Flat Panel Screen vs. Conventional Monitor

J

JD

Does a flat-panel monitor place more demands on a video card than a
conventional monitor does?
Put differently, might a card that worked fine with a standard monitor be
inadequate to the demands of a flat-panel screen?
I have an Nvidia Ge Force 5200 FX card, which came pre-installed on my
Gateway computer.
The screen is a 17" flat-panel.
I get distored text in Word documents, and have tried all kinds of things to
correct it--updated drivers, reducing the acceleration rate, etc.
I find that reducing the Window size to about 60 to 70 percent of the screen
clears it up.
Might a case be made that the video card is "inappropriate" for this
machine?
 
J

JD

It has always been set at 1024 x 768.
luminos said:
things

You MUST set the display resolution to the native resolution of the
flat-panel....maybe in your case 1280 x 768.

If you do not do this, terrible distortions will take place.
 
J

Jason Tsang

If that is not the natural resolution of your LCD Monitor, you really should
consider changing it.
 
M

Malke

JD said:
I guess I don't know what "natural resolution" is. I've never changed
it from the "default," if that's what you mean. But surely I should be
able to use different settings for different purposes.

You should read the monitor manual, or if you don't have it any more,
contact the monitor's tech support. That would be Gateway if the
monitor came with your system. There is no reason that your video card
won't work well with a 17" lcd monitor - you either have something set
wrong or the monitor is faulty.

Malke
 
C

chewy

i have a samsung 17" flat screen monitor and my screen
resolutions are set smack in the middle of 1024 x 768. i
have no problem with my screen.
 
A

Alex Nichol

JD said:
Does a flat-panel monitor place more demands on a video card than a
conventional monitor does?
Put differently, might a card that worked fine with a standard monitor be
inadequate to the demands of a flat-panel screen?
I have an Nvidia Ge Force 5200 FX card, which came pre-installed on my
Gateway computer.
The screen is a 17" flat-panel.

No - on the whole they make less demand, because they run as standard at
60Hz whereas a CRT is rarely run below 75 (LCD being inherently flicker
free). Check with the display's manual that you are running it at its
'native' resolution - probably 1280 x 1024 for a 17 inch, and that you
have got it set up in correct adjustment - most have an Auto-adjust but
you may have to fine tune the 'phase' so each pixel in the signal
corresponds exactly to one on the screen
 
A

Alex Nichol

JD said:
I guess I don't know what "natural resolution" is. I've never changed it
from the "default," if that's what you mean. But surely I should be able to
use different settings for different purposes.

An LCD is made with an exact number of dots in each direction - for a 17
inch, probably 1280 x 1024 - and should have the resolution from Windows
set to match. Otherwise you find you are doing things like presenting 4
x 4 pixels over 5 x 5 dots, and it comes out looking pretty awful.
Especially as the 1280 is a 5 x 4 ratio, whereas all other screen
settings are 4 x 3
 
J

JD

I'll see if I can adjust the resolution to 1280 x 1024. However, the 1024 x
768 seems to be the "default."
Actually, I have no trouble with the screen, except in Word documents where
the text becomes blurred (lines repeated) when Word is maximized, but clears
when the window is reduced to approximately 75% of screen real estate. Have
you an idea what might be causing that?
 
J

JD

I reset the screen resolution to 1280 x 1024. I'm overwhelmed by the
difference. It will take some getting used to. Icons and text are so small,
etc.
To my disappointment, I still find text in Word docs becomes distorted when
I scroll through pages fast. Lines are repeated.
I'm about convinced that my Nvidia Ge Force FX 5200 is just not adequate.
What else could it be?
JD said:
I'll see if I can adjust the resolution to 1280 x 1024. However, the 1024 x
768 seems to be the "default."
Actually, I have no trouble with the screen, except in Word documents where
the text becomes blurred (lines repeated) when Word is maximized, but clears
when the window is reduced to approximately 75% of screen real estate. Have
you an idea what might be causing that?
 
A

Alex Nichol

JD said:
I reset the screen resolution to 1280 x 1024. I'm overwhelmed by the
difference. It will take some getting used to. Icons and text are so small,
etc.

Go to Control Panel - Display - Settings and click Advanced. There
raise the DPI value to reflect that you now have more pixels in an inch.
Ok and Apply, and maybe restart. You can then fine tune at Display -
Appearance and click Advanced. There select things in Item (notably
Icon) and for many by clicking them in the 'example' pane and change
sizes - Icon font size controls that used in Explorer too.
To my disappointment, I still find text in Word docs becomes distorted when
I scroll through pages fast. Lines are repeated.

In the Appearance - click Effects and check 'use the following to
smooth screen fonts', selecting Clear type. That is a great help on LCD
screens; though I suspect the scrolling problem is one you may have to
live with. But you might experiment with varying refresh rate - LCD
screens don't like it too high and are generally at heir best at 60Hz
 

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