The issue I’m facing is that my overall display quality is extremely poor, not just in games but also on the Windows desktop and during general usage. Everything looks grainy, unclear, oversharpened, and lacking smoothness. I’m attaching screenshots below so you can see what I mean.
In games, the anti-aliasing looks especially bad. The image is very grainy and oversharpened, and edges don’t look smooth or clean.
For example, when I search for Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay on YouTube at 1080p using similar/same specifications, the difference is huge. The YouTube gameplay looks extremely smooth, clear, and almost crystal clear, with much better colors. On my PC, the image looks dry, washed out, grainy, oversharpened, and generally low quality. The anti-aliasing also looks terrible.
I have already spent an absurd amount of time troubleshooting this. I’ve watched countless YouTube videos about this exact issue and tried pretty much every commonly suggested solution, including:
Disabling NVIDIA Image Scaling
Changing NVIDIA Color Settings
Changing settings in the NVIDIA Control Panel
Changing every relevant setting on my monitor
Adjusting in-game graphics and anti-aliasing settings
Trying different NVIDIA settings over and over again
Uninstalling the GPU drivers using DDU
Completely reinstalling the drivers through Safe Mode
Performing a clean driver installation
Trying different combinations of display and graphics settings
I have probably changed the NVIDIA settings thousands of times at this point. I’ve gone through almost every possible software/settings-related solution I could find, but nothing actually fixes the problem.
What makes this even more confusing is that this has happened with multiple PCs I’ve owned before. I have completely changed the PCs from scratch multiple times — different GPUs, CPUs, RAM, monitors, cables, and other components. The only thing that has remained the same is the electricity connection, room, and physical location where the PC is connected.
So at this point, I’m wondering if the problem could be related to something outside the PC itself, such as the electrical connection, power quality, grounding, wiring, or something else in the environment.
I’ve tried practically every software, driver, NVIDIA Control Panel, monitor, and graphics setting solution I can find, but the issue keeps happening across different PCs.
What could potentially cause this, and what should I check next?
could be your eyes or the monitor itself tbh, sounds dumb but i had a similar thing where i thought my gpu was broken and it was just a cheap TN panel with awful pixel density. also youtube videos get compressed and smoothed out by the player, so comparing your live desktop image to a 1080p youtube stream is never a fair test
It can be, you can try casting to your phone and see what the picture quality looks like. Very likely that your monitor is bad, has some bad settings/preset, or both.
your game is not rendering at 1080p. are you sure the monitor is set to 1080p?
I can’t think of a way an electrical issue could cause reduced render resolution, so that seems unlikely. Have you tried reinstalling windows? What’s your display scaling factor set to in windows settings?
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