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To be perfectly clear, it took one (1) grand prix worth of play time on my monitor to make this happen. I've had my Acer Predator monitor for years with no burn-in from anything, and ~10 minutes with F-Zero caused this. Anyone else, or am I just unlucky?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Guessing your monitor has an IPS panel?

Persistent ghosting is always a factor on IPS displays, although your example looks a little pronounced than most. I have a Thinkpad with an IPS display and its ghosting is atrocious with specific color combinations: Dark greens and vibrant purples, if left static on the screen for a while. It should not be permanent, and causes no harm other than irritating you. I can get my screen to show slowly fading remnants of an image for upwards of 3 or 4 minutes, if I try hard enough. It gets more pronounced when the panel is hot.

I suspect this game happened to find the sweet (or sour) spot in the combination of foreground and background in the color gamut where image persistence is most noticeable on your particular panel. It should go away on its own after a few minutes, especially if you display something constantly changing with a wide luminosity variance (like a video) in that spot.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Since you can change the color of your car in the game and the car is burned it it would be probably best to change it to a color thst burned in less.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I've been using a black vehicle. Maybe I should switch to a lighter color. Maybe this is punishment for showing off ¯\_ (ツ) _/¯

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yep, it's an IPS monitor. I think your comment is right on the money. I noticed it starting to fade shortly after I posted. I'm just surprised how quickly it happened. I've had UI elements static on screen for hours with nothing noticeable. I suspect it has to do with the way the vehicles "vibrate" in this game. The constant switching on and off of that part of the display could have made it happen faster.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have IPS panels on my PC and it got into a shitty sleep/wake loop when I was away (I fucking blame discord!) and as it was going to sleep it had some distorted pixels right in the middle of the screen that persisted across reboot. I thought I had fried my GOU somehow; good to know IPS panels can behave this way

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I had this issue once and now I always turn off my monitor when I'm done instead of trusting my computer to sleep properly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I thought only old plasmas did that?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No - this is image retention, not burn in. Can happen with flashing objects such as the map in F Zero Advance if you emulate it on a display without adaptive blur.

It will fade in time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Few hours game-time here and no burn in at all.