TFT Monitor Configuration

[Alias]

I bought a Philips 170S TFT monitor and I cannot configure it to look right.
Red bleeds into the fonts when they are bold and the white letters on all XP
windows and the photos online look screwy. Everything else looks fine. I
have used FPAdjust that came with the monitor, E-Color that came with my ATI
Radeon 9200 and fooled with the OSD and the video card's configuration
utility to no avail and it's driving me nuts! I am thinking of going back to
CRT.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Alias

 

[Chris Priede]

I bought a Philips 170S TFT monitor and I cannot configure it to look
right. Red bleeds into the fonts when they are bold and the white
letters on all XP windows and the photos online look screwy.

It's hard to say what's going on without seeing it, but there are a few
things that often trip up previous CRT users:

1) LCD displays are fixed resolution beasts by their nature. Always use
them at their native, maximum resolution (for yours it appears to be
1280x1024). Lower resolutions are accomplished by scaling and will look
fuzzy or have artifacts. If you were used to running Windows at a lower
resolution and things look too small at 1280x1024, compensate in other ways
(font sizes, etc.) or just give it some time and see if you can get used to
it (most do and soon come to appreciate the increased spaciousness).

2) LCDs don't have flicker issues. 60Hz refresh from your graphics card is
just fine. Higher refresh rates will not help (and may substantially
degrade the image when using analog VGA connection). Check your settings.

3) LCDs benefit greatly from ClearType. Try this:

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/Step1.aspx

 

[Alias]

It's hard to say what's going on without seeing it, but there are a few
things that often trip up previous CRT users:

1) LCD displays are fixed resolution beasts by their nature. Always use
them at their native, maximum resolution (for yours it appears to be
1280x1024). Lower resolutions are accomplished by scaling and will look
fuzzy or have artifacts. If you were used to running Windows at a lower
resolution and things look too small at 1280x1024, compensate in other
ways (font sizes, etc.) or just give it some time and see if you can get
used to it (most do and soon come to appreciate the increased
spaciousness).

2) LCDs don't have flicker issues. 60Hz refresh from your graphics card
is just fine. Higher refresh rates will not help (and may substantially
degrade the image when using analog VGA connection). Check your settings.

I have it set at its native resolution,1280x1024 at 60Hz.

3) LCDs benefit greatly from ClearType. Try this:

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/Step1.aspx

Have it installed.
Any other suggestions?

Thanks,

Alias

 

[James West]

try uninstalling it
made my LCD worse

James

I have it set at its native resolution,1280x1024 at 60Hz.


Have it installed.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks,

Alias