I have an Asus PA329Q monitor. Connected to my iMac Retina 5k 27inch 2019. It is connected via Thunderbolt to HDMI adapter. I’m on Monterey 12.1. Although the box of the monitor says “4k 60Hz” I am unable to access this setting through displays preferences. It always seems to default to 30hz. I am also having trouble with the resolution settings.
When I first bought the monitor and plugged it in I was amazed at the minuscule size of the text, it was completely unreadable to me. For example, the text in the menu bar at the top is about 3mm high, although the panel is not physically that much larger than the iMac. So, I quickly set it to one of the scaled settings.
Since then I had read that using the scaled display setting would affect performance, and I have recently noticed issues where the contextual pointer of my mouse wasn’t behaving as expected. For example, when I hover the mouse over the side of a Safari window, it doesn’t always transform into a double headed arrow. I also notice that when hitting CMD + space for spotlight the autocomplete doesn’t work, so if I type “PHO” it sometimes doesn’t present me with the option of Photoshop. I find this issue is intermittent, it goes away when I reboot the machine, although always comes back. It is not so noticeable in Photoshop, but very inconvenient in Lightroom. I had also read that this was caused when a scaled display was in use and the GPU was activated.
I am not sure if this is since upgrading to Monterey, but I experimented with setting the monitor to the default setting through displays preferences. However, this seems to default to 1920x1080p 30hz. This doesn’t seem right. I’ve tried EasyRes, doesn’t help. If I use EasyRes instead of display settings and manually set it to the monitor’s stated setting the minuscule text is back. Whether I select the higher resolution in the 2x and 1x options in EasyRes it produces identical results.
There is a further issue, that the displays preference setting on my mac also gives me colour profile options, and I’m now worried that I’ve set that wrong too. I would normally have the monitor itself set to Adobe RGB mode, but the display preferences has the option of PA329 and Adobe (and others, it defaulted to sRBG once). I assume PA329 is correct because the display is factory calibrated, but at this point I’m pulling my hair out.
I find it very difficult to understand the technical advice from Asus. For example, they don’t tell you what any of the default settings are supposed to be. I accidentally changed something called “trace free” and have no idea what the default should be.
When I first bought the monitor and plugged it in I was amazed at the minuscule size of the text, it was completely unreadable to me. For example, the text in the menu bar at the top is about 3mm high, although the panel is not physically that much larger than the iMac. So, I quickly set it to one of the scaled settings.
Since then I had read that using the scaled display setting would affect performance, and I have recently noticed issues where the contextual pointer of my mouse wasn’t behaving as expected. For example, when I hover the mouse over the side of a Safari window, it doesn’t always transform into a double headed arrow. I also notice that when hitting CMD + space for spotlight the autocomplete doesn’t work, so if I type “PHO” it sometimes doesn’t present me with the option of Photoshop. I find this issue is intermittent, it goes away when I reboot the machine, although always comes back. It is not so noticeable in Photoshop, but very inconvenient in Lightroom. I had also read that this was caused when a scaled display was in use and the GPU was activated.
I am not sure if this is since upgrading to Monterey, but I experimented with setting the monitor to the default setting through displays preferences. However, this seems to default to 1920x1080p 30hz. This doesn’t seem right. I’ve tried EasyRes, doesn’t help. If I use EasyRes instead of display settings and manually set it to the monitor’s stated setting the minuscule text is back. Whether I select the higher resolution in the 2x and 1x options in EasyRes it produces identical results.
There is a further issue, that the displays preference setting on my mac also gives me colour profile options, and I’m now worried that I’ve set that wrong too. I would normally have the monitor itself set to Adobe RGB mode, but the display preferences has the option of PA329 and Adobe (and others, it defaulted to sRBG once). I assume PA329 is correct because the display is factory calibrated, but at this point I’m pulling my hair out.
I find it very difficult to understand the technical advice from Asus. For example, they don’t tell you what any of the default settings are supposed to be. I accidentally changed something called “trace free” and have no idea what the default should be.
