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strobing on looks dull

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cugine

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Hi,

I bought the BenQ XL2420TE and I downloaded strobe light by toasty. I notice when I enable strobe light, my screen gets much darker and it's too dark for gaming. I haven't calibrated this monitor nor do I know how. Is there any suggestions for calibrating + getting strobelight to look better when enabled? Right now, I have the 'standard' monitor profile selected.
 
One other note.. I am using the DVI-D connector to my 690 GTX. Any reason to use anything other than that connector?
 
ctrl-alt-9 is the shortcut to increase the strobe brightness to 9, the other numbers adjust brightness too.

If you just press the menu button on your monitor you can manually change it too, just mess around with the settings they aren't hard to figure out.
 
I also set the brightness to 100, it didn't help with strobing enabled.
 
Loss of brightness is normal for strobe backlight modes (e.g. nVidia's LightBoost, Sony's Motionflow "Impulse", Samsung's SA series 3D Mode, etc) due to the black periods between strobes. Brighter backlights can compensate for this. CRT phosphors shine insanely bright during their flickers, and LED backlights are just only barely getting "there" in brightness to compensate for the dark period between strobes. Some people have hacked LightBoost monitors to create a brighter strobe (see Electronics Mods of LightBoost), but that's if you have some basic soldering iron knowledge.

That said, there are some easy picture settings found in the LightBoost FAQ that you can try, to make the LightBoost colors better, although it generally won't fix the brightness issue. Also try out 100Hz LightBoost for a brighter LightBoost picture than 120Hz. Also try using strobe modes only during evening/night gameplay too. I actually have to dim it to about 50% or less at night, as 100% is too bright for me except during daytime or in a bright room.
 
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