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October 21st, 2011 15:00

Alienware AW2310 120HZ

When I set my refresh rate in Windows 7 to 120hz everything gets all blurry. Dell had incorrectly sent me a single link DVI connector, but I purchased a DVI-D Dual Link on Amazon which arrived today. 

I set the -refresh 120 in Counter-Strike Source and you can definitely tell it's working, it's so smooth but again...the text is blurry and looks awful. I'm running a resolution of 1920x1080 both in Windows and CSS. I'm running the latest 11.10 preview 3 drivers.

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    Posted October 21st, 2011 15:00

    How does it look when set to 60Hz? Post some pitcures of the text using both120Hz and 60Hz. Did you test the other video card DVI port?


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    Posted October 21st, 2011 16:00

    It looks fine when set to 60hz @ 1920x1080. As soon as I jump to the next available option (100hz+) text becomes unreadable, and all the icons get blurry. I tested both DVI spots on my 5870 to no avail. I am also absolutely positive I'm using the correct DVI-D (Dual Link) cable.

    I'm unable to post a screenshot because Print Screen does not capture the distortion, and I don't have a digital camera near me.

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    Posted October 24th, 2011 11:00

    Does the issue occur using the Dell supplied 5870 video card driver or are you only testing the retail driver?

    Set the desktop to 120Hz 1080p.
    - How does text look?
    - How do the desktop icons look?

    With the desktop set to 120Hz 1080p test the game using the ingame settings 60Hz, 100Hz, 120Hz. Post the results.


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    Posted October 24th, 2011 15:00

    I have set both the desktop and in-game to 1080p 120hz and they both look the same. I forgot to mention that this was a refurb I purchased from the Dell Outlet. I'm wanting to return it because I've tried everything humanly possible to get this working. Do you know if Dell will ship me another one before I return this one? The reason being that with me having to ship it back, and wait for the Dell to process it then ship it back to me...I could be looking at a month without a monitor.