LCD Monitor and Gaming

**Kongamato** · 02-02-2007, 02:50

My old CRT monitor died a smoky death, so I had to return it. However, the model I had was no longer in production and out of stock, so I had them send me a new LCD of comparable price.

I just got this new Viewsonic VX922, and I've got the usual problems with LCD gaming. It is extremely bright, and dark areas are now gray colored. What kind of settings and tweaks do you use to solve these problems?

**CBR** · 02-02-2007, 03:21

Generally LCD's are too bright at 100% so that can be lowered. After that has been done then you might want to look at contrast.

There are several guides out there http://www.jasc.com/support/kb/articles/monitor.asp and http://www.vanity.dk/tft/monitorTest_scale.html just as a couple of examples.

CBR

**sapi** · 02-02-2007, 08:08

I have no idea what you mean by the 'usual problems' - no one i know with a modern lcd has had any.

A decent lcd should work fine in gaming.

The brightness can be adjusted and the grey areas issue means that the monitor's contrast ratio is low.

It seems strange considering i'm running a viewsonic 22" with no problems but that's the answer....

**Beirut** · 02-02-2007, 14:52

Originally Posted by Kongamato

I just got this new Viewsonic VX922, and I've got the usual problems with LCD gaming. It is extremely bright, and dark areas are now gray colored. What kind of settings and tweaks do you use to solve these problems?

I've got the same screen. I'm very happy with mine. And yes, it is a bright screen.

Play with the brightness and contrast until you find a setting you like. You should have in-game settings that will give you the picture you like as well.

**Rilder** · 04-04-2007, 23:00

I don't know if its just me or the LCDs we got are cheap or it has something to do with resolution but they make games look crap in my opinion, my monitor, a CRT, looks 100x better for gaming then either one of our LCD's, then again I tend to sit close to the monitor (then I should :P) and its like I can see every pixel, but on a CRT sitting at the same distance I can't...

**Husar** · 04-05-2007, 02:11

That's why I bought a 17" LCD, the pixels are smaller because the resolution is always 1280*1024 for normal LCDs. But now when I play some games on my dad's CRT, the picture is completely blurry, even when reading text I feel like it's bad for my eyes.
I wouldn't go back.

**sapi** · 04-05-2007, 04:34

If you do a comparison between a decent resolution (ie 1280x1024 for 17/19in; 1680x1050 for 20/22in etc) lcd and a crt, you'll never use the crt again.

I used to believe as you do, but now I'm a convert :Grin2: