Question Any way to fix/remove burn-in?

[Stg-Flame]

So, I loaded Steam before I got off for the night yesterday, but my screensaver never came on and my PC never went into sleep mode for some reason and now there's a fairly clear burnt image of the Steam home page on my monitor. Is there any way to fix this or is this now a permanent feature?

 

[_Rick_]

Depends on your screen. My decade-old (at least by technology) screen has some pretty nasty image retention - but it usually clears up after a few hours.
Usually, just a few hours of exposure don't cause significant lasting damage, so I would recommend to just turn on the screensaver and cycle those pixels, or let the screen cool down a bit.

 

[Stg-Flame]

It's faded after leaving my monitor off for a whole day, but I can still see the outline of the Steam client clearly against grayish backgrounds. It's nothing so significant that it's causing a distraction while playing games or watching videos, but it's definitely noticeable on certain web pages. I'll give it some more time and maybe run the screensaver a bit to see if that helps.

 

[KentState]

What type of monitor? To be clear, burn-in is a physical change to the display that has diminished the structure of the pixels. For example. on something like an OLED or plasma, the image did not wear at the same rate as the surrounding area. Retention is something different which can be recovered from and may happen on an LCD where the pixel got stuck open/closed due to a static image. That can be worked out over time.

 

[Stg-Flame]

What type of monitor?

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[mnewsham]

It's an IPS panel, and some IPS panels do have issues with image persistence, it's not burn-in like you'd get on a plasma or OLED.

It SHOULD go away after some time, especially with varied content, watch a movie or play a game for a few hours

 

[Stg-Flame]

Thanks. This is the first time this has happened so I was a bit worried. Granted, everything is pretty old (8 years maybe?) and my mouse and headphones are starting to show signs of breaking down, so I was wondering if the monitor was following them both.

 

[C1]

Might try this:

ScreenBurnFixer

Screen burn-in happens when you leave something displaying on your screen for an extended period of time. The screen retains the image and you see a "ghost" image of what used to be there.

www.screenburnfixer.com