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"Inglo" <ioo@??.żżż> wrote in message 
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> On 4/2/2006 5:41 AM McGrandpa brightened our day with:
>> "John" <address@server.com> wrote in message 
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>>
>>> Hey all!
>>>
>>> I'm looking to get myself an LCD monitor, at least 19", as well as a new 
>>> vidcard that supports DVI (prolly some BFG NVidia).
>>>
>>> Are there any LCDs that are better than others when it comes to games 
>>> like Quake, CS, etc.?
>>>
>>> What particular specs should I be looking for?  (such as: pitch, 
>>> contrast ratio, resp. time, etc.)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> In the end, it will be a choice made from what YOU like in what you are 
>> seeing ON it.   I have a pair of Samsung Syncmaster 930B monitors running 
>> on this rig right now.  They are both on the DVI ports of one of my 2 
>> 7800GTX's.  One is six months older than the other.  The picture is 
>> slightly different between them.
>> What I saw and wanted when I got one:
>> High contrast and bright level.  There are better ones today for the same 
>> money.
>>   Look for the depth of blackness, that is important too.  Look for it 
>> being 8 bits per pixel rather than 6 as these are.  That really shows up 
>> in the smoothness of dark areas.  Speed, 16 ms response time or less, for 
>> gaming and movie watching.   slower response times give you ghosting or 
>> motion blur.  there are a LOT of good ones to choose from, in many 
>> brands.  And for a gamer, look for the higher resolution.  Greater than 
>> 1280x1024.
>> Enjoy hunting!
>> McG.
>>
>>
> I never really thought about that "depth of blackness" part.  That's one 
> thing on my Sony LCD, playing a dark game like Doom 3, sometimes it looked 
> a little off.  There's wasn't a real dark black, the absence of color was 
> more a deep gray.
>
> How you enjoying Oblivion McG?  I could never get into Morrowind, but I 
> spent close to 4 hours making my way to Kvatch today.
>
> -- 
> Cthulhu for President in 2008. Why vote for a lesser evil?
>
> Steve ¤ťIngloŤ¤
> www.inglostadt.com

It's a beautiful game.  There is a lot to do in it without ever touching a 
quest.  They're not really my interest, exploring the world is.   I haven't 
made it very far anywhere really, I've found a couple caverns close to the 
Imperial City and between crashes....play in those.  The AI of the NPC's is 
quite interesting I think.    I'll work on talking to bandits rather than 
fight and see what happens.
Frequent CTD's, that is the thing I don't like about Oblivion.  I'm still 
playing with my settings.  It plays very smooth in 1280x1024 with everything 
on and cranked up in SLI.  Perhaps I need to change drivers.  One second I'm 
playing and the next I'm looking at the desktop.
Happy Easter Steve!
McG.