Intel i5-8400 UHD 630- poor resolution graphics

[85East]

Hi,
I'm having some issues with the display using the onboard UHD 630 graphics on my 1st build. The display appears coarse, with colour gradients poor, and what looks like poor resolution. Text is not smooth, and the overall display appears harsh, and much more granular than it does when I hook my surface pro up to the same display

Monitor- Dell U2410, running at 1920x1200, via hdmi
Clover files and some pictures of the issue are attached, is there anything I can do or should I be looking at getting a dedicated graphics card?

 

[blurble]

I get this on my real macs attached to dell u somethingerother at work via HDMI and have done this on two of them to fix it. It's that osx is seeing your monitor as a tv, apple lists some other things to try to get it to know it's a monitor but I don't think i had luck with them. This fix has worked for me, though I had to re-apply it once after a major update, maybe 10.12 to 10.13, or 10.13 to 10.14.

https://www.mathewinkson.com/2013/03/force-rgb-mode-in-mac-os-x-to-fix-the-picture-quality-of-an-external-monitor

link to apple's page on fixing it

If your external display is dark or low resolution - Apple Support

If your Mac is working, but the external display connected to it has a blank or black screen (no video) or can't use its highest resolutions or refresh rates, try these solutions.

support.apple.com

 

[85East]

Many thanks! This was the issue. I used a slightly different process for Mojave, listed here
https://www.mathewinkson.com/2013/0...ix-the-picture-quality-of-an-external-monitor