Ghosting with RTA enabled. Samsung Syncmaster 226BW

[Fighting_steel]

Hi

Is this normal, that when the RTA (response time acceleration) Samsungs definition of overdrive, is enabled, there is ghosting on my new Syncmaster 226BW.
The ghosting is like a bright helo, and i can only see it on bright backgrounds, like the sky in Armed Assault or BF2.

See this little video i have from BF2. May be hard to see, but look closly on the lamp when i moved to the left.
Ghosting in BF2



It happens when moving left-right or up-down, with all thinhs that are against the horizon.

If the RTA is switched off, the ghosting is gone. But it should be the opposite. And the problem is, RTA is default on, so every time I start the computer from standby or cold boot I have to navigate through the monitors OSD to switch the RTA off. The other thing is, that, the games run smoother with RTA enabled.

Any solutions?

EDIT: quick specs are as following. E6600/2GB/Geforce 8800GTS 640MB.

 

[solaq57]

Yes, same here on an A panel, irritating, as apparently doesnt happen on the S panel

Hi

Is this normal, that when the RTA (response time acceleration) Samsungs definition of overdrive, is enabled, there is ghosting on my new Syncmaster 226BW.
The ghosting is like a bright helo, and i can only see it on bright backgrounds, like the sky in Armed Assault or BF2.

See this little video i have from BF2. May be hard to see, but look closly on the lamp when i moved to the left.
Ghosting in BF2



It happens when moving left-right or up-down, with all thinhs that are against the horizon.

If the RTA is switched off, the ghosting is gone. But it should be the opposite. And the problem is, RTA is default on, so every time I start the computer from standby or cold boot I have to navigate through the monitors OSD to switch the RTA off. The other thing is, that, the games run smoother with RTA enabled.

Any solutions?

EDIT: quick specs are as following. E6600/2GB/Geforce 8800GTS 640MB.

 

[BlueMak]

I must be blind, what ghosting?

 

[THRESHIN]

only time i noticed it was so slight i could barely see it on one of the C panels. the S was fine and the A i have now is fine.

 

[Fighting_steel]

Two guys on another forum, report that they had the same problem on theirs 226BW`s, but that i just went away for no apparent reason

 

[ToastyX]

If the RTA is switched off, the ghosting is gone. But it should be the opposite.

No, that's exactly what should happen.

Overdrive is a hack designed to reduce motion blur, but it causes trailing (ghosting) in the process. Because of that, I'm probably one of the few people that don't like overdrive. On the monitors that let me disable it, I find it doesn't really improve motion blur significantly enough to matter. All it does is make the trailing more obvious. I see trailing like that on every monitor with overdrive, although the way it looks and what it affects varies among different monitors. It boggles my mind how so many people don't notice it.