re: Large monitor distortion/ eyes hurting

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I agree that display port can yield better results. According to Samsung's website the monitor comes with a display port cable. Now it's up to the graphics card which could be underpowered for the monitor.

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I'm still leaning either display driver or PEBCAK. If he was capable of displaying 3840x2160, he's capable of displaying 3840x1080. That would exclude gpu, at least in theory. Leaving us with cable, driver, and PEBKAC.

It's never going to be super clear. 1080p is a very low resolution for a monitor that large.

But choosing the correct resolution should not cause only half your screen to fill, outside of some other interfering setting.

Though, to sate my curiosity: other than it not filling the entire screen, how does the 3840x1080 option look compared to the others?

I'd try uninstalling the video driver and installing the most up to date driver. I suspect there's some software/OS issue that's causing it.

If you want to spend the time, get a "Live CD" version of Linux. You can usually burn those to a thumb drive and get a working OS by just booting into it. This will show if it's an OS level/driver issue.

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It's never going to be super clear. 1080p is a very low resolution for a monitor that large.

But choosing the correct resolution should not cause only half your screen to fill, outside of some other interfering setting.

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Still not great at the 3840x1080. I'm not being picky either. I started working on this 45 mins ago and I'm going to have to stop. Its painful to attempt to use.

That's why something has to be off/ wrong. I don't need amazing or close to it. I just need actually usable.

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Just thought of it: try moving the monitor to another PC, or hooking it up to a laptop. Might be the fastest way to see if it's a PC problem or a monitor one.

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I did, I tried my employee's laptop and it was the same or worse. I'll go check his graphics card also. It was HDMI to HDMI.

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Doing a little research shows that this is an integrated graphics card that only performs well at low resolutions. IOW, it cannot drive your monitor properly.

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I could be wrong, but I think it should be able to display that resolution at some fps, even if it were very low.

I’m on my phone, but does the product website have a driver available for download? I would install that before trying anything else.

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I could be wrong, but I think it should be able to display that resolution at some fps, even if it were very low.

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True, but it's a 4Gig card trying to drive a 4k resolution monitor. It's going to struggle mightily IMO.

So, both are possible. Like I mentioned, 1080p is very low resolution for a screen that size. I probably wouldn’t have gone below 1440, and even that would be pushing it. You could also be struggling to get used to the curve.

Block off visually all but a small portion of the screen. Does what you see look “normal” or stretched in some odd way? Or is it just blurry?

And have you attempted to install the driver from the manufacturer’s website?

I added this to OP:

ETA: I just changed my HDMI mode setting from 2.0 to 1.4 and I think that may have fixed it? Would this make sense? Obviously if I have outdated hardware that's an issue?

So does that mean my current comp hardware is 1.4? Which will limit me from not being 2.0 obviously?

Would this likely solve my issue? Is the 1.4 on this monitor going to be usable for basic software as in I don't need to stream or use a lot of pixels? My computer is from 2016 so I don't necessarily mind upgrading it. I also don't mind upgrading the $300 more for the 4k monitor. But I don't NEED anything I'd rather not spend it.