Help from a Dell 2007WFP Owner Please

[pr8cjb]

No, it's not about banding - it seems that issue has been resolved / reduced in the new revisions.

I've had my 17" Iiyama E431S for ages, and it's been perfect. No dead pixels, great scaling, good colour, no ghosting. However, it's time for a change and with the 2007FPW on special offer, I'm very tempted to go widescreen.

I'm wondering how it handles very low resolutions - such as MAME games. Pac-Man runs at 288x224 and currently my monitor scales it up nicely, filling the screen vertically with black borders left and right. If I set the Dell to 1:1 I'll get a tiny image in the middle of the screen, which is not good. However, if I let it scale it, will it stretch the image to fill the widescreen? Or will it just throw a wobbly at being given such a small resolution?

There's also been some posts in the (many) fora I've read about movie noise. Can anyone who owns one comment on DivX & DVD playback - atm the only noticeable problem on my screen is large greyish (e.g. smoke) areas go blocky, though that could be the compression as much as the screen.

Finally, I'm currently running a XFX 6600GT 128MB PCI Express card (plus Athlon 64 3500+ and 2GB RAM). I'm not a big FPS fan (more RTS stuff) - will it cope to a reasonable extent?

Thanks for your help guys.

 

[v3n0m_dk]

with the upgrade in resolution from 1280x1024 to 1680x1050 there will obviously be more sretching of the image, ive personally had no issues with scaling on this monitor, altho others may say different, badass is the one to check it with,

as for dvd's, jsut sat through Gone in 60 seconds, and Scary movie 4, the image quality was excellent and no visible ghosting at all, so, depends on how good the previous tft you had was.

i upgraded from a Relysis 17" crt, and the difference is absolutley massive, would never go back.

 

[fish99]

2007WFP has three scaling modes, 1:1 - no stretching, fill - where the image is always stretched to fill the whole screen, and 4:3 - where the image is stretched but with a 4:3 aspect ratio. I've just tried a few games in Mame and using 4:3 mode it seems to work ok, you get a big border left and right and a tiny border top and bottom (not sure why but it's not big enough to worry about IMO).

As for movie playback, the noise isn't caused by the monitor as such, it's just the mpeg compression, and also I think software DVD playback contributes to it as well. However this monitor does seem to show that noise more noticeably than some other TFTs. Also the black depth isn't great, which can be a problem if you want to watch films in a dark room.

Finally about games - if you need to use the monitor in native res then clearly 1680*1050 is quite a high res and will stress out your 6600GT more than 1280*1024. It's 34% more pixels. A very demanding game like Company of Heroes would definitely run slower in that res. You can always just run games in 1280*800 though which looks a little blurry but it's not too bad really.