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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?"
No
60Hz or 60Hz? Hmm, I bet he's using 60Hz.
What did you do?
I posted a 800K movie of it on Slashdot so I could suck up all the Internet's available bandwidth and make everyone else's game run at the same fps as mine. =)
Use a CRT at home, for games, DVD etc, and an LCD at work, where I edit text/graphics etc, and don't have to pay for my own hardware.
If I wanted to see a bunch of trails behind stuff whenever it moved, I'd take acid.
...that would predict how you move the mouse before hand to make up for the lag.
Also working on a WOOD resonator tube to place the cable in, directly 2 feet (stretched taunt to streamline signal) so extra force is "boosting" the mouse signal. Considering an q-entanglement setup, but it's costly. Pointer on screen should move .049 picoseconds before my hand.
DoR> Um, my mouse lags on my Dell LCD.
DoR> How's that gonna' help?
You might get even better results if you tried using the video card's outputs.
This post written under Gentoo-linux with an SCO IP license.
'nuff said.
What does your sig do?
:-)
It encourages you to learn C.
Lost: Sig, white with black letters. No collar. Reward if found!
Hey, will even throw in shipping. :)
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Everything is normal now.
The problem with the victim's computer is not a bad display driver. The problem is spyware or a virus.
My advice is to stop visiting those porn sites unless "Playboy Magazine" has certified them.
I love it how because of the widespread popularity of computer gaming, the notion of "lag" is ascribed to everything like
Teacher: Where's your quiz?
student: Pencil lag
or
jogger: 5 miles...whew...getting...breath lag
or even
Doctor: Yes, you have constipation
patient: oh, turd lag, gotcha
"Slashdot" and "unbiased journalism" in the same sentence!! COMEDY GOLD GOOD SIR
I have this monitor (2001FP) and so does my pal. I also have several other LCDs around the house. Your problem is either not the monitor is is an isolated issue.
Can I get my problem posted on Slashdot the next time I am constipated?
_________ Help me get a PSP!
Dude, no human has reflexes like that.
You're either:
a) Not human
b) Jedi
c) Stoned/Drunk
Go become a fighter pilot or something like that.
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
if i had to choose between /. and Dell for tech support, no contest, i'd be posting.
scott king
Be "cheap" in your buying habits, and you get what you deserve.
You have bought junk, now live with your decision or pay up
to upgrade.
Don't you mean "I was an IT director back in 1996 when LCDs were still shitty, but since then I've been fired off because I'm an antagonistic and self-important fuckwad"?
*Maybe Slashdot could start a hardware review section and do some unbiased hard journalism!*
how would it help with the problem of getting misinformation from clueless people who heard couple of cyberlegends, didn't read to the end of the blurb and never opened a computer in their life?
speaking of which, 80% of the comments under this article alone are totally clueless as to the what the actual problem was that the guy was having and as a consequence tell him to check the batteries on the mouse and shit like that because they refuse(not even think of ) the possibility that theres some delay caused possibly by the tft screens internal electronics(in chips that it uses to make the rgb analog signal viewable for example) or some such.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Sorry, that's my keylogger that's causing the lag; it's writing all your keyboard inputs directly to my web server instead of logging and uploading the log, and that's slowing down your system.
Please type "updateme" on your keyboard, and that will tell the keylogger to automatically update itself. Once it's updated, you shouldn't notice any lag at all.
-- If god wanted me to have a sig, he'd have given me a sense of humor.
The poster doesn't need a different monitor - he or she just needs a shorter monitor cable. It's taking way too long for the electrons to reach the screen.
I'll take a poor CRT over a good LCD anyday.
I'd take the good LCD, sell it, and buy 2 good CRTs, and a motorcycle.
Slashdot as we know it would cease to exist!
Slashdot - where else you can be utterly wrong and get hailed as informative and insightful? Yeah, yeah - I meant besides FOX news.
"The guy needs to do some other tests - if he brings up a window and types, do the characters appear to be delayed too?"
Reminds me of a guy who bought his dot-matrix printer in for repair twice because it would not print the letter K. No amount of testing was enough to convince him that this was simply not possible. It turned out his keyboard had a faulty K key, and the K was not appearing on his screen either.
"You can't fight in here, this is the war room!"
He doesn't need a different monitor, just a better cable.
Dell use standard copper cable.
Just as with audio equipment, LCD's need quality signals to produce the best results. As any audiophile will tell you, you need a minimum of high purity oxygen-free copper cable, and you need to make sure its shielded properly. It also helps if its a thick bundle of uninsulated copper strands per conductor. Don't use PVC as an insulator because the dielectric properties are all wrong, you need something like teflon.
Try something like this:
Shunyata Research Andromeda Speaker Cable
MSRP: $ 2995.00
Certified CDA-101 copper, 4x4 matrix geometry, 8 conductors of 14AWG, aggregate 8AWG cross-section, cryogenically treated on site.
That should stop the lag.
I can't get that exact product, but let me know and I'll get you something similar for the price. :-)
Followed by:
- a slick look. no gay speakers.
"Man in spandex" makes perjorative reference to homosexuality... methinks we have someone with some serious identity issues here. It's okay brother, embrace your inner woman...
Well, maybe he has, like, a reeeaally loooonng cable...
> I feel lucky that a monitor at 60hz normally looks fine to me
And all those opticians and spectacle manufacturers worldwide feel lucky too.
It turned out his keyboard had a faulty K key, and the K was not appearing on his screen either.
And thus the GNOME project was born...
When the resolution is set to 60Hz which is the lowest, the screen flickers. That is a fact.
I know. BTW, you think that's bad? The first computer I used was a ZX81 (Timex/Sinclair 1000 with 1K) attached to a PAL TV. Which has a 50Hz refresh rate... and black-on-white text.
If what you say is true, this explains why my eyes are fucked. OTOH, it could be that all the exercise makes your eye muscles stronger, like going down to the gym.
"Yeah, I *did* know that my display can go higher than 60Hz; I'm giving my eyes a workout. I'm doing a drop-set. When they can't take 60Hz any longer, I'll turn it up to 65Hz, then 72Hz... See that guy over there with the black-and-white TV with no vertical hold and bottleful of protein shake? He's the Mr.Universe of the eyeball world. I swear it's true."
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