NEW LCD Monitor!

FanTum · Post by **FanTum** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 10:49 pm

Just got this tonight a KDS 19" LCD Monitor RAD-9. Got it cause it was a crazy deal on a display model at CompUSA. Anyway anyone have some tips for me, seems on some games theres a bit of trailing or ghosting when i look around. Anyone know of some adjustment to make or settings to clear it up a bit?

Reg price was 799.99 got em' down to 449.99 with a free DVI cable.

MAC · Post by **MAC** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 11:43 pm

Does any of the documentation tell you what the response time of the monitor is??

MAC

FanTum · Post by **FanTum** » Fri Jan 24, 2003 12:01 am

If you mean refresh rate then its 75 hz.

chottoED · Post by **chottoED** » Fri Jan 24, 2003 12:10 am

actually, sometimes setting the refresh to 60hz would clearing things up.. it did with my LCD monitors and my laptop

plucky duck · Post by **plucky duck** » Fri Jan 24, 2003 12:19 am

The lower the response time the less likely you'll notice ghosting during gameplay.

FanTum · Post by **FanTum** » Fri Jan 24, 2003 1:01 am

Seems to help a little bit. My desktop is clear as anything just games r a little fuzzy when moving. Maybe I'm just not used to these monitors.

I tried messin with anit-liasing and anisotropic filtering but those seem to make my games dull, turn em all off and everything sharpens and brightens. Go figure!

DocSilly · Post by **DocSilly** » Fri Jan 24, 2003 5:44 am

The problem is the response time, that is the time that a pixel needs to switch from black-to-white and back. Your KDS has a Response Time of 35ms typical according to KDS webpage. You want a response time of 24ms (or lower) to prevent ghosting. The good old CRTs manage 3ms

tunis5000 · Post by **tunis5000** » Fri Jan 24, 2003 12:01 pm

Man you had a nice monitor before! I woulda told ya, LCD's are nice for text/pics but they suck for gaming...

FanTum · Post by **FanTum** » Fri Jan 24, 2003 7:02 pm

I got nothin to lose, I have 14 days to take back if I don't like it. Seems older games like Deus Ex have ghosting. I ran BF 1942, not bad, and UT 2003 at 1280/1204 looks sweet!

Slugbait · Post by **Slugbait** » Fri Jan 24, 2003 7:51 pm

It's only recently that desktop LCD can do a decent job with games. Even so, most LCD monitors today still aren't very good.

My suggestion is to get a decent PCI card that can push high-rez, make the LCD your secondary monitor, and put back the CRT as your primary. At least, that's the config on my machine...

plucky duck · Post by **plucky duck** » Fri Jan 24, 2003 8:36 pm

Hitachi has the fastest response time of 16ms, on it's new 17" LCD display, CML174, priced at $575USD.

DocSilly · Post by **DocSilly** » Fri Jan 24, 2003 9:21 pm

Those 16ms sound sweet but have yet to be proven in tests .... so far they couldn't keep that promise (taking from recent C'T magazin test on LCD monitors).