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Post by windrunner on Dec 29, 2009 4:45:37 GMT -5
Is it there any real difference for us hardcore gamers? LCD monitor owners please enlight me about it. I need to change my vet CRT urgently.
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Post by Tom Constantine on Dec 29, 2009 14:16:06 GMT -5
I don't know if you could see the difference but 2ms is better than 5ms. Its the response speed and I don't think there's a difference in FS under 8ms. (But I am not an expert!)
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Post by cptroyce on Dec 29, 2009 22:56:08 GMT -5
WindRunner- I just retired "my vet 20" CRT" as well..after many years of great service.
Bought a 24" Samsung HDef 50,000:1 Dynamic Contrast LCD monitor. It's absolutely terrific and a whole new perspective on simming and gaming...IMHO
Regards,
Royce
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Post by windrunner on Dec 31, 2009 5:01:26 GMT -5
Thanks! for what I've heard there are no extreme differences of rendition and image answer among both types; only the price!
I'll go for a 24"inches too. I'll see what I can gather around the Innsbruck malls next weekend.
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Post by windrunner on Jan 7, 2010 9:48:03 GMT -5
A little update (and an advice to ask): I finally took to home a new Samsung 22" LCD. I've spent the last two days trying to get the right colour calibration but I am not still fully satisfied and there's always something that is not looking right; in the FS side at least because all other games seems to adapt themselves properlly: the screen is so deformed and stretched that every plane looks something different (you'll have to see how long the C172 looks!). I've already tried every configuration inside the FS menu (from 1024x768 to the native resolution of the LCD wich is 1920x1080). Does someone has an idea about how solving this issue? There is a site where you can calibrate colours step by step and so on and I'm following this guide, may be it can be useful for some you too: www.lagom.nl/lcd-testThat sites reports this for my monitor: ---------------------- Resolution: 1920x1080 Description: Note: monitors for this resolution are uncommon; the resolution may not match the native resolution of your monitor. Note: your resolution does not have a common 5:4 (1.25), 4:3 (1.33), or 16:10 (1.6) aspect ratio, which means that images can be distorted. Your aspect ratio is: 1.78. Color depth: 32 bits (Truecolor, Millions of colors) ---------------------- What should I do to make FS run in a "regular" 4:3 ratio? Thanks in advance. |
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Post by cptroyce on Jan 7, 2010 13:38:23 GMT -5
WR- My Samsung has the same native resolution..1920x1080. I set that in the FS2004 settings for hardware and all worked perfectly well. No distortion; just super sharp images. So I can say that FS2004 works with that resolution. Hope that helps in some way to get you to on the right track.
Regards,
Royce
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Post by windrunner on Jan 8, 2010 9:42:46 GMT -5
Interesting royce; I've finally found the way to make it work with FS, not trough the monitor menu (wich is very "spartan") but trough the ATI Catalyst Control Center by ticking the "Enable GPU Scaling-Maintain Aspect ratio" and not "Scale image to full panel size".
I still has a lot to learn....may be my eyes has to adapt thenmselves to this new "size". I am a bit scared of how good VC panels looks. May be I'll change some of my photoshop habits as well....more detail to play with!
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Post by sgtmajor on Jan 14, 2010 2:11:13 GMT -5
Just happened on this post and was curious.
If you have a wide screen monitor now, did you change your display setting in the FS config?
[Display]
WideViewAspect=True
By default, it's set to false.
Cheers,
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Post by windrunner on Jan 15, 2010 4:42:23 GMT -5
Well, that is something else to try; I was suspicious there was something to change at the cfg too. But it seems the tuning of the LCD settings did it, and I am no sufffering distortion or fps drops by now.
By the way, I advice all LCD owners an small tool to tune up the screen: Magictune. It did it for me.
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