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2001fp hitching?

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Rhinohelix

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I just took the plunge and got a Dell 2001FP. My first LCD from CRT conversion. I am running it on a 3GHz P4 machine with a 9800 pro in 1600x1200x60hz in everything. I had a little of the screen door effect at first, but as my eyes adjust to is, everything become gravy. It looks fantastic, although it has one dead pixel off to the side in a hard to notice place, but here is the deal: I seem to notice not so much ghosting as "sudden jumping" in FPS; its what I would call hitching or jumpiness when scrolling about the map in RTS's. What sealed the deal for me in thinking that there was something wrong was doing the monitorsdirect.com test and seeing the four dots again "jumping" every so often. Is this common with this LCD? Are there setting to tweak to stop this? Is it a windows setting to begin with? Or should I send it back to Dell post-haste? What would one call this phenonmenon? Enough with the shotgun questions. Thanks so much for any help I in advance.

Rhino

"Ray, when someone asks if you're a god, you say YES!!!!"
 
I noticed that with my 9700 pro, it is non existent with my 800XT are you running off the DVI connector, and do you have the inf files for the monitor loaded or does windows think it is a plug and play monitor. I think its more video card related than monitor, from my experience. Try a different resolution and see if it goes away. I assume you are running at the native resolution of 1600x1200 if not that may be your problem too.
 
Thanks for your reply! to answer your questions:

1. Running at native 1600x1200 in everything
2. Using the included DVI cable
3. with the Dell-included .inf

It seems that part of my problem was that I still had several refresh rates forced with Rage3d tweak. Turning that off so that all resolutions returned to the default 60Hz seemed to help with the FPS games but the RTS games still jump as you scroll across the maps. There is certainly a "motion blur" effect as well, in which things are crystal clear when you stop but become much hazier and well, blurrier. This was not the case for FPS's though.

So this is caused by the video card? I never considered that, since none of these issues arouse at any resolution with the CRT, which I normally ran at 1920x1440. I do have a x800 XT on order but it won't be here for until the end of the month. I guess that will be that put it to the test.

Addition to my original questions, there are areas near the top of the LCD which are brighter or more brightly lit than the rest of the screen. Is that another "feature" of LCDs or is it a reason to get mine swapped out? I forgot how much I disliked being a n00bie and don't want to get stuck with a bad LCD.

Rhino

"Ray, when someone asks if you're a god, you say YES!!!"
 
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