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Does Your LCD Play Catch-Up To Your Mouse?
Dishes of Ryan writes "I fell in love with the idea of an LCD monitor, so I ended up buying a nice, shiny Dell 2001FP. However, nowhere, and I mean *nowhere* did I read about LCDs having an input lag on them. For instance, if I scoot the mouse across the screen, there is a noticeable delay between when I move the mouse and when the cursor moves. To prove it to people, made a video showing exactly what I mean. You can almost forget being king of the hill on twitch FPS games like Unreal Tournament. Are there any other Slashdotters out there that are as annoyed as I am? What did you do?"
Oh, come on now.. You cant honestly think we are going to believe you didn't know that there is a lag with LCD displays?
Haven't you EVER seen a laptop before? Or even a F-ing digital watch?
Geez...
That's like claiming you didn't know cigarettes were bad for you when you are in the courtroom suing some tobacco company..
Sure,. mod me down as flamebait.. but this is pretty much common knowledge/sense these days...
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To be perfectly honest, I HATE LCD's. I think they look like crap compared to a nice CRT that costs a third of the price.
I'd love to know what the hell you're talking about. Modern LCDs actually look BETTER than CRTs. I should know. I just upgraded from a Trinitron to a 17" KDS LCD screen. The picture on the KDS is sharper than ANYTHING I've ever seen. The text is amazingly readable, better than any machine or LCD I've ever used.
But it's nice to know you have the confidence to pretend you know what you're talking about.
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What, no SlashDotter has posted this before? Try a different OS, which means different drivers. Radical, but it'd probably work.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
I think this is an ATI issue - my friend had the exact same problem on his ATI Raedon 9700 with two CRT's.
In his case only the primary display had no latency.
Oddly enough (not to play fanboy here) this is not an issue on the 6800GT I have.
Apparently there's a lot of fucking pricks out there on Slashdot. Yah, this guy made a mistake, something every damn one of you has done before. Don't label this poor guy a loser. You all are looking like a bunch of mother fucking heartless bastards; you're hypocrites. It's people like you that make the world hell for everyone... Forgive me, it just disturbs me seeing all this hate coming from mere humans...
Okay, I have a 19" Sony Trinitron tube at 1600x1200x85hz sitting side by side with a 17.1" Samsung 172x LCD doing 1280x1024x"75hz" (16ms refresh).
There isn't any difference in lag. Visual quality is higher on the LCD. You are an idiot.. You are an idiot...
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