Faint vertical lines in some grey shades : do you see it too ?

[Pierre990429]

Hello all,
I know there have already been topics concerning the G750's screen. I'd just want to know if others are also seeing a pattern of dark vertical lines in some shades of grey or sometimes other dark colors.
It's only visible when you look close to the screen. I have a G750JH (so a 780M) and I am using the stock 311.83 drivers (which are working well otherwise and have never crashed).
I got an AUO matte screen (non-3D).

I tried the 326.80 and 327.23 drivers : with these, the effect seemed different : not really vertical lines, but more a "grid" effect. So I reverted.
Again, it's only visible on some specific colors/shades.
It has, I think, nothing to do with the "other" line problem (horizontal "waves") where people just created a custom refresh rate for the monitor. (for example, I'm at 70 Hz)

Yeah, I have sensitive eyes.

So, is it the screen, the GPU, or the drivers ?

It's a pity I like the screen of my 2005 Dell XPS M170 much more...

Waiting for your feedback.

[Rahul1]

I too see these lines, this is very bad. So expensive machine and a bad screen.Any fix?

[hmscott]

Rahul1 wrote:
I too see these lines, this is very bad. So expensive machine and a bad screen.Any fix?

Move your eyes further away from the screen...the laptop / built-in keyboard paradigm has us sitting too close to the screen.

I don't see the lines, but I use a wireless keyboard and trackpad, so I don't use the built in keyboard and sit right on top of the screen.

Would you put your desktop monitor that close to your eyes?, or do you push it back further from your eyes when you put the keyboard and mouse between you and the screen?

If you sit as close to your monitor as your laptop screen, you would start to see the individual distinct elements that make up the smooth image you see when sitting back further.

[KoolASUS]

yeah, some old Alienware M11 models seemed to have a similar problem. (?)

but nothing since. not a single complaint for the M17 or M18 series. right ?

Rahul, are your lines vertical ("AUO' type) or horizontal ( "ChiMei" type). Either way, the latest drivers from Nvidia transform the lines into a "grid". It's up to you. Personally, I felt the "grid" was worse to my eyes.

No other fix, sorry. (and probably never, since it's a hardware issue)

[hmscott]

KoolASUS wrote:
yeah, some old Alienware M11 models seemed to have a similar problem. (?)
but nothing since. not a single complaint for the M17 or M18 series. right ?

KoolASUS. it makes me wonder what is going on with that. I have looked at a lot of Alienware screens, and they look no better than the Asus screens. Are people more likely to complain with a reasonably priced laptop vs. a stratospherically over-priced laptop?

Doing a search on their Alienware forum turns up no hits for "vertical lines screen" or "horizontal lines screen", whereas on the rest of the DELL forums, Laptop in specific, there are 1477 hits for "vertical lines screen" and 749 hits for "horizontal lines screen". Odd.

Comparing price between the Alienware and Asus config, same parts vs same parts, gives one pause - back away slowly from the Alienware purchase page, and quickly browse to the Asus newegg.com page 🙂

An Alienware M17 configured as close to the Asus G750JZ-DS71 as possible: $3399, vs $2269 for the Asus G750JZ-DS71 from newegg. And, there isn't even a RAID0 boot option available for the M17 from Alienware, so I couldn't configure an M17 similar to the Asus G750JZ-XS72, which is only $2799 on newegg.com

So the Alienware config is $1100 more than the Asus config.

Push back another foot from the Asus screen, and the faint lines disappear out of focus, and the 1100 greenbacks come into focus 🙂

[KoolASUS]

whatever

[hmscott]

KoolASUS, enjoy your Alienware laptop, really, it's awesome.

Wait, don't you have a G750JH? 🙂

[KoolASUS]

oops, someone edited his somehow aggressive post several times..... tsk tsk. too bad I didn't save the mht file for a good laugh.

[hmscott]

KoolASUS wrote:
oops, someone edited his somehow aggressive post several times..... tsk tsk. too bad I didn't save the mht file for a good laugh.

KoolASUS, relax, it's all in fun. 🙂

I always edit my posts to add more info, correct errors, and make my explanations clearer.

If you are quick, sometimes you can catch my early drafts, and they can be funny 🙂