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Does Your LCD Play Catch-Up To Your Mouse?

Posted by timothy on from the it-wants-to-eat-your-pointer dept.

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?"

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  1. Check your graphics card by rjstanford · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I've never seen this behavior on the desktop or any of my laptops. Your bad, I'm afraid.

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    And yes, for the grammar police, I meant "Your bad," not "You're bad," which has a completely different meaning. To the slang patrol - yeah, its a colloquialism. My bad.

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  2. hmmmm... by EngMedic · · Score: 0, Redundant

    have you tried maxing out the refresh rate? that generally helps.

    and dude, GIYF. good god.

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  3. To the submitter by rd_syringe · · Score: 0, Redundant

    However, nowhere, and I mean *nowhere* did I read about LCDs having an input lag on them.

    Perhaps there's a reason for that?

    And how would it be possible for a monitor to have an "input lag" anyway? This is hilarious.