How do you setup an LCD monitor?

[mo786]

Giving my VX2025m another try (after it was too big!)

Apart from the manual controls on the actual monitor are there any other ways to get the best performance for my own tastes? the monitors doesnt seem to come with anything other than a cruddy manual and the drivers.

 

[Baddass]

set it at native resolution obviously of 1680 x 1050 and make sure you're running at 60Hz refresh rate. Then you can play with brightness, contrast and RGB settings from the OSD or from your graphics card drivers. Something like this monitor calibration wizard might well help you do the latter stages

 

[daven1986]

i plug it in, set the correct res. then press auto. turn the brightness down then go game

 

[mo786]

set it at native resolution obviously of 1680 x 1050 and make sure you're running at 60Hz refresh rate. Then you can play with brightness, contrast and RGB settings from the OSD or from your graphics card drivers. Something like this monitor calibration wizard might well help you do the latter stages

I am running at 1024x768 at the moment as native res is a bit too small for me - but it looks fine to me...

Gonna install the nVidia control panel software and see what that does.

 

[daven1986]

i'd set it to native and turn up the dpi in appearance settings as native res is much clearer and nicer

 

[mo786]

Nice diea - the windows stuff gets bigger but websites stay some - some of the ones i visit look tiny and are almost unreadable - plus images liek the 'post reply' on this forum r a tad small....?

I am offered the following resolutions - does anyone know which ones are 'true widescreen' for my monitor? i think the aspect ratio is 16:10

1680 x 1050
1600 x 1024
1600 x 900
1360 x 768
1280 x 1024
1280 x 960
1280 x 800
1280 x 768
1280 x 720

i am currently on 1280 x 800 - which seems ok...

 

[marc2003]

16/10=1.6 - so you just work out that for any res - if the answer is 1.6 then the aspect is correct....

1680/1050=1.6
1440/900=1.6
1280/800=1.6
etc

 

[mo786]

16/10=1.6 - so you just work out that for any res - if the answer is 1.6 then the aspect is correct....

1680/1050=1.6
1440/900=1.6
1280/800=1.6
etc

Cheers - had a feeling it would be something liek that - i wonder why i am not offered 1440x900 - seems like a good halfway house between optimum res and what i am on now...

 

[Baddass]

you should be able to fiddle around with IE settings to get it working right....20"WS is a small dot pitch, but running outside of native res can give quite an IQ hit

 

[mo786]

you should be able to fiddle around with IE settings to get it working right....20"WS is a small dot pitch, but running outside of native res can give quite an IQ hit

I am running firefox..any ideas?

I'd go for the bump in res if i could get everything to go up in proportion...i'll have to check it out.

 

[daven1986]

i find that if i run a monitor out of res then it gives me a headache - not in games but for text etc.

 

[fish99]

If you're not going to use 1680*1050, then 1280*800 is the next best option by far. 1024x768 is 4:3 so everything will be horizontally stretched.

 

[Baddass]

I am running firefox..any ideas?

I'd go for the bump in res if i could get everything to go up in proportion...i'll have to check it out.

should be option in view > text size > increase....

or you can hold ctrl on the keyboard and scroll with the roll-wheel on your mouse (assuming you have one)

 

[mo786]

should be option in view > text size > increase....

or you can hold ctrl on the keyboard and scroll with the roll-wheel on your mouse (assuming you have one)

That only changes text size - which makes websites look odd if the pictures does not also move up with them

i asked the question on FF forum and this is what i got

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=503770

i'll try em out later and report back.