Blurry graphics

[simonthes]

Hi

I just changed monitor from a crt to a tft and ofc had high hopes for a great picture - however in civ the graphics become extremely blurry when i scroll.
On my crt the picture was always very sharp. Is this just the way it is or am i missing something - any1 else experienced the same?

thx

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Set Civ's graphics settings to the native resolution of your monitor, and it should improve.

 

[simonthes]

nope its not that kinda blurry - u mean when u 1200x1000 on a widescreen - right?
then its blurry all the time.

here the it only gets blurry when i scroll - else its very good.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

nope its not that kinda blurry - u mean when u 1200x1000 on a widescreen - right?
then its blurry all the time.

here the it only gets blurry when i scroll - else its very good.

Oops. Dopey me, I didn't read it right, sorry.

What kind of graphics card is it?

The other possibility might be that the refresh rate on the monitor isn't fast enough for fast graphics. It needs to be less than 5 ms for fast motion. Some low end monitors aren't fast enough.

 

[simonthes]

gfx is a ati 4850 and the momitor is a samsung t220

 

[Ansive]

Probably shouldn't bump this...

It's not the fault of the drivers or the graphics card (I have a radeon 4870 and a 24" Acer 243W LCD). Some LCDs have really, really bad blurring. People coming from CRTs notice this the most.

Civilization looks great on my monitor... as long as I don't scroll, lol. How bad is the blur on my monitor?... When I scroll horizontally I can't read the city name or production queue... heck I can barely make up the population number, not to mention that the landscape looks like a bloody mess. If you don't have this issue give yourself a pat on the back for picking a decent LCD, lol.

I couldn't believe just how blurry Titan Quest looked when I was moving the character on my brand new spanking 24" 2ms LCD compared to the old 17" CRT I had.
Every game that features scrolling or an isometric view (à la Diablo) will blur like hell. (shooters hurt as well)

Solution? Get an LCD with as little blur (ghosting) as possible. Some 2ms sets are good (definitely not all of them, test if you can... drag windows across the desktop at the least)
Or... just get one of the new real 120Hz '3D' LCDs. While the 3D part isn't important these monitors have really good responsiveness. (will do this as soon as one that features 1920x1200 resolution pops up, currently they only go up to 1920x1080)

As of now the best gaming LCD (TN panel) has 0.15 frames of blurring (mine has 1 frame )
http://www.digitalversus.com/acer-gd245hq-p357_7352_38.html

Oh and... careful... once you start to see blurring... it cannot be unseen
Simple blur test http://img1.lesnumeriques.com/pub/autopromo/Remanence17.html (can you read the text? is the image clear?)