pixel was white static.

Earlier on, it did something similar but with vertical lines on the screen. And at another point it was like it went into one of the old monitor modes with a lower number of colours. So things were showing up weirdly pink and green.

I'm just curious why it suddenly freaked out today when it was seemingly fine at 96Hz before now. And what on earth it's actually doing.

Any ideas? I have a 4K WOLED coming in a few weeks so I can live with 60Hz for now. In all cases when switching back to 60Hz it fixed the issues.

 

[dennisresevfan]

Update: The issue is even weirder than I thought. If I'm in youtube, no problem. But whenever I go to a page on Crunchyroll with a video player on it...

The screen immediately does the same thing every time. Like a screen full of grey static, except I can see everything I should be seeing through the static.

I found that if I then change the refresh rate of the monitor (it doesn't matter if it's from 96 Hz to 60 Hz or the other way around) everything looks normal again even if I play the video.

What the hell is going on?

Also despite that the entire screen is affected, if I close the browser that also seems to immediately fix the issue.

 

[dennisresevfan]

I have an update for anyone with the same problem. I assume the temporary glitch during RE4 remake was unrelated. The Crunchyroll issue appears to have been due to HDCP.

I have NO god damn idea why the SAME monitor linked up to a 980 Ti via Dual link DVI had no problems but when it was linked to a 4090 by display port to Dual link DVI adaptor, suddenly it didn't count as HDCP compliant? Or perhaps that's not exactly what the issue is. It doesn't give an error message after all, just a snowy screen.

Anyway, I requested "HDCP OFF" firmware for the adaptor. After installing that the videos are playing just fine.