Tips to make your M992 look great

Question

When I first turned on my M992, I was a bit disappointed by the picture quality. The brightness was too high, and the picture seemed a bit fuzzy.

After playing around with some settings, though, the picture improved greatly.

Here are a few tips to improve the picture, at least IMO. Note that I have a Dell 4550 with a Radeon 9700 Pro video card.

- Run the M992 at 1024 x 768 resolution

- go to CONTROL PANEL-DISPLAY-APPEARANCE and change the Font Size to Large Fonts

- go to CONTROL PANEL-DISPLAY-APPEARANCE-EFFECTS and change the Screen Fonts to ClearType

- go to CONTROL PANEL-DISPLAY-SETTINGS-ADVANCED-GENERAL and change the DPI setting to 120

- go to CONTROL PANEL-DISPLAY-SETTINGS-ADVANCED-COLOR and slide the Desktop Brightness slider slightly to the left.

After doing these things, my M992 now looks like a whole new montior compared to what it looked like when I first turned it on.

Tastes and preferences may vary, but I just wanted to share what worked for me.

DELL-Jesse L · Answer

CrusaderX, Thank you for using the Dell Community Forum. Thank you for your information.

Janiemom · Answer

Thanks for the tips.  I have an M782p and had done everything you suggested but the clear type fonts.  This made it even better.  I had just gotten a 992 at work yesterday.  That prompted me to look at your message.  I don't have administrative rights at work but I made the changes that I could.  I love this forum and thank good people like you for sharing what you can.

Jerboa · Answer

I don't have the options that you suggest. I have Dimension 4100 w/ NVIDIA 64MB GeForce2 MX with TV out. The display properties allow me to change to large fonts. I also have color correction tabs that I used to decrease the brightness and also the gamma. I am happy with the picture but on the original Trinitron I didn't have to do this. It was a 17" so the comparison may not be fair.

The clear type fonts are what I'm curious about. I could not find a setting for this anywhere. I am using Win2000. SP3

Thanks for your help.

JB

Janiemom · Answer

Sorry, Windows 2000 does not support clear type fonts.  For more information on Clear Type for Windows XP go to http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/1.htm?fname=%20&fsize=

Jerboa · Answer

Thanks for the reply. I remember now where I had read about "Clear Type" fonts. I would highly recommend following this link to an excellent article. I wish I could benefit from sub-pixel rendering on my computer. This article describes the origins of this technology and demonstrates Microsoft's rip-off of another "small fish".

http://grc.com/cleartype.htm

P.S. I found that using 4x anti-aliasing is my only option. This did help.

JB

Message Edited by Jerboa on 02-23-2003 01:00 PM

foltmanns2 · Answer

CrusaderX--
Wow, I just made the change to large font and it made the world of difference! I was happy enough with the standard size, but the large made it sharper, more readable. I left the dpi at 96....120 made it way too large. Thanks for the tip!

felicia

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