Review on Immersive Gaming Experience: ViewSonic XG2431 FreeSync Ergonomics DisplayPort 240Hz HD LCD by Chris Shaw

You need to use large vertical values and adjust the strobe width, strobe phase and overdrive using the strobe utility provided by ViewSonic to get the magic out of this monitor. Motion performance is fine with nothing more than turning on PureXP, but at this point you might want to consider other options. However, once the LVT and strobe are set up, you have no choice but to use this monitor. When comparing an 85Hz CRT (GDM-FW900) next to an 85Hz XG2431, the XG2431's picture is arguably better. The CRT still has bright white motion traces, while the XG2431 has none, just the tiniest, faintest blur at the top and bottom of the screen. You won't notice these artifacts in game. The picture is also significantly sharper than on a CRT. Otherwise, the motion sharpness is identical and thus outdated by the CRT, whose advantages now only lie in deeper black tones in the darkroom and smoothed low resolutions. However, you're paying for the clarity of motion with brightness, like a CRT. Adjusting the strobe width by about 3/4 with very little added blur compared to the ideal 1/2 strobe width is a good point since it's so dim and offset up and down the screen. If your top priority when buying a CRT monitor is motion sharpness, don't even bother. Just buy this monitor and save £80 and a significant amount of money. However, this note should make it clear. I wouldn't have bought this monitor if it wasn't for the built in utility. Without additional settings from the utility, the monitor is average. That's clear, but it's not a CRT so not worth buying if I can compromise with other monitors or TVs that also have motion issues but have higher resolution, better colors etc and use CRT when motion clarity is important. Monitor manufacturers pay attention to this and allow full strobe/overdrive adjustment. There's no reason not to allow it, and besides, it should be controlled via the OSD, not the program. The fact that ViewSonic doesn't release a utility for every monitor they make, or at least gaming monitors, is unbelievable because that's the only reason I even considered buying a monitor from them. Why bother when you can buy monitors with 4k resolution, bigger screen or OLED displays with much better color? If larger-scale monitor manufacturers did what was done with that one monitor, CRTs could finally be retired.