Hanns-G HW191D Thread (Now £107.95 @ OcUK)

Socaddict · 10 Sep 2006 at 09:00

bazbarlow said:
I think Im going to get myself one of these on Monday Just a few more questions to put my mind at ease.

I will be using this monitor primarily for gaming. Can it be confirmed that this monitor is sound for gaming? In particularly, DoD Source...

My main game is DoDS, and It runs that fine. Looks gorgeous, and widescreen gaming is the way forward.

ReeMISM · 10 Sep 2006 at 09:38

You can up the refresh rate to 75hz in display properties.The monitor tab you can change it there.

Richdog · 10 Sep 2006 at 10:50

Robbie G said:
I believe you have to crack it. Widescreen gaming forums have a crack for it.

Nope it's native... I run COD2 at 1680*1050 and that is definately selectable in-game and looks perfect.

Participant · 10 Sep 2006 at 11:10

Richdog said:
Nope it's native... I run COD2 at 1680*1050 and that is definately selectable in-game and looks perfect.

You are right. Mine runs fantastically at 1440 x 900 straight from the "box"

- I was probably getting mixed up with CoD1.

Jack Bauer · 10 Sep 2006 at 12:34

ReeMISM said:
You can up the refresh rate to 75hz in display properties.The monitor tab you can change it there.

its only giving me the option of 60 Hz, thats at a res of 1440 by 900.

Joe42 · 10 Sep 2006 at 14:55

As its a tft, refresh rate makes no difference to anything and its better to have it lower i believe as its less work for the gpu.

Borden · 10 Sep 2006 at 15:23

Joe42 said:
As its a tft, refresh rate makes no difference to anything and its better to have it lower i believe as its less work for the gpu.

If i have my refresh rate set to 60Hz on my 17" tft then i get horizontal 'bands' waving down the screen. It's especially noticeable on the forums or other things with a large amount of the same colour.

Joe42 · 10 Sep 2006 at 16:29

mark1 said:
If i have my refresh rate set to 60Hz on my 17" tft then i get horizontal 'bands' waving down the screen. It's especially noticeable on the forums or other things with a large amount of the same colour.

Have you tried pressing auto adjust when you see those bands? I used to get 'wigglies' on my old tft and pressing auto adjust on a screen where they showed most fixed it.

Borden · 10 Sep 2006 at 17:34

Joe42 said:
Have you tried pressing auto adjust when you see those bands? I used to get 'wigglies' on my old tft and pressing auto adjust on a screen where they showed most fixed it.

Never actually tried that. It only used to happen after i installed new drivers and it reset the refresh rate to 60Hz. I just changed it back to 72Hz and it was fine.

Bubo · 10 Sep 2006 at 19:33

Joe42 said:
As its a tft, refresh rate makes no difference to anything and its better to have it lower i believe as its less work for the gpu.

You absolutely sure about that? I have a VX922, supposedly the gamers tft of choice and at its max refresh rate of 75Hz I can clearly tell the difference when doing fast twitches in COD2 compared to my crt. Please tell me I am doing something wrong because at the moment the tft is being used as a secondary display as the crt gives much better fps performance for my eyes.

Joe42 · 10 Sep 2006 at 20:00

Bubo said:
You absolutely sure about that? I have a VX922, supposedly the gamers tft of choice and at its max refresh rate of 75Hz I can clearly tell the difference when doing fast twitches in COD2 compared to my crt. Please tell me I am doing something wrong because at the moment the tft is being used as a secondary display as the crt gives much better fps performance for my eyes.

I read somewhere that the only reason there is a refresh rate is to maintain backwards compatability with crts, but i'm not sure.

Thinking about it, a tft could have a refresh rate but i think it just changes whatever pixels it needs to change when they need changing rather than refreshing the whole lot.

I would imagine the difference you're seeing is the response time of the tft which will never be quite as good as a crt. I believe response time has nothing to do with refresh rate on a tft.

bazbarlow · 12 Sep 2006 at 15:02

My monitor arrived today. All working fine - no dead pixels or anything.

One problem is DVD playback- its rubbish! Way too dark and when you brighten it up the picture gets full of noise.

Any advice on this. I use Power DVD.

Joe42 · 12 Sep 2006 at 15:10

Are you using the vga? I hear that dvi gets rid of the noise. It also may get better over time.
I've yet to try dvd playback on mine but video playback is fine, and i did notice some noise when using vga but none at all using dvi.

bazbarlow · 12 Sep 2006 at 16:05

Yeah Im using VGA, not got round to buying a DVI yet. I'll try one of them then

Feels strange coming from a crt to this. DoD seems a bit more laggy and things like that...

Im not entirely sure what to think of it.

Do you think A dvi would improve its performance quite abit?

Joe42 · 12 Sep 2006 at 16:39

Dvi got rid of noise for me, but it was barely noticeble anyway.
I've moved from a crt to two of these and i don't find i notice the lesser response time at all.

Cyber-Mav · 12 Sep 2006 at 19:59

i just ordered a HU196D. will post to say how it is when it arrives.

bazbarlow · 12 Sep 2006 at 20:06

Ive lowered some game settings and it seems to be peforming better now. Must have been struggling with the jump from 1024x768 to 1440x900.

Ordered a dual DVI-D - DVI-D cable. Hopefully it will sort out the dreadful DVD playback Ive been experiencing.

VeNT · 13 Sep 2006 at 12:31

burtieb1 said:
Its from http://browse.deviantart.com/ but i can`t find it again as i did not save it myself

its going to be somewhere on your system, as your PC will need a copy for it to display!

Jack Bauer · 14 Sep 2006 at 09:44

Well I gamed well on the monitor for the first time, must be getting use to it. Im not noticing the delay compaired to my CRT like I was. Then again I have just put a DVI cable on but I cant se how this would make a difference.

Found a good wallpaper site with free 1440/900 res images.

Link

enjoy

steinooo · 14 Sep 2006 at 16:23

cant find much argument between Belinea 1925S1W owners and Hanns-G owners about what is best on these boards.

I'm a gamer, but mainly just desktop use with a DVI capable 6800, and I dont know which is best out of Belinea and Hanns-G, can anyone sell me one or the other please?