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January 17th, 2022 03:00
S2721DGFA, dimming, fuzzy text
Hi,
I have owned a Dell S2721DGFA monitor for about a month now and I have searched everywhere trying to fix this issue with no luck. The issue im having which happens about 90% of the time is when viewing something darker on my monitor such as a application in dark mode or a webpage that is using a darker theme, the monitor will noticeably dim. Not a subtle slight shift but a significant darkening. It makes applications and webpages look awful, on top of this it makes text go kind of bold and really fuzzy on the edges. If I resize my application or window so there is something brighter in the background like my desktop wallpaper it corrects itself?
There are times I have noticed usually during the day were this problem just disappears and stops happening on the exact same webpage or application it was happening before? I checked all kinds of settings, night mode, reinstalled graphics drivers etc but still none the wiser. Showing the darkening is hard as I don't have a camera good enough to pick it up but I can kind of show the fuzzy text if you resize the images it's alot easier to see. Will post pictures and my pc specs below.
Fuzzy text (note in the picture it looks really suttle because my camera is bad but to the eye you see the text shift and go fuzzy as the screen darkens)
PC Specs-
- Windows 11 Home
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Six core CPU with 4.7GHz boost
- Motherboard: AMD B550 DDR4
- Memory: Ballistix 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C16 3600MHz
- Primary Drive: Blue SN550 1TB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 Solid State
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB Graphics Card


danny1337
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May 20th, 2022 06:00
Im still having this issue after all this time It's driving me nuts I also found another person online having the same problem and they've tryed everything...
Cook231
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July 16th, 2022 15:00
I'm pretty sure if you disable Smart HDR in your monitor settings it will resolve the issue. Cheers.
Judge_AtDell
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November 15th, 2022 10:00
Can confirm that it is the Smart HDR that is the problem. Turning it off though isn't really a solution as you'd have to toggle between HDR and SDR every time you wanted to go between content.
Try changing Smart HDR to Desktop mode; for me that seems to present the best looking text in dark-mode situations.
If i want to toggle between HDR/SDR mode, I'd prefer to toggle it off and on in Windows.