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Can LCDs cause choppiness?

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Mojo

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I just got my LCD yesterday and on MOHAA it seems that the games have been choppier. Is this just server fault or can an LCD actually cause this?

My LCD has 500:1 contrast ratio and 12ms response time. If that helps. Also my ping in the games was very good, around 50-80ms.
 
I don't think your monitor will effect the "choppiness" of a game, MAYBE if you have the refresh rate way down. Try the game in singleplayer, with the graphics turned down, or a less intensive game: that way, if it doesn't chop, you know it's your CPU/memory/videocard and not your monitor.
 
What should my refresh rate be set at? I currently have it at 60hz.
 
it's probably the monitor.. i can't play games on lcd's... it hurts my eyes too much. I guess maybe some people don't notice it, but it drives me mad.
 
My LCD has similar specs to yours and I don't notice any choppiness. But then again, those are my eyes looking at the screen so opinions might differ. I've found that I need to turn on VSync in some games (paricularly Doom 3) or the picture tears on me. FWIW my refresh rate is at 60 which seems to be common for LCDs. If I were you I'd try turning on VSync and see if that helps. The only drawback is that it caps FPS at 60 which I don't mind as long as the game runs and looks smooth.
 
After close speculation, it is my video card. I tried going into other servers with less people and the problem is non existant. Looks like I'll need a 6800 to run this monitor at native resolution 1280x1024. It does have minimal backlight leakage and a dead pixel, but I've heard of a lot of other people having hugely worse problems than that with their LCDs. And I've seen screenshots of backlight leakage that simply towers over mine in severity. So all in all I'm pretty happy with it, but definitely not 5/5.




EDIT: I also have one further question for all you LCD goers. My BenQ FP937, as I mentioned has minimal backlight leakage. I don't notice any when the screen was totally black like on my screen saver. I was wondering if since the black is perfectly reproduced when I'm looking at my screensaver, does that mean by flipping settings I should be able to get better results in games for backlight leakage?
 
Are you running the game at a higher resolution now with the new monitor?

If you are then it's bound to run slower.

Try putting it down a little,
 
EDIT: I also have one further question for all you LCD goers. My BenQ FP937, as I mentioned has minimal backlight leakage. I don't notice any when the screen was totally black like on my screen saver. I was wondering if since the black is perfectly reproduced when I'm looking at my screensaver, does that mean by flipping settings I should be able to get better results in games for backlight leakage?
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I have the FP937. Have you played around with the settings? I currently have my settings at 30 brightness, 50 contrast and 60 to all colours which was setting which were suggested on the board. It seems to bring the colours and the black/grey out a lot more, while not having a brightness 'bleach' effect. See if those settings help.
 
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