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Why do some games ghost worse than others?

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gusk1200

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So I jumped into the LCD world, and ordered the Dell 1905fp. I was counting the days until this bad boy was delivered. I even went out and bought a GeForce 6800 so I could have a DVI for my video. I replaced an ATI AIW 9600XT which worked pretty well, but not as well as this baby. Anyway, I made sure to install all the drivers, and set it up the games to work in their native resolution. Half-Life 2 even recognized the 1280x1024 resolution was for my LCD. So I fire up the game at some save point and I start to play. Well, everything is ghosting as if I was tripping on LSD, but it was my LCD. I don't know why, but it seems like whenever I would look at an NPC, I could just see major ghosting when moving the screen left to right.

However, I played some Doom 3 and it seemed MUCH BETTER. Maybe it's because the game is sooooo dark. I tried World of Warcraft and I noticed a little ghosting there too. I'm not sure what to do. Counter-Strike looks ok, with not too much ghosting. Is there anything I can do to make it blur less? Does anyone else out there have a 1905fp and have similar gripes? I was thinking that the 20ms refresh wouldn't be MUCH worse than a 16ms FP. What's the deal?
 
Contrast. Doom III is dark, very little contrast. HL2 has much more. Same priciple pplies to aliasing.
 
You know the interesting thing is, I was playing Counter Strike which has a lot of contrasts, and I didn't seem much blurring there. It seemed like, when I was looking at one of the 3D characters, like the video card processing the monitor through the DVI was lagging. Is there any way to tweak the game to make it refresh faster or something? I'm not getting this, since I'm new to LCDs.

Some people say you need a <16ms screen to play games. Others say that they play games on a 25ms screen with little to complain about. It seems like my 20ms should be okay, with little blurring. But on HL2, it seems to blur more than it should. I think I'll try some other levels and see if I see any difference.
 
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