I'm glad to hear things are going well. I definitely recommend getting a high refresh rate monitor with FreeSync if you plan on playing a lot of video games.
OLED monitors are the best because they have the fastest pixel response time and no input lag penalty when HDR is enabled. LCD monitors with local dimming add a lot of input lag when HDR is enabled due to local dimming processing time.
Monitors Unboxed channel on YouTube has great monitor reviews.
Cool, once again, I really appreciate all of the recommendations you have made. It's really refreshing to ask for help, post ridiculously long posts of my own and actually get extremely helpful and non-judgemental replies. Especially in a day and age where so many people on the net don't need much of an opportunity to be unpleasant to others.
After all of the various diags, I am certainly leaning towards your suggestion that the 13th/14th gen CPU had issues, and this (🤞) has been rectified by the BIOS update.
I am however, still absolutely baffled as to why this would affect one single title but I'm done trying to understand that now and will just accept it as being what it is 😂
I'll post back after the weekend with just a progress update on stability and with a bit of luck, mark the conversation as resolved by the end of next week.
