Re: LCD's and WoW
- From: centurijon <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 19 Nov 2005 04:59:42 GMT
isbat1@xxxxxxxxx wrote in news:1132340003.841044.166930
@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:
> I regretted getting an LCD monitor at work so much that I whined until
> I got my CRT back. It looked like everything was lagging. Even
> typing into Notepad was bad. I could see the cursor repainting too
> slowly as I typed. If I could type faster than the monitor could deal
> with properly, I can't imagine what it would be like playing WoW on it.
> This was with a DVI connection, too.
>
> I nosed around and tried to find some setting to fix the problem. One
> thing I saw was that the LCD monitor was "optimized" to work at
> 1280*1024 @ 60 Hz. I could push the refresh rate as high as 75 Hz and
> still get a signal, but with a loss in picture quality that was worse
> than the way it looked just running at 60 Hz.
>
> I haven't been a hardware monkey since the days of IRQ and DMA, so
> maybe there was some voodoo I could have done to get it working
> perfectly, but neither I nor deskside support could make the LCD work
> suitably for me. So here I am once again collecting radiation from my
> good old CRT (while walking uphill in the snow, and enjoying it).
>
>
sounds to me like your company just got you the cheapest of the cheap LCD
monitors
I currently play WoW on a 19" LCD and don't regret anything for it
check out neovo as a manufacturer, I got a pretty good price for mine
.
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