Just got my Steam Deck OLED upgrade today!

While I’m overall very happy with it, I did notice something unexpected in the OLED display. There’s more color fringing than I expected, especially around white icons and text. It’s quite noticeable and makes all the white elements in the Steam UI look very “not white” and giving everything a subtly chromatic aberration look.

Is this just how OLEDs look (I don’t think I’ve used an OLED screen before) or is something unusual about my specific unit? Sadly I’ve already sold my LCD deck so I can’t compare.

https://preview.redd.it/rrql996yd62c1.png?width=449&format=png&auto=webp&s=f9b41bc23d1319338b56b4b48cc34881ecee154e

  • jaynator495@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    It’s quite distracting for me as well. Something I want to figure out is if it’s happening to normal units, or LE units only. I see mixed reports about it, which leads me to believe it might be a panel issue. Do you have an LE?

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      1 year ago

      I’m on 1tb non-LE, confirmed its a samsung panel, also found a megathread comment mention their LE boe panel had fringing too. So its probably just an oled thing.