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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?"
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.
if i had to choose between /. and Dell for tech support, no contest, i'd be posting.
scott king
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!"
Well, maybe he has, like, a reeeaally loooonng cable...
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...