My old 17" CRT was finally starting to show signs of aging, so I figured I'd bite the bullet and see if LCDs really had progressed as much as people claimed (as far as gaming is concerned). I decided to go with the ViewSonic VX922, and overall I'm pretty impressed. Gaming performance is excellent. I'm not sure if it's anywhere near the advertised 2ms response time, but it's fast enough that I don't notice any ghosting in WoW (haven't tried any other games, recently had to reinstall windows and haven't installed any yet).
I have a question for other LCD owners though. I connected it to my 6600GT with the DVI cable and the color setting defaulted to sRGB, and does not allow me to adjust the brightness or contrast on the monitor. That isn't much of a problem, because I can still make adjustments in the nvidia control panel, but the odd thing is that at the default brightness (100%), contrast (100%), and gamma (1.0), the display is overbright and washed out. I ran the color setting applet and after playing with the gamma levels I got it to look fairly normal, but when I went back into the color control panel I was surprised to see that the gama adjustments I made resulted in a gamma setting of 0.77. That doesn't seem right, and when I went into WoW and told it to use desktop gamma, it seemed a little too dark.
I guess my question is, do LCDs normally require such a drastically lower gamma setting? Or should it really be closer to 1.0, and what I think is overbright is just too many years of being conditioned on a dull CRT?
I have a question for other LCD owners though. I connected it to my 6600GT with the DVI cable and the color setting defaulted to sRGB, and does not allow me to adjust the brightness or contrast on the monitor. That isn't much of a problem, because I can still make adjustments in the nvidia control panel, but the odd thing is that at the default brightness (100%), contrast (100%), and gamma (1.0), the display is overbright and washed out. I ran the color setting applet and after playing with the gamma levels I got it to look fairly normal, but when I went back into the color control panel I was surprised to see that the gama adjustments I made resulted in a gamma setting of 0.77. That doesn't seem right, and when I went into WoW and told it to use desktop gamma, it seemed a little too dark.
I guess my question is, do LCDs normally require such a drastically lower gamma setting? Or should it really be closer to 1.0, and what I think is overbright is just too many years of being conditioned on a dull CRT?
for red/green) and set the gamma to something like 1.6 or so. It actually ended up looking quite good in the end, but I was rather surprised at how much I had to tweak it before it started to look anywhere close to 'right'.
