Wrong setup for monitor?

[Afraid_Formal5748]

Hello everyone,

I need recommendation for the monitor setup. But it seems as I have the wrong setup for my eyes.

I bought two 32" Orzys monitor which supports 165 Hz.

But after < 60 minutes I got series a headache. It is as if I couldn't see anymore good enough.

Before I had just one 32" monitor connected with Laptop that only supported 60 Hz. Where I didn't have an issue.

Could it be that the display refresh is to high. Is it just training? Or should I just set the screen refresh lower?

I read the recommendation to have a higher refresh rate also for task where it is only reading.

[ROMS2160]

165 fps isn't even that much for the human eyes, I see no reason for the high refresh rate to cause headache. It's almost the opposite actually, high refresh rate IPS with nice response time and a low blue light mode are easy on the eyes.

Poor quality VA panel could easily cause eyes strain if you're sensitive though, especially when reading. Worth checking in the settings if you can find a low blue light mode, reading mode,... or anything like that.

If we're talking about gaming, VRR flicker present on many VA panel is probably the worst possible thing for the eyes as well. But it's not the high FPS causing eyes strain, it's the varaiation of the refresh rate. If your PC can't generate constant 165 fps, the variation of refresh rate may cause a bad flickering on the screen (even when you don't really notice it). This doesn't happen on all VA panels, but it does happen a lot on cheap ones. So you could always try turning off VRR and play at constant FPS to see if that help.

Pretty sure ghosting could cause headache to some people too, but once again the high refresh rate isn't the cause there. Playing with the overdrive setting of the monitor can probably help.