[Q] Too sharp screen on monitor

Hi!

I'm using my mid-2012 Macbook Pro 15" non-Retina as my daily driver, and I have connected it to my new AOC Q9263PM 21:9-screen through HDMI, which was a task in itself. What I have been facing lately, is that the screen looks over-sharpened in OSX, which is a little bit annoying. The weird thing here is that the screen looks perfect in Windows on the same computer through the same input. So this is a software-"problem".

I have tried to calibrate the colors, and it helped a bit, but I can still see that it's over-sharpened. The easiest thing to see is that all lines on my wallpaper is too highlighted, and text and round icons is a bit grainy and pixelated compared to the same objects in Windows.

I've tried with the LCD Font Smoothing-option both enabled and disabled, but it won't help at all. On the MBP's screen, the image looks great and I cannot see this problem, so it's something related to the connection between my Mac and my monitor. Has someone came across this situation before, and know a way to fix it? As OSX is where I do all my graphical work, I need as natural image as possible.

Thanks in advance!

Make sure the resolution is set to the monitors native resolution. It may be too low.

cradom said:

Make sure the resolution is set to the monitors native resolution. It may be too low.

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It's set to it's native 2560x1080 resolution, but at 53Hz insted of it's native 60Hz. This for actually getting to display that resolution. But I have the same problem at 1920x1080 at 60Hz, so I don't know. The aspect ratio is not stretched, and it views the image as it should aspect-wise.