Review on Acer XV272U Xbmiipruzx Splendor Display - 1440p Agile Gaming Monitor by Jay Twilights

Coming from the Alienware AW3418DW (IPS Ultrawide) (VRR enabled on both monitors) I was a bit nervous about this purchase. However, I really love this monitor. The colors look better than my previous monitor and the speed is better too. I was primarily looking for a speed boost with this purchase and this monitor really helped. Even when running games at 70-90 fps (below the maximum refresh rate of both monitors) I felt a difference in response time. My new Acer is the dominant monitor of the two. I also thought the colors looked better. The Acer monitor was brighter and looked better in darker game scenes than my previous monitor. I used the VRR setup (Freesync/gsync*) with my RTX 2080 and had no issues, although this monitor was not gsync compatible at the time of this review. I've read on some forums, but honestly haven't researched it myself, that this panel is the same as their similar Predator model. The Predator model is compatible with gsync. This leads me to believe that this monitor could get gsync certification in the future. The VRR has been fantastic in every game I've played on it. EFT where I get 60-140 fps depending on the venue. COD where I clicked 200 fps. Then CSGO where I could use all 270Hz. All these games felt better than before. And to my delight, those games looked even better (color). Now that I've talked about looks, I should mention that I didn't look at the HDR performance on this monitor because I don't think it's worth paying the premium for VESA HDR 600. I have to say that I'm happy with this monitor, but I can't help but mention the problem I'm having. The problem is shown above. I haven't seen this issue in games and have only experienced this issue twice since I bought the monitor. I hope this stops but if not I will be returning this monitor. I really don't want to do that because otherwise I really love this monitor. I will update this review below as needed. Edit: I read online that the afterimage is caused by the black gain setting. I turned off the Black Boost and didn't notice any afterimage after a few days. 240Hz VRR still works great.