AW2518H, No Sharpness setting?

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Hi All, I recently picked up an Alienware AW2518H monitor. At the price I was hoping that 1080P native would be fine for web browsing, but compared to my other 1080P screen (and definitely compared to my 1440P screen), text seems a touch blurry.. almost like having my 1440P at 1080P. In fact, my 1440P showing (non-native) 1080P almost looks better! I've tried multiple clear type settings, display scaling is at 100%, graphics drivers are updated (same drivers that are running my Dell UP2516D, which looks gorgeous in 1440P). Tried running only the AW2518H as a single monitor.. but compared to my Viewsonic 1080P the rendering on this screen just looks somewhat like poop. I looked at YouTube video where a user showed the On screen Display of their monitor (AW2518HF .. which is the 'F' varianct that was Free-Sync as opposed to G-Sync I believe?) and their was a Sharpness setting. Here's the screen I saw from the YouTube video, showing a Sharpness setting:   And here's my monitors OSD.. with no 'Display' section to speak of:   I've downloaded the Driver for the monitor (which ran an executable, but didn't enable more options), and the Alienware Gaming  Monitor Control Center (which only gives me lighting customization. Side note.. ironically  the Alienware Gaming Monitor Control Center is one of the blurrier looking apps.. lol!) Any ideas why I'm not seeing this option? Bumping up the sharpness directly on the monitor is all I can think of at this point to not hate myself. I overall love Dell monitors.. and for the price I thought I was going to get the customization and quality even though only 1080P. I've seen 1080P native look excellent (even on my own monitor in the next room).. but here it looks like it almost look 1080P non-native, with its slight blur on some text elements. TL:DR; Where is the sharpness setting on my AW2518H?

DELL-Chris M · Answer

They are in fact different monitors with different scaler IC boards (RealTek versus Nvidia), therefore, the Menu OSD options are different. You should compare the Nvidia G-Sync AW2518H OSD Menu versus the AMD FreeSync AW2518HF OSD Menu in their respective online User's Guides.

Read this, "Policy: AW2518H and AW2518HF".

Tesla1856 · Answer

You bought at 25-inch monitor that is only 1080p ? Why?

24": 1080p looks fine, but I would say that is max

25-30": Move to 2K for acceptable PPI/DPI

32": For these big-boys, go for 4K resolution ... if you want good PPI.

And you want IPS-panels for good colors, contrast, and viewing angles (not TN-panels).

You should be using (digital) DisplayPort . How can you Sharpen perfect digital ?

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