Anyone playing on an IPS monitor?
Kamamura
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I bought a new display, mainly for films and such (my gaming TN panel does not cut it), and strangely enough, I see no ghosting and such, but my accuracy has seemingly dropped a lot as skulk. I see no visible ghosting or stuff. The panel is Dell P2414H, input lag was measured to 4ms, GTG response time is listed as 8ms, ISO 16ms or so. It seems a good panel overall, I am just curious about your experience, how can display affect accuracy.
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/dell_p2414h.htm
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/dell_p2414h.htm
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I went from a fast gaming tn 60Hz panel up to 120Hz lightboost with vsync. That immediately increased my accuracy by a noticeable amount, so it doesn't surprise me that you've noticed a drop off moving to ips, lovely though the picture quality is!
If this game had a lot smoother frames, I would consider it.
Not saying this applies to you, but I do wonder how much people's complaints about visual smoothness in this game actually relate to their 60Hz (and often worse fps!). It really does make a massive difference: your eyes see so much more information, turning is smoother, tracking is easier. The first time you go from 60Hz to 120+ (especially with lightboost at 120 - it's better than 144Hz for me), it's like the world is in slow motion, and you have so much time to react to things that you were having to panic/twitch at before.
Wow bf3 and 4 dont hitch and choke for you?
Have you ever tried circle strafing any object while keeping your crosshair on it?
You should see notable hitching when doing so due to their method of rendering. (Farcry 3 had this too until they patched it months later.. BF3 has always had it, and BF4 is no change)
I've never noticed any of this hitching in BF3. Only hitching I get is in NS2.
Some time ago I wanted to see if you could still get CRTs but in widescreen high res form so I'd have no ghosting etc. I think I saw a 1080p one for about $2500 lol.
PS: How is the anti-glare coating on that monitor? Is it light or heavy?
However, (most of you probably already know), interesting reading here:
http://www.blurbusters.com/
They explain that the blur problems originate not from slow grey to grey pixel transitions, but from image retention inherent to LCD technology, hence the lightboost success. However, I cannot stand flickering image, it made my eyes red before in times of CRTs (even on 80Hz).
I play on a dell S2240L IPS monitor usually and I never notice ghosting in games.
Is that 78hz without frame skipping, text blurring, or any visual errors? Also, how are the blacks with the hard 3g coating? I'm thinking about grabbing this IPS because it looks like it doesn't use PWM flickering that usually rapes my eyes.
Please test here for frame skipping if you don't mind - http://www.testufo.com/#test=frameskipping
BF3 had always run liquid smooth for me. I moved from a 120Hz 42" display where I played BF3 all the time and it was fun. The sound stuttered for me though.
TF2 and CS:S stutter for me, though, until I learned about the windows 7 problem, and I am currently researched the possibility of effecting NS2.
I am just curious since every TV I have tried to hook up has hella-blurring and other fun stuff from the 60hz input signal.
As for my personal experience with it, going from the CCFL TN Benq monitor with PWM, even this P2414H without PWM is slightly harder on the eyes. The light is somewhat harsher, more blueish (I did rough calibration, the colors are OK, but the character of the light is just different). On the other hand, the colors are more vivid, beautiful even, I watched some movies on both for side-by-side comparison, and the TN panel really looks like a make-up of an old, tired woman. Also, the P2414H features superb stand that allows you to switch to portrait mode and adjust height, a feature missing on other monitors.
The color uniformity is good, there is only very slight backlight bleed in the lower part of the monitor. What is noticeable though, on maximum brightness are slight darker area by the bottom margin of the monitor, like "darkness bleed", so to speak. It does not bother me, though, because it's not noticeable during regular use.
The panel uses 6bit+FRC color depth, and on images designed to show the effect, slight "snowing" is noticeable. Again, nothing that would bother you during normal use, but it may contribute to eye strain.
Solid panel overall, and very cheap for what it offers. One thing I miss is a HDMI port for my PS3, but an adapter and a separate audio cable took care of that, just a bit of extra cost to mind, though.
That sucks. Could it be you're adjusting to a new monitor?
http://justgetflux.com/
@mrradicaled
Have you tried doing what i suggested about though? There's no hitching or issues unless I do that, with fps less than 60.
Dell should have more than enough OSD options. Try dropping the B value to make the image a bit warmer.
Well here is what the tftcentral admin reviewer (the review link you posted) had to say when linked here:
He said his unit didn't give him any issues. Most likely yours is just not calibrated properly.