Rogue Keeper on 1/8/2008 at 13:23
Quote Posted by 242
LCD won battle with CRT only because people generally tend to choose merchandise in beautiful wrapping
And unimportant trivialities such as lower energy consumption, no radiation, no eye strain, easier recyclation, light weight, more space on work desk.
I myself still have CRT, but once it kicks the bucket I happily switch to LCD, because summed up, it has more advantages than disadvantages over CRT.
242 on 1/8/2008 at 13:48
Quote Posted by Matthew
Define 'much'. Then factor in inflation.
4-5 times more, inflation didn't influence that much. Those LCDs that now cost 250USD have incomparable worse picture quality than my Mitsubishi Diamond Pro CRT that I bought 4 years ago for that sum, and only 700-1000USD displays start to show something that can be comparable, more or less.
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And unimportant trivialities such as lower energy consumption, easier recyclation, light weight, more space on work desk.
I don't care about that at all :)
Modern CRTs don't radiate electromagnetic rays in front of them, well, they radiate, but their harm is lesser than harm of lets say bread your eat or rain you catch.
Depends on individual I guess. I read many people complained LCDs lamps emitted so strong light even with minimal brightness that they just couldn't bear it.
Rogue Keeper on 1/8/2008 at 13:50
I just can't stand these reactionaries apologizing the unapologizable. :devil:
Matthew on 1/8/2008 at 14:30
By the way, I apologise if my post came off as being snarky - it wasn't meant to be.
The_Raven on 1/8/2008 at 22:20
Quote Posted by 242
Modern CRTs don't radiate electromagnetic rays in front of them, well, they radiate, but their harm is lesser than harm of lets say bread your eat or rain you catch.
That reminds me that most of my CRTs are from the early 90s. Maybe I can get a good hand-me-down from someone I know sometime.
D'Arcy on 2/8/2008 at 15:33
I just threw away my old huge CRT (a 17'' LG Flatron) because I had no room for it at home, and no one would accept it even if I tried giving it away (besides, the image was becoming a bit blurred in the corners). I'm quite pleased with my 19'' SyncMaster 940BF, but I still think that the quality and fluidity of the image was much better in CRTs.
I'll probably be changing monitors again soon. The graphics card on my new machine practically demands that I get a widescreen monitor.
mgeorge on 2/8/2008 at 19:18
Quote Posted by 242
It seems to me that Stalker, as well as DM, is set to some display mode/refresh rate by default that your monitor can't handle.
Try to override 3d resfresh rate via your graphics card's settings. F.e. for ATI it's CCC > Display Options > 3d resfresh rate override
Thanks for the advice. Unforutunately it didn't work.
I finally noticed, just before the crashes, the monitor goes black and there is some sort of message about about analog input or something along those lines. The crash happens so fast it's hard to make out exactly.
I installed the latest driver for the monitor and while in the device mgr I noticed an error for an "oreans32" driver that doesn't appear to be installed on the comp at all. When I try and start the service it tells me it can't find the file. I've heard this file could be suspicious, however I've also heard that it is a legit Win file, so not sure what to think. At this point will try anything to correct this problem though.
242 on 2/8/2008 at 19:32
Open Documents and Settings/All Users/Documents/STALKER_SHOC/user.ltx and check the line
rs_refresh_60hz
if it's off, change it to on.
mgeorge on 2/8/2008 at 20:57
Thanks again.
While looking for the folder you referred to, a warning from AVG suddenly popped up saying that while I was trying to open Stalker, a Trogan Horse was found. This was odd because I never tried to open Stalker, was just using Explorer to find the folder.
Anyway, told AVG to heal the infected file and out of curiosity decided to try and run Stalker. Was told it couldn't find the exe, and that re-installing the program might help. I uninstalled it and running a virus and malware scan now. So apparently I have some other issues causing it not to run. I thought it was odd that a monitor would cause these problems anyway, but couldn't think of anything else.
Uggg. Don't really want to re-install Windows but may have to. Thanks for your help.
Koki on 2/8/2008 at 21:05
Quote Posted by 242
LCD is a dead-end way because the principle of picture creation itself is unnatural to human eye.
what
