how to increase FPS on a 2ms 22" LCD monitor?

Question

I upgrade from my 21" sony trintron crt monitor to a samsung syncmaster 226bw 22" 2ms LCD Monitor.

It seems i am getting a little bit of terring and even lower fps on most games than my crt monitor put out. I am using the DVI Connection. my system is plenty fast to run every game i have. I have had it about 4 months now and it has never had any fps problems in games until I switched monitors.

my system config:
AMD AM2 5200+ dual core oc 2.8ghz
2x 1gig sticks DDR2 800 memory oc to 4-4-4-12 CL2
(OCZ Crossfire cert memory with ATi coolers)
MSI K9a Platinum socket AM2 crossfire 3200 MB
Radeon X1950 crossfire edition 512mb DDR4
Radeon X1950xtx 512mb DDR4 in crossfire
2x 160gig sata 3.0 hard drives in Raid 0
crap tones of cooling for the overclocking.

all runs stable but im lossing fps with this LCD, maybe LCD is just a lost cause for now?

yea i am virus free and i use tuneup utilities 1 time a week along with defrag. the system runs blazzing fast on all aplications and wyhen i had the crt it got crazy fps in all my games, even f.e.a.r

but since i got this lcd my fps has dropped alot. I thought surely having this was the best gamming monitor around. It has won so many gamers choice awards and had an excellent review ratting on newegg.com. but yea maybe it is just the difference between crt and lcd that im noticing.

Oh yea, I am A+ cert also, for 6 years now. Me and my dad own a computer shop we opened about 3 years ago. I built this bad boy all by myself and aside from choosing a psu that didnt have enough juice to run all my stuff, I learned the hardway that 2 monster graphics cards and a dual core cpu uses ALOT of power and requires insane 12v+ rails

Answer 1

Did you increase the resolution when you went from the CRT to the LCD?


The monitor can not affect the FPS of a game. It is just receiving the video stream from the graphics chip. You have done something to your graphics system (increased resolution or colour depth or something) that is sucking up GIPs.

Answer 2

CRT monitors have faster refresh rates.... Hard core gamers like them better than flat screens. (Although I game using my flat panel TV (From Samsung) and it's perfectly fine for me.)

By the way, thanks a LOT for giving your hardware stats, its very helpful to people like me! :)

I'm running off of just one EVGA Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS with 320 MB of RAM and 575 MHz of GPU power... And I'm fine. Your rig seems to blow mine away....

Try updating your graphics card drivers (especially for Crossfire, which (with the external cable) is a little bit slower than SLI. Not that I wouldn't use it (its all my Asus P5K Delux mobo *can* do :p)

It could be that its a bigger screen, but it sounds like you're experiencing the difference between CRT and LCD screens.... My LCD screen is 32" and has an 8ms response time and I don't have any issues, however. Then again, I dropped CRT years ago (and mine is a TV first, a monitor second).



This is a tough one.... Try going to www.pcpitstop.com, signing up, and running their diagnostic. It helps you clean up and speed up your computer (its free, too.)

Also try this scan: http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm It cleans up your computer from viruses and malware, fixes the registry, cleans your hard disks, and defrags (if necessary.) I don't really think that the virus and malware scan is all that useful (as I have NOD32) but the registry fixer is invaluable... And no harm in some redundancy.

If you still have the problem, please email me. Click my "%100 Canadian" picture above and then click the email Icon. I'd be happy to help you more!

Good luck,

--John

Answer 3

If your running 1680 x 1050 you will loose FPS

Try running

1280 x 1024 just as a base and move up from there!

Answer 4

my brother has the same moniter, it on a similar system, yet he doesnt get it on my old compaq moniter, perhaps its just the moniter. which is surprising since samsung usually make very good LCD products

the compaq moniter is also tft btw