An LCD monitor can't experience a real burn in, but something with a similar effect. You can't actually fix it, but you can let your monitor rest for some hours. This is usually enough to get rid of the effect. If not though, there is nothing you can do about it.
From wiki:
In the case of LCDs, the mechanics of burn-in are different than plasma and OLED, which develop burn-in from luminance degradation of the light-emitting pixels. For LCDs, burn-in develops in some cases because pixels permanently lose their ability to return to their relaxed state after a continued static use profile. In most typical usage profiles, this image persistence in LCD is only transient.
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I think this is it. I didn't know LCDs had a similar phenomenon but letting it rest just a couple hours seems to have solved it. I appreciate the info!
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No, that's where it was among the most visible. Golwar hit the nail on the head I think. Thanks!
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What Golwar said.
If you've never experienced it before with that monitor, then if you have access to a second monitor, try that and see if you get the same result.
This will rule out some crazy game trying to "kill" the monitor. I suspect that your monitor may be the culprit in this case though.
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I just played a round of Smash Up with a friend. After exiting the game (which was open for half an hour), artifacts/ ghost images of the game were left on my screen. Interestingly, these images only show up against a dark background. Against a white/ bright background, I can see what are basically line breaks, a row of LCDs is like blinking. I've restarted Steam, restarted the PC, played around in Nvidia Control Panel and in GEForce Experience and am pretty much out of ideas. Basically, this looks and acts like monitor burn, but it can't possibly be the case (right?) for an image that was only on-screen 30 minutes. I've left Netflix paused longer than that.
Taking a screenshot doesn't show the images and moving the window around, the ghost stays put. So I'm somewhat inclined to think this is an issue with my monitor rather than anything software/ in my tower. But why now? The monitor is ~3, 3.5 years old.
If it helps: Monitor is a LG 27MP35, GPU is a MSI 1070 Ti, connected via HDMI. If any other info about my set up is useful, please let me know.
No giveaway for now sorry
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