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?"

Comments

Re:Nah, need a different OS

[DenDave]

Ok, maybe a little off topic but I recently discovered another problem with flatscreens in general which, to my knowledge, cannot be solved with drivers or OS.. Namely colour calibration is a disaster. I can imagine it has to do with the chemistry involved in the monitors. Nonetheless for calibration with software like Photoshop or the GIMP (which unfortunatly has not much in color calibration currently) the flatscreens are way out of whack with ICC (Int. Color Consortitium) profiles meaning that you cannot do much in the way of photo editing and graphics work for laserjetting or even Epson inkjets.. Something to think about if you enjoy photography...

Re:"posted by timothy"

[Inda]

He's not.

I modded one of the editors offtopic 6 months ago and haven't modded since. I actually modded both his "not talking about the game" posts as offtopic as... um... they were offtopic.

pfffft.