venomous35
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im a 40 year old hard core gamer and i bought the acer al2416w a couple weeks ago. all i can say is WOW. bf2 looks great.
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Regula Oblique said:Hey thanks for the 360 pics on the acer handstopple it does look great, im beggining to think that you get a better picture using the vga cable on the 360 than you do with the component cables. someone on the newegg.com review mentioned the same thing.
Sanctuary said:Mine is en route...will be here tomorrow. Going from a seven year old 19 inch CRT to this. Besides having a lot more desktop space, how much more viewing realestate should I be expecting? I keep reading how people expected it to be big, but were "amazed" at how big it really was. Isn't it the same height as a 19, but 5-6 inches wider?
cukes38 said:i've had the acer 2423 for a couple of weeks now and couldn't be more pleased. after comparing almost all the 24" panels on the market right now, this is clearly the best value and probably the best hands down.
my girlfriend's company bought her the new sony 23" -- and we both agree the acer looks and feels better.
HDCP is the only knock against it...and most of us don't see that as big deal anyhow.
set your desktop resolution to 1920x1200 -> done.Sanctuary said:Is there a way to keep the desktop icons, and viewing in general from looking "stretched" by default? I know that certain games do not support widescreen and some can be forced, but I'm just talking about general viewing. Is it supposed to look like this? It's kind of like watching a movie or playing a game on a widescreen television instead of 4:3...it's stretched and looks pretty bad.
Currently using a 6800gt if that helps.
*other than that* as far as the monitor itself is concerned...wow, it's very vibrant and everything looks crisp. I've only had it out of the box for about an hour now, so I haven't really had a chance to game with it yet, but I'm honestly not to worried about it anyway until I do a complete system upgrade and get a much more powerful card.
Sanctuary said:Is there a way to keep the desktop icons, and viewing in general from looking "stretched" by default? I know that certain games do not support widescreen and some can be forced, but I'm just talking about general viewing. Is it supposed to look like this? It's kind of like watching a movie or playing a game on a widescreen television instead of 4:3...it's stretched and looks pretty bad.
Currently using a 6800gt if that helps.
*other than that* as far as the monitor itself is concerned...wow, it's very vibrant and everything looks crisp. I've only had it out of the box for about an hour now, so I haven't really had a chance to game with it yet, but I'm honestly not to worried about it anyway until I do a complete system upgrade and get a much more powerful card.
Yeah I could, but I play World of Warcraft as well, and not sure the card will be capable of running that in a raid setting, even with everything set to best performance in the card options, and all of the in game options on medium. When I said I wasn't worried about gaming right now, I meant games that are actually stressful on a video card, especially at the higher resolutions.drizzt81 said:set your desktop resolution to 1920x1200 -> done.
Sanctuary said:Yeah I could, but I play World of Warcraft as well, and not sure the card will be capable of running that in a raid setting, even with everything set to best performance in the card options, and all of the in game options on medium. When I said I wasn't worried about gaming right now, I meant games that are actually stressful on a video card, especially at the higher resolutions.
Another thing, why is my text somewhat blurry? Enabling cleartype didn't seem to help. It's like part of the text isn't even drawn in fully and looks almost partially transparent, or some of the pixles are grey while others black.
Sanctuary said:It's not really doing it for me, or maybe what I am experiencing is an entirely different issue. It's not that the text is hard to read, because it's not at all. It's that there is this wierd "oil on top of water" look that all of the text has. Black looks like black with a shdow of red, green and blue and white text looks like a prism. Another thing is that if I take my cursor and slowly move it across the text, I can actually see it changing to solid colors (blue, orange, red etc). Is this normal?
I mean, don't get me wrong...everything else looks fabulous, it's just that solid black text or pure white text looks terrible to me.
there are different refresh rates for an LCD?kirbyrj said:What is the refresh rate set to?
Sanctuary said:The default, which is 60 for LCD's isn't it?
fixed.kreidel said:I could use 75hz at native res on my 2005fpw.
drizzt81 said:there are different refresh rates for an LCD?
THAT is my exact issue. 100% the same! I hope that the replacement that just arrived is better. Let's see.chaoszen said:Just Got my Acer AL2423WDR. Spent awhile hooking it up and removing my old reliable Sony/IBM 21". It worked for about 5 minutes then just started shutting down to black screen.
sethk said:Question for all you AL2423 owners - does this monitor display 16:9 content from a XBOX / XBOX 360 or HD Cable box (over VGA) with black bars on the top and bottom?
Are there are aspect ratio controls for non-native resolutions?
Thanks!