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November 17th, 2004 13:00
1905FP ghosting problems
Hi,
my new 1905FP arrived yesterday, and I proudly hooked it up to my GeForce 6800GT card via DVI and marvelled at the quality of the desktop picture.
I then launched World of Warcraft - fabulous, until I moved the mouse. Woah. Blur city. I checked the resolution was 1280x1024 but again, everything is fine until I move the mouse, then the picture just loses all definition and motion blurs.
HalfLife 2. Staggeringly beautiful, again until I move the mouse. Then everything just goes terribly blurry, with blacks especially leaving trails all over the screen. Instant headache after 5mins of play. This game has loads of details and contrast, but even so, it looks like an LCD reponse time of 200ms rather than 20ms.
Now I know this is only 20ms and not 16ms response time, but I never expected it to be this awful. How can the extra 4ms suddenly make it great? Under DVI you get little control, but I've pulled the brightness down to 0 which is about all I can do. I've tried to force the GeForce to do 60Hz at 1280x1024 but the OSD always seems to report 75Hz as the refresh rate. Could that be the issue?
How can I force 60Hz under DVI? I've gone to desktop properties and set 1280x1024 @ 60Hz but the OSD still reports it being 75Hz.
Is this just how it is with the 1905FP? If so I want my money back as it is horrible.
Any advice gratefully received,
Thanks,
Nick
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Ozmo
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May 19th, 2005 22:00
My replacment was sent very promptly - but had same motion blur as first one.
I was testing up to 80ms using bench tool "PixPerAn, Version 1.011e".
I guess its the monitor. Maybe early versions of the 1905FP were made differently as some folk and reviewers seem happy with it.
Most other Dell monitors are very good though.
EchoMatrix
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May 31st, 2005 16:00
skychylde04
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June 22nd, 2005 19:00
rhinnc
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June 22nd, 2005 19:00
You should have no problem with the monitor using it as you describe.
skychylde04
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June 22nd, 2005 19:00
I was wondering if I can ask a question. I just ordered the flat panel in question to replace the basic CRT that I got when I bought my 8400 (very happy by the way) 6 months ago. I don't play the games you guys play, the only things I play are civilizations and the sims/sims2. Are these the type of games that will have problems with the monitor. My main use of the computer is school and DVD's, will this be a problem with playing DVDs? DVD's take up most of my off time so that is why I ordered the bigger flat pannel and after reading your post I am not sure if this was the right choice.
Ozmo
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June 23rd, 2005 23:00
>So then the problems described are for high end games like doom 3 and stuff of that ilk.
>Good ridence they make me sick anyway, too much going on at one time. Thanks for the reassurance!
I had the problems with DVD playback and Counterstrike (which is much slower game than doom).
The very first post says it was bad with warcraft - which is same style game as civilizations and the sims/sims2 which you want it for.
Buy a different Dell monitor - this one is pants.