LG 34GP950G-B 34 Inch Ultragear Curved Gaming Monitor

I had posted an initial review, replacing with the punch line after I learned everything. I purchased two of these, actually three, and have had lots of problems. A) One of the two I initially ordered was broken. No damage to the physical packaging or monitor that I could discern, box was perfect, but monitor had a wide column of bad pixels. So I returned and ordered a third. B) Currently have two that I'm using, probably will return both of them. Most of the problems I've worked through myself, but some deal breakers still persist and I cannot get any help from LG. They are completely unresponsive. I end up getting all my help from people on Reddit, where there is a community of people all struggling with the same issues and lamenting lack of support from LG. The two big issues, in order of seriousness to me. 1) Display Port is famous for having power management issues that create confusion for Windows. When monitors shut off or go to sleep, if power is fully removed from the DP cable, Windows will think they have been unplugged from the system and then everything readjusts. Windows are rearranged and moved to the primary display. It's a tremendous annoyance that creates problems in multi-monitor situations. Historically manufacturers have overcome this issue by adding a "disable deep sleep" option in their onscreen menus. Every manufacturer, Dell/Alienware, Samsung, Asus, etc., they all have an option to disable deep sleep. This corrects the problem. Instead of going fully to sleep, the monitor will be smart, shut off the LEDs but keep a little bit of voltage active on the DP to keep things alive so Windows doesn't think the monitor has been physically unplugged. Well, that option is missing from this monitor! Which means several times a day, all of my Windows get rearranged randomly. Words cannot describe the level of annoyance and downright rage that results from this. 2) There are issues with chroma subsampling to be aware of. Took me time to sort this out. Out of the box, text in Windows was unreadable due to the color subsampling. Hurt my eyes. Picture attached to review. There is a red/green halo around text. I was able to correct the situation by downclocking the monitor to 100Hz instead of the rated 144-160Hz. Now this is where people will say I don't have a good enough graphics card, I'm on an old version of display port, etc, etc. By the standard, DP1.4 supports 3440x1440 8bpc full rgb @ 144Hz, yet, don't know what to say, it isn't working for me. Whatever is going on with my setup, there is still fault on LG's side, and here's why. 2a) I am on a Titan X graphics card. Which, yes, was originally spec'd at DP1.2 when it was released. However, NVidia has since released a firmware update to the card that upgrades the display port to DP1.4. I have installed this firmware update. 2b) The monitor itself claims in the on screen menu that it's running DP1.4. So one of two things is going on here. Either the monitor doesn't support full color at 144Hz without subsampling, or, the firmware is incorrectly telling me it's running DP1.4 when in truth it's running an earlier version like DP1.2. (shrug) About all of these things, to no avail, I have attempted to get in touch with LG support. By phone. By email. By their support forum. Zilch. Over the phone, people are ignorant. I seem to know more about their own monitor than they do and they can't do anything beyond the typical Geek Squad kind of support meant for technically illiterate people who just need help finding the on switch. They insist the problem is on my end and monitor works as designed. The don't even comprehend the problems I'm explaining to them. Okay, let's try email. Emails I get zero response to. On the message board, same, I get no response. It's a sick joke. I mean, this is a company right? A real company? With people who do work and stuff? So, in summary, I have two 144Hz monitors that I am only able to use at 100Hz. And, the bigger problem, several times a day those monitors engage in acts of digital terrorism against my Windows desktop by unplugging themselves from the system. And LG doesn't care, they seem to think it's funny. Other than that, they're great! Which I say both sarcastically, and seriously. When things are working, I'm enjoying these monitors. As an engineer, I know that these issues are the type that should be easy to fix. Almost certainly, a firmware update would add the option to disable deep sleep. This is my biggest issue. The subsampling issue I don't know what's going on. It could be a problem with my graphics card. Could be that I'm running DP1.2 instead of DP1.4. But I don't know. It could be that the onscreen menu is wrong about DP version... which again a firmware update would correct. Who the heck knows, because LG support is nonexistent and I can't even have the conversation to troubleshoot the matter. So I'm probably going to box these up and return them as defective. While I find it an unfortunate waste because I think these problems are fixable, not my problem. I have bent over backwards to try and make these monitors work. LG's service is shocking the bad. On the other hand, all the reviews say the opposite about Alienware. Already placed an order for two AW3420DW. Good luck!