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

Joe42 · 7 Jul 2006 at 19:09

You find them fine stretched, or are you finding that all your games support ws?

Thats very reasurring, as the game stretching issue is the one thing preventing me from buying a couple of these...

-|ScottFree|- · 7 Jul 2006 at 23:39

Tried quake 4 and Enemy Territory at 1280 x 1024 and it still looks no different. I have to say, Im blown away by how vibrant and colourful they are. There is no issue with tearing whatsoever.

G cards used are the Nv6800 GT and the Nv5950.Both look stunning and have no problem running both at forced or native resolutions, or idd being streatch from 4:3 to widescreen.

matt_fsr · 11 Jul 2006 at 12:18

Just got one of these babies landed on my doorstop this morning, and OCUK were kind enough to refund me the price difference as I'd ordered it about 4 hours before they sliced another tenner off it - nice of you :-)

I'll let you all know how it compares to my ageing Sun 20" CRT, as soon as my 12 hour shift is over - what lovely timing

Never mind - 3 days off to enjoy it coming up!

xxalxx · 11 Jul 2006 at 18:39

just ordered two of these myself, tho I better give one to the missus to use or I'll not live long enough to use them

what will I be using it for : WoW + CS which both support WS modes

Al

Quick question : How do you switch between inputs on these monitors, on my LCD in work, you have to trawl through tons of menus, very very annoying.

EDIT : Link to the manual HERE

sanofi · 18 Jul 2006 at 21:41

I;m tempted to get this monitor too as a WS replacement for my LG Flatron L1720b 17" TFt.

Can someone post pics of a game running at 1280x1024? Just to see what the stretching looks like.

danupsher · 18 Jul 2006 at 22:13

sanofi said:
I;m tempted to get this monitor too as a WS replacement for my LG Flatron L1720b 17" TFt.

Can someone post pics of a game running at 1280x1024? Just to see what the stretching looks like.

Ive only got one game that doesnt support widescreen, and thats the sims. Which is not the best example to show you.

But here is a stretched sims, imo perfectly playable.

sanofi · 18 Jul 2006 at 22:57

That doesn't look too bad. So for games where you can manually set the resolution the screen displays as normal and for ones where you can't and say you want to play at 1280x1024, the vertical pixels get squashed from 1024 into 900?

danupsher · 19 Jul 2006 at 08:13

sanofi said:
That doesn't look too bad. So for games where you can manually set the resolution the screen displays as normal and for ones where you can't and say you want to play at 1280x1024, the vertical pixels get squashed from 1024 into 900?

yes, or you can get a program that puts bars on the side if you wish.

sanofi · 19 Jul 2006 at 09:11

Placed my order for one last night so hopefully it will arrive tomorrow.

Luke · 19 Jul 2006 at 11:03

I'm really impressed with mine! Zero dead pixels.
Hope you are as happy with yours.

Joe42 · 19 Jul 2006 at 11:53

danupsher said:
yes, or you can get a program that puts bars on the side if you wish.

Can you?

Byron5184 · 19 Jul 2006 at 16:31

Ive got a 256mb GeForce 6800 GS and im thinking of getting this monitor to run as a second monitor to my standard 19 inch tft running 1280x1024. would i have any problems running dual screen setup with this gfx card, performance issues etc..? thanks.

DBSE_Snake_XE · 19 Jul 2006 at 17:44

I just received this monitor yesterday morning, and I am extremely impressed with it! It is an upgrade from a dodgy Hyundai 17", so I guess that's understandable.

I'm running a GeForce 7800GS, and while most games that don't support widescreen are perfectly playable stretched above 800x600, does anyone know what software I should use if I want to maintain the correct aspect ratio? Thanks in advance.

Hamish · 19 Jul 2006 at 17:52

Got one of these for a budget system for a mate and i'm quite suprised at how good it is! No dead pixels that I can see and the picture is pretty good. Its stood next to my 20" Dell at the moment and the picture is almost as good.

Joe42 · 19 Jul 2006 at 21:45

DBSE_Snake_XE said:
does anyone know what software I should use if I want to maintain the correct aspect ratio? Thanks in advance.

Nvidia drivers, but they only work on a few monitors and this isn't one of them.

willthepirate · 20 Jul 2006 at 00:29

is there an AV input?

DBSE_Snake_XE · 20 Jul 2006 at 01:12

Joe42 said:
Nvidia drivers, but they only work on a few monitors and this isn't one of them.

After setting up the monitor with a DVI cable about an hour ago and trying out the aspect ratio timing options in the driver, I can confirm this. Bummer. Is there no other way to attain the correct aspect ratios on this monitor?

willthepirate said:
is there an AV input?

Not that I can tell. You can always hook up something like an Xbox 360 to the VGA, though, which is a plus.

sanofi · 20 Jul 2006 at 22:32

Just received this monitor and I'm very happy with it. No dead/stuck pixels.

sanofi · 26 Jul 2006 at 18:44

Anyone know if there are drivers for this monitor? I can't seem to find anything on the Hanns site.

Joe42 · 26 Jul 2006 at 19:00

DBSE_Snake_XE said:
After setting up the monitor with a DVI cable about an hour ago and trying out the aspect ratio timing options in the driver, I can confirm this. Bummer. Is there no other way to attain the correct aspect ratios on this monitor?

Nope. You can look up hacks for individual games on widescreen gaming forum but its a lot of bother. I have asked nvidia about this and with any luck they might enable it on all ws monitors in the next driver update.