Strange problem with my LG226WTQ

basmic

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Ok, been a great monitor so far - bar the top of the monitor being ever so slghtly darker than the bottom.

Basically I've noticed in a few games, sometimes when I'm turning I see a ghost/coloured shadow - initially in Unreal Tournament, then FEAR, and also Half-Life 2 when I tested further.

I thought it might be my drivers, so uninstalled them, ran DriverCleaner, and reinstalled them. Still got the shadowing! :mad:

Determined to get the root of the problem, I ran FRAPS to see if it was a graphic card problem, or actually my monitor. I couldn't see the ghosting in the FRAPS video file, so I'm certain it's this monitor - great! :rolleyes:

Anyway, I've bought the monitor from a competitor - just over two weeks ago. I'm wanting to know if I'll be better of replacing this thing for another monitor of the same model - or should I try to get a refund and get a Samsung, and risk the panel lottery?

Link to video (4.04MB, ZIP file).
 
I have just received 2 of those screens from a competitor as well eek!

Haven't noticed any problems yet

sid
 
i noticed with my monitor other day, that the image sometimes splits, the top half moves faster then the bottum half, is this graphics card or monitR?
 
this is your V-sync (vertical sync) basically, this means that your card is dishing out more frames p/s than your monitor can display so it goes out of sync and start to tear the image. the way you get around this is very simple, if your using an nVidia card, you can go into nvidia control panel and find an option called "force vsync" and it will limit your fps to 59 or 60 depending on your refresh rate of the screen. not sure about ATI but im positive that it is just as easy (lol)

(btw, 60fps, is useually what it will cap it to. it will still look really smooth and crisp so dont worry when it drops from 100,000fps and you think that it will look crap, you wont notice a difference)

hope this helps.
 
Basmic ,

Both my screens do excatly what you said,

I can't discuss RMA or anything here,

Please email me trust

sid
 
looks like some overdrive artefacts there sadly, something which other users and some reviews have acknowledged. I mentioned it originally

The LG L226WTQ and Samsung SM226BW are both pretty popular. The Samsung is perhaps a little better establiashed, and there have been some reports of poorly controlled overdrive on the LG model (including overdrive artefacts and overshoot)...i wont go into it too much now, but Xbitlabs had a good review of it here which is worth a read :)
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some people spot it, some don't, unfortunately it seems you are having issues with it :( The Samsung SM226BW could well be a better solution :)
 
Baddass said:
looks like some overdrive artefacts there sadly, something which other users and some reviews have acknowledged. I mentioned it originally



some people spot it, some don't, unfortunately it seems you are having issues with it :(
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Mine are 2 days old

What do you reccomend?

Is this a defect?

sid

edit/ just arranged an RMA for refund

sid
 
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Anything wrong with samsung 245B apart from viewing angles?

sid

edit/ The ghosting problem can be fixed by changing panel type in service menu.

Link to thread on competitors so email me .

sid
 
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Basmic, did you try what Bathing recommended below?

B@Th*nG said:
this is your V-sync (vertical sync) basically, this means that your card is dishing out more frames p/s than your monitor can display so it goes out of sync and start to tear the image. the way you get around this is very simple, if your using an nVidia card, you can go into nvidia control panel and find an option called "force vsync" and it will limit your fps to 59 or 60 depending on your refresh rate of the screen. not sure about ATI but im positive that it is just as easy (lol)

(btw, 60fps, is useually what it will cap it to. it will still look really smooth and crisp so dont worry when it drops from 100,000fps and you think that it will look crap, you wont notice a difference)

hope this helps.
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Baddass said:
looks like some overdrive artefacts there sadly, something which other users and some reviews have acknowledged. I mentioned it originally



some people spot it, some don't, unfortunately it seems you are having issues with it :( The Samsung SM226BW could well be a better solution :)
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Serves me right for being a cheap skate, I suppose. I thought I could trust LG. :(

Oh well, Samsung is being delivered tomorrow, and LG is being picked up for return.
 
sid said:
Anything wrong with samsung 245B apart from viewing angles?

sid

edit/ The ghosting problem can be fixed by changing panel type in service menu.

Link to thread on competitors so email me .

sid
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Do you get this?
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No backlight problems or colour banding

It only fixes the errors caused by the RTC/overdrive problem (i.e. ghosting)

Looks like you've got a different problem there now

sid
 
sid said:
No backlight problems or colour banding

It only fixes the errors caused by the RTC/overdrive problem (i.e. ghosting)

Looks like you've got a different problem there now

sid
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Had it since day one, and I get bad colour banding in monitor calibration programs. :(

Oh well, Samsung SM226BW is coming tomorrow. :cool:
 
basmic said:
Had it since day one, and I get bad colour banding in monitor calibration programs. :(

Oh well, Samsung SM226BW is coming tomorrow. :cool:
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Lets hope you get a good panel

I've got RMA numbers for my LGs but I think I'm going to keep them as I don't see any immediate problems with them.

sid
 
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