desertjedi
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About two weeks ago I got a 22" Samsung 2232BW at Best Buy. I ended up returning it because it had a strong blue dominance (which couldn't be corrected through LCD controls) and bad backlight bleed. It was a 'CMO' panel. While I had it, I noticed that the LCD was also way too bright. No matter how I set the brightness/contrast, I could never get a bold, clean white that wasn't a result of "over-driving" the brightness and contrast.
So next I order a 22" Viewsonic vx2240w. My current LCD is a 19" Viewsonic VP903b which, I will soon find out, is an excellent LCD. I boot the vx2240w. The colors are a little off (not that bad) but there's no horrible blue cast like there was on the Samsung. There's no backlight bleed at all on the sides, about 1/8" on top and 1/4" on bottom. Not bad except that the screen is simply too bright when I display a completely black picture. It's so bright it seems to almost have a bluish tint.
Like the Samsung, the Viewsonic is simply way too bright. I screw with the brightness/contrast and finally get something that won't burn my eyes out but the white is not "bold" and "clean" and the bottom half of the screen is brighter than the top half ever so slightly.
Next, I crank up The Witcher and load a savegame in the sewers - a dark level with light streaming in through some grates. The game now looks like the someone went nuts on the contrast. Wooden barrels no longer look like wood but more like metal that's had a welding torch applied and now has viscious highlights. Manipulating b and c controls does not help. This situation was the same with the Samsung.
Next, in a totally bizarre twist, I load up a Vietcong jungle map and its totally washed out like someone turned the contrast way down and the brightness way up. I expected it to have intense highlights like The Witcher. I think the problem is that the map is simply way too "lit up" and the blacks are just "gone".
I use an inexpensive Dell 17" LCD at work and prior to last night a 19" Viewsonic at home. Both were able to produce extremely bold colors and clean whites without over-driving the brightness/contrast. With these LCDs, the display was perfectly easy on the eyes. With the two 22"-ers I've tried, it's like someone is shining an overly bright light through a picture.
Is this just the way it is with current LCDs as brightness ratings keep going higher and higher? Why such a difference going from 19" to 22"? It would seem that I'm going to have to get involved with making profiles for all my games now. If I was using an ATI card, it'd be no biggie since Tray Tools totally rocks but I have an 8800 GTS 512 and gaming profiles have never been a strong point of Nvidia. can anyone recommend a good third-party (no CCC plz) "Nvidia" app for profiles?
One thing to note is that I have not installed the Viewsonic drivers but I seriously doubt it will make any difference.
So next I order a 22" Viewsonic vx2240w. My current LCD is a 19" Viewsonic VP903b which, I will soon find out, is an excellent LCD. I boot the vx2240w. The colors are a little off (not that bad) but there's no horrible blue cast like there was on the Samsung. There's no backlight bleed at all on the sides, about 1/8" on top and 1/4" on bottom. Not bad except that the screen is simply too bright when I display a completely black picture. It's so bright it seems to almost have a bluish tint.
Like the Samsung, the Viewsonic is simply way too bright. I screw with the brightness/contrast and finally get something that won't burn my eyes out but the white is not "bold" and "clean" and the bottom half of the screen is brighter than the top half ever so slightly.
Next, I crank up The Witcher and load a savegame in the sewers - a dark level with light streaming in through some grates. The game now looks like the someone went nuts on the contrast. Wooden barrels no longer look like wood but more like metal that's had a welding torch applied and now has viscious highlights. Manipulating b and c controls does not help. This situation was the same with the Samsung.
Next, in a totally bizarre twist, I load up a Vietcong jungle map and its totally washed out like someone turned the contrast way down and the brightness way up. I expected it to have intense highlights like The Witcher. I think the problem is that the map is simply way too "lit up" and the blacks are just "gone".
I use an inexpensive Dell 17" LCD at work and prior to last night a 19" Viewsonic at home. Both were able to produce extremely bold colors and clean whites without over-driving the brightness/contrast. With these LCDs, the display was perfectly easy on the eyes. With the two 22"-ers I've tried, it's like someone is shining an overly bright light through a picture.
Is this just the way it is with current LCDs as brightness ratings keep going higher and higher? Why such a difference going from 19" to 22"? It would seem that I'm going to have to get involved with making profiles for all my games now. If I was using an ATI card, it'd be no biggie since Tray Tools totally rocks but I have an 8800 GTS 512 and gaming profiles have never been a strong point of Nvidia. can anyone recommend a good third-party (no CCC plz) "Nvidia" app for profiles?
One thing to note is that I have not installed the Viewsonic drivers but I seriously doubt it will make any difference.