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$249.99 LG IPS231P-B $299.99 Planar PX2710MW What do you guys think? The Planar is huge, has a nice 2ms GTG response time, and has tons of positive reviews on Newegg and Amazon. It is a TN panel though, and some of the reviews bring up concerns about backlight bleed. I expect that's going to...

Not really liking the idea of a refurb... I'm thinking either the LG IPS231 or PLANAR PX2710MW. Any thoughts on these? I can't find any reviews of the LG for some reason...

What's their policy on stuck/dead pixels for refurbs?

Since my HTPC isn't working out so well on my new plasma TV (some image retention, text is hard to read), I'm looking at shifting back to a desk + monitor setup. The question is, which monitor? My price ceiling is $300. I've been searching around for a couple days and found these likely...

The TV is 1080p and the video card is sending 1920x1080. I really doubt it's the TV. This only affects plain text. Notepad, websites, etc are all affected, but text in images, Flash apps, and Adobe AIR apps is not affected.

No, I'm using HDMI. Also my sig is out of date, I'm using a Panasonic Viera plasma now.

After getting a new display I tinkered with the Cleartype setting in Win7 to see if I could make text look better. Even after reverting all of my changes I get some very strange text behavior. At seemingly random intervals, on screen text will gradually become bolder, then gradually fade back...

Can someone with Resident Evil 5 confirm this for me? This update appears to fix the HDR rendering bug in DX10 mode, but now the water is fucked up. The reflections are all warped and distorted, it looks terrible. Did ATI just fix one bug and introduce another in the same damn game? Edit: Just...

If the FOV isn't set correctly for the aspect ratio, I won't touch it. Otherwise, I don't really care as long as there are dedicated servers at least. Fucking console generation is ruining my PC games. </bitteroldnerd>

I got my XFX 5850 XXX (my first ATI/AMD card ever) about a week ago and only had one problem. Catalyst AI was causing Borderlands to lock up, so I turned that crap off. Since then it's been fast and stable. Edit: Well, except for the Resident Evil 5 mega-ugly DX10 HDR glitch, which is...

I just switched from a Geforce 8800GTX to a Radeon 5850 and so far it's running great, but there's one issue I can't resolve: the default contrast and brightness are terrible. Blacks are gray and whites are blown out way too much. I can fix this on the desktop, but apparently not in games. I...

Supply and demand! The cards aren't shipping in large enough numbers to meet demand yet, so the prices are still high. The prices will drop as availability improves.

How does the Bing cashback thing work? Do you have a link to the item that would should the Bing discount/cashback/whatever? As if nVidia drivers don't drive me nuts at times. I recall swapping mine like crazy trying to resolve rampant Fallout 3 crashes.

Yeah, I've been out of the video card loop for a long time and I can see that I've missed some pretty important changes. Thanks a bunch for the suggestions; it definitely looks like ATI is the way to go at the moment. It'll be an interesting experiment if nothing else, as I have never owned an...

Thanks for the suggestions. This BFG 285 seems reasonable at $379.99. But then there's this XFX 5850 for $309.99, but I'm not familiar with ATi cards and drivers, so I'm not sure how it compares. What do you think? I'm not crazy about waiting until March, because I know I'll actually be waiting...

I'm thinking about upgrading my 8800GTX since it seems the next generation of nVidia cards is forever going to be over the horizon. I've reached the point where I have to bump some newer games (RE5, Borderlands, Red Faction: Guerrilla, Dragon Age, etc) down from 1920x1080 to 1280x720 to keep it...

I did, and I also downgraded while trying to figure out the problem. This has been happening for a while though, I don't think it has anything to do with the drivers.

I have an 8800GTX (details in sig) that I've been using for a pretty long time now. Lately it seems like I'm having freezing issues in games more and more. The odd thing about these freezes is that they seem to affect the video only. The audio and gameplay processing appears to continue...

Great write-up. Good to see people writing about games sometimes actually play them: "And you learn a lesson from the whole thing, because you should have been wearing your Thief’s Ring, now shouldn’t you?" Walking around in World 4 without the Thief Ring on is like dropping the soap in...

I guess "entitlement" is the word of the day (year?) for people who live for the status quo. You go on enjoying the lowest common denominator if you like, just spare the rest of us your snarky posts in the mean time.

Since I did a clean install of Windows 7 Home Premium, flash videos embedded in web pages will not play full screen properly. I can get them into full screen for about 10 seconds, then they just pop back out of it. This happens on various websites (youtube, gametrailers, Netflix instant watch)...

Not renewing. The game is fun but the support is a joke.

Pre-ordered the PS3 version. PSN = Rehevkor

You're not supposed to load your game. The idea is that you drop an item, leave the area, and come back. When you return the crow has swapped your item for something else. You can just force this to occur instantly by loading the game. I'm not sure how this is a problem anyway. I like games...

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Is there some way I can get 5.1 sound from older Directsound3D games in Windows 7 with my HT Omega Striker 7.1 card? I know Creative cards have the ALchemy software to do this, but I was wondering if there was some hack/trick/workaround that I could use to force OpenAL in games using this...

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2, WipeoutHD

The word you're looking for is "vaporware" (yes, it can apply to hardware as well).

I had issues with it in Windows 7, but they were mostly resolved by setting it to run in XP compatibility mode. I still get weird driver issues when inside dungeons for some reason, but if I alt-tab, wait a few seconds, then alt-tab back in, everything is ok for a while.

Resident Evil 5 will use up to 8 cores, and lots of recent games use 4.

WoW is a bad example. It's an old engine that Blizzard keeps cramming higher and higher poly-counts into, which it can't handle efficiently. The core rendering engine there is probably almost the same as when the game launched. There are better looking games that run better than WoW on older...

Yes, my existing cooler does have a retention bracket installed. So I should be able to use it with a new cooler like the Xigmatek you mentioned, right? I really don't want to take everything out of the case just to mount a retention bracket for a new cooler.

I have a Dynatron P985, slightly better than stock I guess. I hadn't planned on overclocking when I bought it, heh. Ah, I hadn't realized you could use any PCI-E slot. I assumed that it had to be an SLI-capable board. I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the info!

Based on these replies it sounds like it isn't just me; there really isn't an obvious choice this time, so I guess the smart move is to wait until there is. Maybe I'll scale my resolution in the newer games back to 720p for now, that way I can bump it up when I finally do upgrade and replay...

I guess it isn't just for DX11, but also getting a newer, faster card in general. Plus I don't like having graphics options that I can't turn on. :) I know that DiRT 2 at least will have DX11 support, and I am looking forward to the game itself.

Not with the newer nVidia drivers. Besides, my motherboard isn't SLI, and I don't have any plans right now to rebuild the whole thing. Just looking at the video card. It's been a looooong time since I overclocked a CPU. Would I be able to push it far enough on air cooling to actually make a...

I've always used nVidia cards, not out of any fanboyish loyalty, but because my upgrades always seem to come at times when nVidia's cards were getting the best performance. Until now, anyway. nVidia hasn't put out a new chip in a while. AMD's DX11 hardware is just around the corner, whereas...

It's basically Mass Effect's dialog mechanics seamlessly integrated into a very slick and fun looking Star Wars MMO. It's a recipe for guaranteed awesomeness.