930B issues with WOW and Doom3?

[Nickma]

Hello all,

I've setup my 930B and got DVI working. When I'm playing WOW everything looks great except for one problem. When I'm standing in front of someone and I move side to side a few times I notice that the player getting a little blurred but stops when I stop.

For Doom3 I notice that when I'm running in the hallways I see some ripples and waves for a second. Is this what they mean by ghosting?

Some movies look grainer than on my old CRT.

Do I have something configured wrong? or is this the way LCD's work. If I can't fix this then I think I'm going to return it. I have a 6600GT for my video card.

Thanks for your help.

-Nick

 

[NokiaDude]

Make sure WOW and Doom3 are set to 1280x1024. Any other resolution will look like crap. Those ripples and waves are called image "tearing". It occurs when the frame rates match the veritcal refresh rate. It happens ALOT in D3 with an LCD monitor because the refresh rate is so low.

 

[Xed]

try turning on v-sync

 

[kylebisme]

Originally posted by: NokiaDude
Those ripples and waves are called image "tearing". It occurs when the frame rates match the veritcal refresh rate.

Tearing occurs regardless of what the framerate is in respect to the refresh rate, unless they are exactly synced with vsync.

 

[CU]

I didn't think LCD's had refresh rates?

 

[NokiaDude]

They do. But they don't cause flickering anymore, unlike CRT's.

 

[Nickma]

Hi All,

Thanks for the tips. I turned vsync on and it's better but I still see some "tearing" and WOW still has slight blurr. Any other ideas? I think I'm going to return this and go with a CRT monitor.

Which is better:

1. Viewsonic G90FB
2. Samsung 997DF-T

Thanks for your help.

-Nick

 

[imported_Kensai]

Actually, LCD's flicker too. I need a high refresh rate from odd reason with LCDs or I see flickering. I'm special though.

 

[CDog]

That's odd. By design LCDs do not flicker at low refresh rates, as CRTs.

Nickma, the blur in WoW is ghosting. You can't change that by tweaking your drivers; it's there because of the way the LCD works. All LCDs have ghosting, but with an 8ms response, the 930B has very little compared to other screens. You'll either have to get used to it or exchange the LCD for a quality CRT.

 

[jiffylube1024]

I have a 730B (the 930B's little brother) and I have none of those problems. Either you are absolutely insanely sensitive to ghosting or you are having a problem with your video card, DVI cable or monitor. It could be the monitor.

does the monitor ghost at all in Windows when you scroll text? At work we ordered 28 Dell 1704FP monitors (the new ones which I think are 12ms or 16ms) ... all but one are beautiful with no ghosting; one had horrible ghosting and was returned as defective.

 

[Jaskalas]

My 2005fpw gives things a slight bur, as if I lost a little focus when I move in games. WoW included. So I have to say this comes naturally to LCDs, but I've learned to ignore it for the most part.