It's Back!!!!! Dell 1905FP 19" LCD /w DVI and Height Adjustable Stand for $310 Shipped

[SPD2171]

I have no issue inside HL2, inside any of the stock or custom CS:S maps, or in the high paced moving world of BIA or COD.....

 

[The_Dude8]

the lcd has drop to $399 without any coupon now.

 

[flashbak]

Question, I just received this monitor yesterday and have noticed that when scrolling text looks like it becomes bold then as you slow down the scroll returns to normal. The same thing happens when I drag a window to another part of the screen. Is this normal. I'm running this interfaced to a Nvidia GForce FX5500 and running at 1280 X1024. Picture quality (DVD playback) is excellent, but what's the deal with this anomoly? This is my first LCD so I'm not sure if this is normal but I find it annoying.

 

[Chesebert]

ghosting.

 

[Delleet]

Originally posted by: flashbak
Question, I just received this monitor yesterday and have noticed that when scrolling text looks like it becomes bold then as you slow down the scroll returns to normal. The same thing happens when I drag a window to another part of the screen. Is this normal. I'm running this interfaced to a Nvidia GForce FX5500 and running at 1280 X1024. Picture quality (DVD playback) is excellent, but what's the deal with this anomoly? This is my first LCD so I'm not sure if this is normal but I find it annoying.

Ghosting. Feel free to read the whole thread

 

[SPD2171]

Now you 2 are saying that this LCD ghosts TEXT on a webpage? Wow.... Guess that shows any chance that you 2 were actually impartial reviewers who thought it was a bad gaming monitor. Now you claim it ghosts on scrolling text on a page, when the poster states very clearly that DVD playback is excellent. Must be the only monitor in existance that plays DVDs perfectly but ghosts on text...lmao.

To answer your question legitimately Flashbak, here is the solution. Go to Control Panel, Display, then Appearance Tab. Click the EFFECTS button. Take the check mark out of the first box which is "Use the following effect for transition....." and on the second box down, check "CLEARTYPE" as an option.

Hope that helps, if not it may be in your text settings of your browser or display settings on the video card tab for text.

Good luck, enjoy your monitor!

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Got my yesterday.

Running it on Rig 3 (see sig).

No problems so far. No dead pixels.

 

[Chesebert]

Originally posted by: SPD2171
Now you 2 are saying that this LCD ghosts TEXT on a webpage? Wow.... Guess that shows any chance that you 2 were actually impartial reviewers who thought it was a bad gaming monitor. Now you claim it ghosts on scrolling text on a page, when the poster states very clearly that DVD playback is excellent. Must be the only monitor in existance that plays DVDs perfectly but ghosts on text...lmao.

To answer your question legitimately Flashbak, here is the solution. Go to Control Panel, Display, then Appearance Tab. Click the EFFECTS button. Take the check mark out of the first box which is "Use the following effect for transition....." and on the second box down, check "CLEARTYPE" as an option.

Hope that helps, if not it may be in your text settings of your browser or display settings on the video card tab for text.

Good luck, enjoy your monitor!

Well here is the logic:
PVA panels are known to have problem with similar color transisitions. xbitlabs has found that they can be as high as 80ms. scrolling text or moving your view pointer in a games are really similar in that one pixle that was one color is replaced with another color that is similar in shade. i.e. the text in this forum is black and background is grey. so black to grey transition and vice versa as you scroll down. Therefore you can conclude because of the inherent characteristic of the PVA panel, scrolling text will cause ghosting.

 

[Oakenfold]

Ran UT2K4, WoW, and Halo so far with no problems.

I still like my 2001FP but for my wife who doesn't need to run games @ 1600x1200 it's a great monitor so far.

 

[flashbak]

Hi SPD2171,
Thanks for your suggestions, those settings definitely helped! After doing a liittle research it seems the more appropriate term to use for this artifact is what's known as image smearing not ghosting.