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Terrible Ghosting with a NEC 20WMGX2

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Worthington

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Ok, so my first 20WMGX2 was DOA. The replacement arrived today. I set it up and fire up BF2. The ghosting is massive. Far worse then my old Viewsonic VP201. I install newer monitor drivers, still no good. So I plug my old 201 back in, just to verify that I'm not imgaining things. It looks pretty good, like it used to. It wasn't my imagination. This time, I don't reboot but just unplug the 201, and plug the new NEC back in. Change the res to the NECs native and fire up BF2. It looks amazing.. like people said it should with this 6ms panel... But, I'm getting these wierd flashes all over the screen (like static).. figuring it was because I swapped the monitors w/o a reboot (not that it's ever mattered before) I reboot, leaving the NEC plugged in. Once windows comes up I'm back into BF2... and back into the massive ghosting again.

What's going on here? This is supposedily one of the best panels available at the time.. and for the few minutes where it seemed to be working, it did in fact look awesome. But that was 2 minutes out of a hours worth of testing and a reboot set me right back to the crap. My previous two flat panels didn't have any of these issues. My vid card has been pumping 1600x1200 for the last year so it's not the issue (7800GTX).

Anyone have any idea's here? if I can't get it to look like it did for those few mins it's going back for sure.. and with the first one being DOA my faith in NEC is dropping pretty quick.
 
That's wierd, I've never had problems like that with my 20wmgx2. Try updating your nvidia drivers, (download driver cleaner pro, download new drivers, uninstall drivers using control panel, boot into safe mode, run driver cleaner, come back to regular mode, install new drivers), also download and install the 20wmgx2 drivers off of nec's website. Make sure your cable is connected tightly too.
 
Thanks for the response.

Currently I'm running both the newest Nvdia drivers and the newest NEC drivers, so I can't really update those further. Not to mention that they were pushing the previous monitor just fine.

The ghosting is worse with it then my 12ms panel.
 
are you sure you know what ghosting is? cos the monitor is spec'd to have almost none. I own one and have no issues with it @ ALL.
 
um, yeah. The trails left behind by displayed objects when the screen is "moving"..ie. by changing views, rotating, etc... *edit* moving is a bad description I guess. Just moving objects about on the screen can generate it as well (like dragging windows.

And it's terrible. Just panning my view forces my eyes to unfocus the blurring is so bad. I've used a number of different flat panels and it's never been this bad.
 
Originally posted by: Worthington
Well, moving Vertical Sync from appilcation controlled to ON fixed a lot of it.. but Vertical Sync.. blech 🙁
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If turning on Vsync helps, then you're not experiencing ghosting, you're seeing tearing. Ghosting is like a blurring of colors and/or afterimages of things you've already seen, hence the term "ghosting". Tearing is when a line or a series of lines refreshes across the screen in one direction making the video look sort of out of sync. Try either turning up the eye candy to lower the framerate, or just continue playing with vsync on.
 
yeah, Vsync only resolves some of the problems.. I still get bad blurring.. Vysnc or not.

Could it have something to do with BF2 not supporting wide screen and the stretching of the vert lines? I'm still messing with it. Those few mins of play after the swap looked great (that was without Vsync as I hadn't gotten that far). I tried recreating it but no go so far.

Thanks for the ideas though. I appreciate it
 
lol, of course (although you gotta trick BF2 into running it as it doesn't support wide screen formats. Starting to think that might be an issue).
 
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