I’m gonna get downvoted to oblivion for this…

I just got my new OLED and weirdly enough, upon booting it I saw something that I didn’t even think of till now. With the new OLED, the sub-pixel arrangement is slightly different than the LCD, and it’s causing white edge (specially on text) to have this green/magenta fringing. It’s extremely faint, and it’s not particular to the Steam Deck since I know of other OLED panels that have the same fringing. However I have heard zero mention of this and I have to say that although this matters close to nothing while playing videogames, it’s something I do see with subtitles.

With this out of the way, the screen looks amazing and I’m more than ready to sell and replace my LCD deck now. I hope the technology gets there where this isn’t an issue anymore!

Steam Deck LCD

Steam Deck OLED

  • Rahkeesh@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think the Game mode UI even uses subpixels for font anti-aliasing? Kind of bad news because most games don’t either.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t know for certain, but the fact that they are on a blue background might mitigate fringing slightly. To me, those characters are too good looking for having no AA