I may need to replace my monitor and I was wonder if anyone has had
experience with LCD monitors and racing games like F1C or GPL.
Thanks!!!
Not necessarily true, unless you measure a Radeon 9700 Pro and a GeForce 4
Ti4200 as comparable cards. First off, you're not saying what game you're
playing. I have a LCD 18", and with my GF4 Ti200 FIC runs perfectly fine at
1280x1024x32. Now with Nascar 2003, I drop down a bit and never run the
game in 32 bit, usually running in 1152x864. But even with most of the
options on and running N2003 in 1280x1024x32 I get at least 40 fps, full
field, in the back, with all cars drawn. I just prefer to get a bit higher
so I run in a lower resolution.
And of course the processor speed might have something to do with it, also.
But I disagree with your opening statement-- and especially for F1C-- you
don't need all you say you need (LCD).
Alanb
> > At 1280x1024, you really need at least a Radeon 9700 Pro or better or
> frame
> > rate will be compromised. The alternative would be to run a GF4 Ti at
> > 1280x1024x16bit to maintain good frame rates. GPL is the exception - it
> > runs in 16-bit and only 36fps so most half-decent video cards are
capable
> of
> > that.
> Not necessarily true, unless you measure a Radeon 9700 Pro and a GeForce 4
> Ti4200 as comparable cards. First off, you're not saying what game you're
> playing. I have a LCD 18", and with my GF4 Ti200 FIC runs perfectly fine
at
> 1280x1024x32. Now with Nascar 2003, I drop down a bit and never run the
> game in 32 bit, usually running in 1152x864. But even with most of the
> options on and running N2003 in 1280x1024x32 I get at least 40 fps, full
> field, in the back, with all cars drawn. I just prefer to get a bit
higher
> so I run in a lower resolution.
> And of course the processor speed might have something to do with it,
also.
> But I disagree with your opening statement-- and especially for F1C-- you
> don't need all you say you need (LCD).
> Alanb
I have a Radeon 9800 Pro with a Hitachi 19" TFT and it's SUPERB for racing
It's crystal clear but at high speeds you get a TINY bit of blurring that
basically acts as motion blur.
I love it
Doug
I may run 'fine' but unless the CPU is very slow (<1.5GHz) the graphics card
will easily be the bottleneck.
Andrew.
There are some fairly good ones coming out now Dan with pixel response rates
<25, which i think is good enough for smear-free ***. I'm still not
convinced at the minute either, but i'm open to changing my mind.
Ash
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I am sure that CRT's offer a better image quality, but to get a huge
CRT (19" or up, which is equal to my LCD in screen size) you'd have to
reinforce your desk for the weight and the physical size.
>>There are some fairly good ones coming out now Dan with pixel response rates
>><25, which i think is good enough for smear-free ***. I'm still not
>>convinced at the minute either, but i'm open to changing my mind.
>>Ash
> Reponse timing is not an issue with me when it comes to *** on an
> LCD so let's discount that as a reason not to buy an LCD now. All you
> non LCD gamers are always bringing that issue up and it really is not
> as big an issue as you think it is. The only issue I have with LCD is
> that they do not display gradations in the dark tones as well as CRT.
> In games that use lots of dark areas it is quite noticeable.
Gerry
So don't tell me that with the processor at 2.4, using a GeForce 4 Ti4200,
you can't run games in 1280x1024 and still get good frames.
Alanb
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I would think that would be good enough. I tried a Samsung 19" LCD at Best
Buy and the smearing was terrible!!! I think it was the 191t or the 192t.
From what i have read most of the 17" monitors have a better response time.
I wonder if the 17" lcd would look a lot smaller than my 19 crt? Thanks
again guys for all the input.
The ScreenSavers on TechTV covered this a while back, and the LCD's they use
on-stage for their Thursday LAN parties seem to be ok. They are
NEC/Mitsubishi 1880's or something like that.
-Larry
-Larry