Hi all!
I have purchased yesterday this beast. It is equipped with a GTX 1070 and the latest 3 ms 144 Hz screen developed by AUO and ASUS.
The problem is however that ASUS forgot to tell about this to Nvidia so currently there is no driver available for it which works perfectly. I have tried reinstalling Windows and tried different drivers from ASUS website and NVidia websitte, all have the same issue.
The issue:
This panel (ASUS G703GI is using the same so that laptop is probably also affected) has 3 ms response time so the user should see no ghosting at all during his/her work in Windows or during gaming.
However that is only half true.
Working on the Windows desktop is smooth, no ghosting when I am moving windows around becaus of the 3 ms response time . However if I open a benchmark program like 3DMark or God forgive me...a game (!), then it does not feel 3 ms at all, more like 50-60 ms.
When I am clicking between the menus in 3DMark I can see black aftershadow/ghosting/blur effect when the animation (movement) is happening and same for gaming, in Rise of the Tomb Raider when I am turning the camera I see aftershadow/ghosting/blur.
Also when this happens the image also seems to become overfocused.
This is a software issue.
I have seen this same issue with the AUO 120 Hz panel used in previous ASUS laptops. However there it only happened when DX12 API was running, it was ok with DX11 titles. The only solution I have found there was to use driver 376.06 released by ASUS. That driver fixed the issue.
However with this new 3 ms panel it happens with both DX11 and DX12.
As I said I have tried different drivers (even 376.06 with a modded INF so it would install), but nothing fixed it.
Disabling G-Sync does not help.
The issue is the same which I describe here (At the end there are comparison screenshots) with the only difference that here it only happened with DX12:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcF7jE8HY28The problem maybe related to the new EDID used by this screen. The previous 7 ms 144 Hz AUO screens used an EDID which had timings for 60 hz and 144 hz, so the user was able to switch betweens these 2 refresh rates.
This new AUO panel however is using a different EDID which only allows 144 hz refresh rate.
Because of this I think that the screen controller in the driver is not working correctly and causing this problem.
Solution? Currently nothing.
When will a fixed driver be released? Probably never, unless ASUS get off their asses and file a report to NVidia and ask for a driver with a fix for this. This may take weeks or even months!
tl;dr: ONLY buy new ASUS laptops like the GL703GS and G703GI Chimera IF you don't mind that the Windows desktop has 3 ms response time, but in games the monitor feels like if it had 60 ms. Early adopters FTW.
Oh and yet again my question to ASUS Engineers:
HOW THE HELL CAN'T ANYONE NOTICE THIS AT ASUS ?Most of the users probably wont even notice this because they think it is "normal", but c'mon, an ASUS engineer should notice this issue while testing ... or ASUS was hoping that stupid users will think this is normal?
