Nec 2470WNX is Ghosting

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phalx

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I just hooked up my brand new Nec 2470WNX which I selected for its color reproduction and all round goodness. However, I chose this panel also because its suppose to have no ghosting.... but I am getting plenty of ghosting in my games. Green objective points leave a purple wake as I pan around in World in Conflict Beta. When I scroll through the battlefield in Dawn of War: Dark Crusade, images blur and then stabilize as I stop to select a unit. Every single review I've read on the NEC 2470wnx boasts how there is no ghosting. I've tried various settings with no result, and I'm stuck on it, so I come to the forums and beseech your expert aid. Any explanations/suggestions for this phenomena are much appreciated !



p.s. sys specs - GeForce 8800 GTX, Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU @ 3.00GHz, 2046MB RAM
 
That's because the overdrive is crap and people are blind. I hate to put it that way, but people have been claiming "no ghosting" for almost every monitor made in the last few years, even the ones that clearly do have trailing.

Overdrive is a hack designed to reduce motion blur by basically overshooting the target color so it gets there faster. The problem is it causes inverse or colored trailing in the process, but many people don't seem to notice it somehow. That's why I hate overdrive, but most monitors seem to have it these days. Some overdrive implementations are better than others. I find the overdrive typically used with S-PVA panels to be the worst. They have the worst trailing, and they also add lag. This NEC has an S-PVA panel.

There's a small chance the overdrive in your monitor is defective, but I doubt that's the case.
 
A-HA! Case closed then. Thanks a lot for the response... a quick one too !
 
Maybe a lot of people use brightness/contrast settings that make it harder to see the ghosting? It's weird but on my FW900/A7217A CRT, I can see ghosting in certain parts of games with a lot of contrasting between darkness and white objects. And I thought CRTs didn't have that issue. :D
 
UrielDagda said:
Maybe a lot of people use brightness/contrast settings that make it harder to see the ghosting? It's weird but on my FW900/A7217A CRT, I can see ghosting in certain parts of games with a lot of contrasting between darkness and white objects. And I thought CRTs didn't have that issue. :D
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its not ghosting, its persistance due to phosphors in the CRT(Its colour independant and relies on a contrast difference).
 
kleox64 said:
its not ghosting, its persistance due to phosphors in the CRT(Its colour independant and relies on a contrast difference).
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Somtimes I swear it's my eyes doing it. lol.. Wonder if that means I am sensitive to that kind of stuff.
 
I have a 21 inch Gateway (can't remember the model #). For the most part I do not see any ghosting on that display, except every once and a while. Sometimes I can see ghosting when there are contrasting colors, but it is only at random. I can then go back and play through the exact same map, and that time I will not see any ghosting at all. I think it has to do with how long my panel has been on. I have only seen this happen a couple of times and I have had the monitor for over a year now. Maybe the NEC is the same way.
 
Some monitors have certain "modes", like desktop mode, gaming mode, etc.. sometimes overdrive is turned off on one of these modes. Does the NEC have anything like that?
 
There should be a setting you can use to disable overdrive, otherwise you could try to keep sending them back as defective until they just give you your money back. Or try to sell it on ebay and buy a proper panel :p
 
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