Fix Monitor Ghosting in a Few Simple Steps 

And this is exactly what I've been searching for a while now

Thanks, fixed my monitor's ghosting but contrary to your advice I got rid of it by turning my monitor's overdrive setting from normal to off. Worth a try.

Overdrive setting: Medium is the best. High brings in black artifacts

In my MSI Optix VA, "fastest" is also the best for the reaction time setting and the setting Night Mode can make a big difference, basically the stronger you set it the brighter the background becomes and it reduces the smearing by quite a bit.

bro your the man i have been having some ghosting issues with my aoc monitor not the same as vid but the same settings took away the ghosting its fantastic

THANK YOU SO MUCH! THIS IS THE BEST WAY TO FIX GOHSTING! I have a AOC C24G2AE and the problem is fixed! I truned down my brightness to get rid of the white overlay and it's not visible anmore! Thanks alot!

This solved all my problems almost instantly. Thanks

This is great advice for cheap VA monitors like the GNV29CB. The shadows control setting was called "Blacklevel" and overdrive was called "Response time" on my monitor, but it was no issue. Important to mention that you can sort of offset the dull look from changing the shadows/blacklevel by changing things like the brightness setting in your GPU's control panel. Careful not to take it too far though, otherwise you'll just offset the changes you made.

Aim for shadow control 55 instead of 60 (use software of the monitor if possible), and overdrive medium instead of strong (strong makes black trails)

I have a Redmi g24 monitor but it has a really high ghosting. When I was using it I changed it's black level to 0% because at first it was looking washed out color. Then after watching your video I increased my black level to 100% it significantly reduced my ghosting. Like 90% of my ghosting is gone. Thanks man.

Noticed ghosting on my monitor, it felt like i was playing with motion blur , i turned overdrive on and its a completely different experience, it feels like I'm actually using my 144hz

lol for me there is overdrive (boost) it's past strong on the AOC monitor it literally makes ghosting nonexistant i can track the aliens easily with my eyes and all but... it makes the screen way darker son I'm using strong with some adjustments of brightness, gamma 2 and contrast and it looks feels way better than default

So im running my new moniter off of my laptop and noticed an insane amount of ghosting. I thought that it might just be that I've hooked it via HDMI into a laptop not specifically designed for moniters, but then my friend tried out his moniter and it worked way better, so I search up how to fix it, clicked the first video, and solved the issue. Thanks G. Ill definitely be sticking around.

Hi I don't usually leave comments but I wanted to say thank you! I accidentally turned AMA (the benq setting that decreases ghosting) to full and didn't realize it and for months have been getting corona artifacts and had no idea what it was. It was driving me insane! I didn't know how to describe it (as it's obviously not ghosting) but ended up accidentally finding this video. Thanks again

I remember when u had only 1k subs. Good job man.

Great video ! Exactly what I needed. I ordered this monitor and it’s not coming until next month but I heard a lot of bad reviews because of ghosting and blurring

Thank you so much!! Really high quality videos and its very helpful! You just gained a sub man keep the great content up!

Just want to say thanks so much - this helped me solve FIFA ghosting / motion blur (Xbox One / FC24) on my AOC monitor!

Thank you so much, after a lot of hours of searching for the fix, you were the one who helped me. You just gained a like and a subscribe. Thank you so much again, have a great day.

Thanks, its a better than the vanilla settings. everything is brighter but better than that ghosting. still gonna get a new one

also people should try to switch between DP1.2 and DP1.1, this fixed it for me. edit: in the monitor menu - OSD Setup tab

I was wondering if the small amount of ghosting I'm seeing on my new monitor was bad or not so I checked this video out and turns out you're using the 27 inch version of my Dell 32DGF as the baseline to aim for so I guess it's not bad lol. I was just surprised that my "extreme" setting looks better without any noticable reduction in other areas. extreme mode basically eliminates the ghosting but I'm not seeing a downside so far

God bless your soul dude,you really solved my problem.

This is only one tunings set that actually helps with ghosting so far! Thank you so much! But increasing shadow made a new issue for screen being kinda 'misty' with high brightness. I have AOC C27G2AE/BK and there are setting for colors i found to solve the misty issue. In GMENU: shadow control:60 game color:10 brightness:40 contrast:50 color temp:normal overdrive:medium gamma:1 low blue mode:multimedia eco mode:internet I have amd card. So it was amd software programm for me to tune rest. For nvidia i guess you'll find similar color settings in nvidia panel. Its for global display settings. Custom color setting: color temperature:7100 brightness:- 2 hue:0 contrast:88 saturation:100 Without last part of settings it doesn't look that fine to me. Probably this will help somebody in need. Update: apparently you cant solve ghosting on this model completely, its just impossible due to VA, it will be always there. Had to sell this shit myself cuz store didn't want to refund shipment back money. Just dont buy this garbage monitor, its absolute trash, im not speaking about all AOC monitor, this particular one.

People should know, there’s two different response times. There’s gtg (grey to grey) and mprt. You want both to be as low as possible but gtg is the one that matters a lot. Most cheap monitors are referring to the mprt response time when they say 1ms (and usually why they don’t list both or specify) some monitors just say 1ms and they don’t say gtg or mprt. Some monitors will have 1ms mprt and like 15ms gtg (just arbitrary example). I know bh photo is usually very good about listing all/accurate specs on monitors/items. Just make sure you’re getting low response times in both areas (my monitor is 1ms mprt and 3ms gtg which is good but 1ms is better)

Weird thing on my LG monitor is that when I set the response rate to “faster” there’s more trailing 🤔

I just want a 1080p 60hz monitor with minimal ghosting and good blacks (at least 2500:1) without purposely washing shit out... Are my standards too high lol.

I always turn motion blur off in games because I already have motion blur in the form of a ghosting 60 hertz monitor. 😅

IPS is the way to go

Can you do one for TVs that have pretty bad ghosting on consoles?

Does tn panel are the best for ghosting ? Better than OLED?

This is the best video explaining and teaching how to solve the ghosting. Gonna fav this. Thx a lot, bro. U really did a great community job 👍

thanks i and i have an aoc c24g1 and it has a lot of ghosting but thanks to you it's almost zero

Recently I came across a video and I want to say about my monitor. I have an AOC AGON AG271QG which has a built-in G -Sync physical processor. I played around with the settings and saw that all these highlights do not affect it, that is, everything is set up almost perfectly from the factory, the blur effect is minimal.

Aha! Thank you. I just got a VG32VQ1B as my first monitor above 1080p and was loving it, but once I started playing Cyberpunk 2077 ultra everything I was getting REALLY horrible ghosting. Without knowing what it actually was, I'd set the Overdrive to 100! Turning it off solved the problem immediately. Thanks! I really wish they'd include a warning about these features that they can cause side effects.

Just saved me from throwing monitor out of the window thanks

I was trying to play hogwarts legacy but all of the ghosting really irritated me, thanks for this vid, I fixed it :)

Someone needs to make a driver level software display overdrive for VA displays. The software will boost dark level transitions at high refresh rates. This will be done by giving a slightly higher RGB value to the display for dark level transitions when at high fps.

Thanks for this, played around with my settings and got what I wanted

thank you very much, i ignore review and bought this monitor because it was -+$30 off from -+150 in my country

thanks this fix my aoc 24g2spe never thought that adjusting gamma and shadow control helps with smearing problems

Fun thing, atleast for me, (AoC C27G2ZE/BK) is that this AoC monitor has a bad time rendering Dark pixels and colors, meaning that the more bright your monitor is, the less smearing and lag there is, it will also make the game feel smoother since the monitor can render everything faster and better. atm I'm running: Contrast 55, Brightness 65, gamma 1, RGB User Mode - Red 43, Green 46 and Blue 51, Shadow Control sits at 50 and Overdrive at Strong. These settings are what works for me, I would like to go brighter and use shadow control at 60 and move overdrive to Medium (since Shadow COntrol 60 + Overdrive strong causes black artifacts which makes reading harder in gaming), though my eyes can't actually take all that brightness in causing eye strain and pain which makes it harder to play games as well.

Thanks for the input, i have a different brand of monitor but it someohow lessen the ghosting by doing these some settings.

holy sht, I dont know whats worse: backlight bleed on IPS or horrific black things because of VA ghosting 🤢 Why do monitor companies release products with these problems at all?! I just wanted a 1440p 144Hz monitor but I cant find any because they either have bleed and black looks grey or black smearing...

For my Dell 144hz monitor, I had to set response time from "super fast" to "normal" to get rid of ghosting

I'm bummed with this ghosting shit because I came from an old LG 34" Ultrawide IPS monitor to a really expensive 240hz 4k Samsung Neo G8 and with the old LG I didn't have ghosting and with this new expensive monitor I do. SMH!

I have that dell and I see it happening on valorant when aiming as well. Mine is the 27 inch.

You're a lifee saver man, thank you very much

Man, I have the same monitor but nothing changes after switching to strong or medium, I see at you ghosting disappears in strong overdrive but to me it don't changes anything at all

When i set overdrive to boost, it turns off automatically when i shut down computer and i have to set it every time i turn pc on. What should be a trouble?

I use overdrive extreme and set contrast to 10. Shadows are at 0 and brightness is maxed. Brighter pixels have less ghosting and for playing on a Xbox series X it helps. Makes the game look like shit,but I don’t play games for good graphics. 😂 just to broke to afford a good pc for cod and Fortnite

My samsung g7 240Hz have litte bit ghosting when I max out overdrive but I lower it and screen is not fast like before but feels smother overall, one thing I learned in this vid is blacks effect it too and I did not know that

Simple method: You need to ensure the refresh rate is similar to what your game supports. I use Titan Army VA Panel 24inch 144hz monitor. For example, I play on PS5 and use my monitor that have 144hz refresh rate. It will ghosting no matter what because I can't control the settings of the game to accept 144hz (default it's 60hz). On PC, it's easy. Go to Windows Display Settings and set it to 144hz. On the Graphics Card settings also set it to 144hz. Zero Ghosting effect.

I paid 200$ for mine 165Hz 1Ms Adaptive Sync and etc but that smearing hurts my eyes

🤔I have an Acer Nitro 27' VG270 and what should i do to reduve input lag and response time(ghost,blur) ???

I have very bad ghosting. I can see those "white" otlines very strongly in minecraft and cs go for an example

Thanks I have acer ed273u pbmiipx with very bad ghosting and smearing in text scroll or moving, I turned off HDR and lightblue on then I raised gamma to 2.6 reduced ghosting or smearing

What is the best settings for Alienware 360hz for competitive games please 🙏

I have a similar sort of effect when moving my mouse in game, using a controller everything is silky smooth but going back to mouse it almost looks like the edges/corners of graphics rocks walls tree etc are wobbling

Thank you for explaining it so well

i reccomend returning your monitor under warranty if it looks like this. got an old c27jg samsung that has 0 ghosting on all three ufos. got a new wqhd yesterday. man that SUCKED!! some aoc "gaming" monitor. so much ghosting it cant be used for motion pictures even. let less gaming at 144 fps... looks like luck of the draw on these low price monitors. wierd that they make this crap level of screens at all.

I have a laptop and dunno how to get rid of ghosting. Please help :/

Buy VA panel to get deep blacks and then turn on shadow control to get grey blacks :( better just buy IPS and get normal blacks without ghosting

Can’t overdrive ruin panels?

All i gotta say is dont buy a Acer Nitro XFA243Y Sbiipr 23.8” 165Hz Nothing fixes the ghosting . It's awful.

Hey i may have a slight better aoc monitor the urs but still 1080p 144hz. But when i was playing with the monitor setting and turned off adaptive sync i got a secret setting in the overdrive section called boost. This will almost eliminate all the ghosting effect. But the brightness get reduced as well the adaptive sync will be off.

thanks man, this helped me a lot

For those who does not know how to have better performance (remove motion blueness) this is the way : It is indeed a VA panel, VA panels does have aprox. 5ms not 1. This monitor has the ability to change in 1 (not even close to 1 2-3) that means it will have motion blur and maybe a ghosting (it depends even more in the response time [chose faster RT]) . Thank me later. So play with more MS and do not even thing to judge a VA monitor! Perfect price for a perfect monitor. Thank you again LG, and thank me later!

I bought an asus 280hz and theres really weird interlacing like vertical lines, I dont know If I messed up a setting or something, but it didn't have these problems originally, I tried resetting the settings and updating graphics drivers, trying different cord all types of stuff nothing fixed it

Omg I use this monitor and this very helpful! Thx!!!

6:42 how do I fix the black?

thank you so much it works greetings

You didn't show us how to fix it

tenkiu for de information broder :))

I tried these tweaks but it doesnt seem to help. The gane thats causing me the most issues is team fortress 2. Is there any other way of fixing it? Or should i just bite the bullet return and upgrade to the 24g2.

With UFO test, i saw my AOC works the best with medium overdrive, if i go higher it's worse for darker background.

Does it matter to shot in 60, 120 or 240hz for testing in my phone? Because in 60 apparently I don't see any ghosting, just in slow mo modes..

6:21 if everything is paper white bright you can't see ghosting, big brain

1:00 "so you can actually see the smearing" Me: Seeing nothing other than a monitor which is not in focus Me: He must be talking about the smears on his glasses cuz thats the only thing in focus... xD

I just boost my brightness from 50 to 60 in Nvidia panel and BANG ! THe black ghosting was gone on my Benq ( then just drop lighting -2 )

I get quite a bit of ghosting on Call of duty Warzone, but I'm thinking it might be due to me using DLSS, although I'm not entirely sure. i will sometimes see trails from the birds that fly around in the sky, or people who are off in the distance, leaving a trail behind them. However, the trail is really annoying and I'm not quite sure how to get rid of it without needing to disable DLSS, since I'm playing on 1440p and want the best fps possible. I do have a 30 series card, so I dont think my gpu would be the issue here, in regard to it being compatible with DLSS technology, I'm just asking if you have any answers as to what settings I can try to tamper with to get rid of it.

How do you fix this if it’s happening on a laptop?

Nobody buying a new product at the prices they charge should be dealing with this. It's a shame, and an abuse from the manufacturers putting out products where you can basically see 2 frames in 1. Same about light bleeding which according to them it's "acceptable" and "normal". Same about flickering. Same about discolouring along the panel. Same about viewing angles. All of that in the same VA monitor.

At the end the image looks horrible with those black circles effect.

hey man, solid video! just wanted to know tho, have u found a fix yet for the weird artifacts around black or dark areas at 6:37? after some time it can actually be really straining for the eyes

I have a Legion 5 exhibiting a trait I perceived as ghosting in the beginning but turned out it was not! Seemed like during fast panning the image didn't change smoothly instead it seemed like the previous image remained there for milliseconds! Thoughts?

i have asus f15 tuf and i cant find any monitor settings except fps are there other tools to adjust overdrive?

i have no overdrive setting, but i do have a response time setting with "off, high, med, low"

Sir I bought this monitor and change the settings according to you to reduce ghosting. But the color become whitewash. Is there a way to balance things?

Thank you very much for the tip, I sent it back my LG 32GN650-B cause too much ghosting in internet (scrolling), games & videos! Blacklevel ! On 70, I don't no why but it has become imperceptible, as the LG OSD doesn't allow the gamma easily, I did it by Windows I don't know if it works for monitors of another brand ?

Hi, this seems quite good for casual gamers that dont want to sacrifice a lot picture quality from TN panel i've had my own situation now, im planning to buy this cheap monitor since im on limited budget and wanna try some 144hz experience, but im quite worry about the ghosting from VA panel here. It is still worth it if i move from crap 20inch 60hz TN panel LG 20MK600 to this AOC g2490vx? I do plays fps games a lot but just for fun with my friend, and not competitive scene Hope you can give some thought bro, thanks

I have a smart samsung monitor tv monitor, and i cant turn on overdrive on it. How can i still fix it?

i have a question: my shadow control and game colour are in grey meaning i can’t use them how do i enable them?

WOW! thx

ty man

What app are you using I have a victus laptop and iam suffering from ghosting

This is random information but if you have a asus monitor and you turn trace free down all the way to 0 it will get rid of it completely.

OMG all this time i thought it was a problem with my GPU, playing games and seeing this horrible stretched like shadow coming of objects.

Hi sir. did u try to use display port and unlock the 165hz of the AOC 2490VX

So if i take VA it’s not a big deal ?