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Asus ROG Strix XG27AQDMG Gen 2 (aka XG27AQDMGR) Best Settings Guide (Patreon)

Published:
2026-04-28 13:32:17
Imported:
2026-09

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Review here: https://tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/asus-rog-strix-xg27aqdmg-gen-2

General settings

Power setting = Performance mode (to give you full access to controls)

OLED Care = leave as many of these turned on as possible. If you find any distracting or problematic you can disable them if you want

Neo proximity sensor = enable this if you want to use it, it's pretty useful

SDR

Preset mode = User

Brightness = 22 (for 120 nits) but set this to whatever you find comfortable and appropriate for your ambient light conditions and usage

Uniform brightness = On for desktop and general usage to avoid ABL dimming. You could turn this off for SDR multimedia and gaming perhaps

Contrast = 80

Gamma = 2.2

Colour temp = User

RGB = 100, 99, 99

Colour space = Wide gamut (if wanting to use the full colour space or if you're pairing these with our calibrated ICC profile)

Shadow boost = experiment with this for darker gaming and movies if needed, although the default shadow detail performance is very good on this screen.

If you want to clamp to sRGB all the time for SDR usage, you can switch the colour space setting to 'sRGB' but don't use our ICC profile in that case, as it's designed to be used with the wide gamut mode. No point in using the DCI-P3 colour space as the native wide gamut performance matches DCI-P3 very closely already.

HDR

Only enable Windows HDR when viewing actual HDR content (explained here)

HDR mode = Console HDR

Adjustable HDR = On

Brightness = change to 100

Dynamic brightness boost = experiment with this, but likely you'll want it on for more impactful and brighter HDR experience

Contrast = 80

Colour temp = 6500K

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Comments

manuel Melo

Does brigthness at 100 on HDR mode and DBB on wash or band some colors?

manuel Melo

Thanks for your response! During windows hdr calibration do you recommend Increasing the saturation slider at the end? And, should i always calibrate with the display at 100 brigthness? Sorry for all the questions!

TFTCentral

Leave brightness at 100, yes. Follow the visual guidance of the tool, and you can adjust the saturation if you feel you prefer that. But keep in mind the vast majority of HDR games don’t even use the config from that tool anyway, in favour of their own built in tool, so it may be a bit irrelevant anyway

manuel Melo

The ICM file should i add it as a HDR profile?

TFTCentral

No it’s a profile designed for SDR usage only. It’s not possible to profile and calibrate HDR modes in the same way unfortunately

manuel Melo

Understood. Is it okay to set the peak brightness to the exact clipping level even though it is a lower vlaue than the peak brightness nits the monitor can reproduce? For example these are the peak numbers for my profiles: TRUE BLACK HDR 430 GAMING HDR 790 CONSOLE HDR 700

TFTCentral

Always follow the visual guidance in those tools. Is that windows HDR tool or a console tool?

TFTCentral

Yes always follow the visual guidance but note that the vast majority of HDR games don’t even use the config from that tool anyway, in favour of their own built in config tools, so it may be irrelevant anyway

Mohmmed u

you attached the old gen icc profile

TFTCentral

It's the right one, that's the new Gen 2 (aka XG27AQDMGR - note the R on the end) :)

usuajs sjjsjs

Hey what should you use in windows hdr calibration?

Sami

I'm really confused right now, I have the Asus XG27AQWMG should I use those settings or not? for both the SDR and HDR?

oPaladin

Have you encountered any random black screens for 1-2 seconds? I am using the monitor and i am seeing this issue

TFTCentral

no, but more often than not that kind of thing is caused by a cabling issue. I: would definitely try another (high quality, certified) cable

oPaladin

I have tried 4 different cables, 2 of them were original delivered with the display

TFTCentral

I'd maybe try a screen reset from the menu, make sure you've left DSC enabled too. What GPU do you have?

oPaladin

9070xt, ended up using original hdmi 2.1 cable. I have disabled dsc because hdmi has enough bandwidth. All drivers and firmwares had been updated.

TFTCentral

I expect it's because you've disabled DSC then, as while it should work in theory within the bandwidth, it's not really designed to be used in that way, especially over HDMI. There's no reason to disable DSC, I would re-enable that and probably switch to DP as well for a more stable connection. I expect that will resolve your problems

oPaladin

That was my original setup, but still had the issues. Can try switching back and change the dp on the gpu. There is a big topic on older asus models with such issue. So i was thinking i am one of them. Also i have setuped the display with proximity sensor on tailored mode and its true that i change seating position a lot.

TFTCentral

It could possibly be that too. I’d try and eliminate each possibility and see what is causing it. Care sensor could be to blame too

oPaladin

Yeah, originally with dp i did not disable dsc. Because i would loss 10 bit color range. I have 2 more questions 1) i am currently using 95 brightness on the sdr setup and boosting colors with gpu driver adjustment, being gamer i really need more saturated colors. Would you recommend you monitor profile? 2) i have currently vrr disabled, is it worth turning on and using amdfreesync? If yes, do you have some guide what to configure? For exaple fps cap under monitor refresh rate or something like that?

TFTCentral

It's ok to boost the colours and brightness if thats what you prefer for gaming. What you might want to do is make sure that you're using the native full wide gamut mode and not DCI-P3 or sRGB modes. Also make sure that Windows Auto Color Management hasn't become enabled, as that will causing colour clamping. You could use our profile if you want, that will clamp colours back to sRGB for colour aware applications but it shouldn't impact games which ignore profiles largely. Whether or not you want to enable VRR that depends really. if you're experiencing tearing or other issues related to variable frame rates, it may help, but if not then there's probably no value in enabling it, and it may only introduce VRR flicker if you did.

oPaladin

Sorry, but one last question, should i use full rgb as my pixel format or should i use some cind of ycbcr.

TFTCentral

RGB for pc inputs for sure and many modern external devices prob operate with that too.

Tomás Brilhante

I also happened to get a black screen out of nowhere many times when starting Windows and others during use in games and work and what I did was reset the settings in the color profile since I had an icc profile there and since then it has never done it can be very coincidence or something from the firmware

oPaladin

My was made by proximity sensor, basically i am not moving enough during gaming

Tomás Brilhante

This has also happened in mine but I turned it off for a while that bothered to be turning off during use and then I turned it on recently and never did that again, it may even be bugs that need to be fixed since I'm on the latest version

Kristiyan Iliev

When configuring Windows HDR Calibration, we have to have Dynamic brightness boost disabled right?

TFTCentral

I would configure that tool based on the settings you’re going to use afterwards. Follow the visual guidance and ignore the reported numbers, they’re arbitrary. But ultimately very few games actually even use the config from the windows tool anyway, in favour of their own built in tools, so it may be largely irrelevant anyway

Alexander Buhr

Why do many other people get 660 nits in Console HDR Mode in the Windows HDR Calibration app, while I can only reach 600 nits? I’m using 100 brightness and 80 contrast. The same thing happens in True Black 400 mode — I can only reach around 370 nits, while others reach 400. In Gaming HDR Mode, I can reach 700 nits, while others get around 720 nits. Could my display be defective? I would really appreciate some help. Thank you! In games, it feels like the gamma is shifted in HDR. There seems to be a slight gray haze over the image.

TFTCentral

Definitely not defective. Each screen sample will have slight variations in brightness and performance, especially over time with wear. The figures input in to the monitor EDID, which is what then gets reported to windows HDR calibration tool, are relevant at the time the screen goes through certification. The numbers are irrelevant though and not representative of real world performance. They never truly make sense on an OLED screen anyway. If you’re going to use that tool, follow the visual guidance and ignore the numbers. It will not cap brightness to 600 nits peak or anything like that anyway. The vast majority of games don’t even use the config from that tool anyway, in favour of their own built in config tools, so it may be largely irrelevant anyway

Tayler Zamperla

I'm using your raccomanded settings without the ICC profile. I notice an "aggressive" red even put it on 90. Does the icc profile attenuetes/fix it?

TFTCentral

That’s very likely to be a result of the very wide colour space of the panel. Using our profile will clamp the colour space back to sRGB for colour aware applications so that will certainly help. The other option would be to change to the sRGB colour space setting in OSD menu (without using our profile) which does the same thing but for all apps and all the time