Originally posted by: 9nines
Xtknight or anyone,
I just got a 20wmgx2. It looks great. I was wondering if you help on a few issues.
One ? on best text viewing:
Sometimes text looks great and sometimes (as in when I am in Word) it does not. For example, on most web pages and only text under desktop shortcuts, text looks very good. On a minority of web pages and in applications such as Word, it does not look so good. In the latter cases, it looks pixilated and zaggy.
I figured that has to do with the Sharpness setting but I tried the full range and I really only notice any difference at the very lowest range (like below 7.0 or so), as text gets blurry ? anything over 8 or so, seem to look the same all the way to 100.
I know what you mean. It's because of the lack of decent anti-aliasing in Windows. You either get it razor sharp and harsh looking, or you have to use ClearType, which ends up being just the opposite of what it is called. All you can do is improve the source. It's really not the monitor's fault despite it seeming that way. This will happen with all high-contrast LCDs. Lowering the brightness might help. Calibration doesn't do much for aliased text.
16.6 is the 'no processing' (default) value on the NEC 20WMGX2, to my knowledge.
Two ? overall settings, for gaming and web browsing:
My main use, when image quality matters on my machine is playing FPS and Online RPGs and general web browsing.
I have seen your recommendation on settings and tried them but never saw you recommend a Sharpness setting.
For my intended use what do you recommend for:
?1 Brightness
?2 Contrast
?3 Sharpness
?4 Advanced DV Mode (on/off?)
?5 DV Mode*
?6 Color **
My brightness and contrast settings will probably look like crap on yours unless you also use my gamma profile. But I will post that as well.
1. 21.0% (0.24 cd/m2 black)
2. 93.0% (160 cd/m2 white)
3. 16.6% (no add'l processing)
4. Off for general usage, rarely On even for entertainment
5. Standard (no add'l processing)
6. Calibrated user settings: R=77.6%, G=74.9%, B=78.4% (sRGB@6500K)
Gamma profile:
nec20wgx2_20070107_6500.icm
Apply with software such as
xcalib.
Some additional info:
You lose some colors when adjusting gamma. I could use native so I didn't lose anything but color accuracy suffers. I prefer losing the colors in favor of having more accurate ones.
> xcalib -loss
( Resolution loss for 256 entries:
R: 16 G: 17 B: 19 colors lost )
* (you and many state ?standard? but ?gaming? and ?movies? seem a nicer blue and dark ? also, even in ?Standard?, I still see some banding, if graphics seem to be pictures in lower resolution, such as some on splash screens or web pages. Is the banding the only disadvantage to you on the other settings like ?gaming? and ?movies? or are there other advantages?)
There are only about two small mistakes in the gradient in standard/text mode for the 20WMGX2. The rest of the gradient looks as expected on an LCD. Movie, gaming, and photo modes affect the gamma and adversely affect quality (note: store settings).
** (I like ?native? as well, as you have posted before but have you found any good custom RGB settings?)
I have listed my calibrated ones above.
Three ? on scaling:
Also, as many have stated you can not get good 1:1 scaling and can not set the Exapnsion mode on DVI-PC. But if you set DV Mode, under Tools to DVI-HD you can then change Expansion setting but the picture is flickering as if it is a CRT on low frequency. Do you know what the DVI-HD is? Why the flickering? Can you set it to DVI-HD then change Expansion settings then put it back to DVI-PC, to get that Expansion setting chance for DVI-PC? I tried this a few times and once, a lower resolution game did have bars but later when I played the game again, the bars were gone and the image was stretched to full screen again and I have not got back to bars again, trying to force it again. Any ideas on this? Is it just and ATI card issue and Nvidia does work for 1:1 scaling on this monitor?
Thanks for any help and your previous informative posts.
With my LCD set to monitor scaling and DVI-HD I can not get any expansion options to appear over DVI. NVIDIA can do 1:1 if the video card does the scaling and outputs 1680x1050. ATI, for the most part, can not do it properly at all though some 10-series Radeons (Xnnnn cards) apparently can.