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My new PX171M-BK 17-inch

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kormaster

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Ok.. so i bought this though Dell over the 1800FT dell model.. why? the 16ms RT.. I love this monitor. The swivel is great for working on word documents.

So i fired up my CS. Now this monitor is connected via DVI to my PNY GF4 4200. Everything looks good, but one complaint!!

The game is too dark in hall ways. If i turn up the BRIGHTness and Contrast, it helps a little, but white just gets whiter and dark seems to just stay the same. I cant even see the enemies faces in the dark. What setting am i supposed to mess around with?

Oh yeah and where do i find drivers for this monitor? will that help? will Nvidia contral center setting help? I have been messing around this the setting but do not help.. sigh. .please helpe me....
 
I have the same monitor. I also play CS. It is also very dark.

I turned up the contrast/brightness really high so it helps a little bit, but then i can barely see the crosshairs on some guns against some backgrounds.

Anyone out there have any ideas?
 
Have you tried downloading Powerstrip or some other third party utility? Use the app to increase the gamma and brightness of your desktop when certain applications open.
 
I couldn't find any mention of the brightness or contrast of this screen anywhere in the specs for this product. Looks like it's so bad they don't even want you to know the real numbers. Here's a review I found which basically confirms that it's a POS screen:

Planar PX171M
April 22, 2003
By Cade Metz

The 17-inch Planar PX171M gives you everything but great performance. It has an unusually flexible bezel, includes stereo speakers, and is equipped with both analog and digital connectors. If only Planar had spent as much time on the screen itself! The unit displays everyday office apps with no trouble, but it struggled on our DisplayMate tests.

Thanks to the PX171M's cleverly designed bezel, you can position the screen precisely. You can tilt it forward and back, slide it up and down, and, as with the NEC MultiSync LCD1760NX, swivel it from side to side. You can even rotate it 90 degrees. It's one of two 17-inch models we reviewed that can pivot, letting you turn your Windows desktop on its side.

On our DisplayMate tests, the unit had trouble displaying close to 10 percent of the shades at either end of the gray scale. The unit suffered from marked jitter during our pixel phase test, and it failed to display subtle shades on our low-saturation color test.

Predictably, the unit also had a few problems with digital photos. Backgrounds seemed oversaturated with color, and we couldn't always see details in shadows. The Planar LCD's bezel is a dream, but its screen is a different matter.
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