I just bought the p95f viewsonic

[fireforge]

And I think its the biggest piece of crap I have ever used. Its blurry above 1280x1024 I bought a "professional" monitor to ouse at high resolutions. Does anyone know why its so blurry when you play games or when you knock the resolution up. I know im useing analoge connector but should that make that much of a difference I dont remeber my kds being this blurry and thats a kds monitor. Its so horrible I wish I almost had it back.

anyone have any suggestions

 

[phsstpok]

A few things come to mind.

- Monitor could be defective.

- Do you have a Geforce3 or earlier video card? Some had bad RF filters which cause bluriness at higher resolutions. You can modify your video card to fix this but it involves removing up to nine surface mounted capacitors and bypassing up to six inductors.

- Did you try the focus adjustments on the monitor?

I just bought a budget Viewsonic E95 and it's amazingly sharp at 1600x1200 (yes, I had to adjust the focus but only once). I expected that I would be forced to use 1280x1024 for the price I paid but this was not the case. I have a Radeon 8500OEM video card. Together with the E95 output is great. (TV viewing with the VB50HRTV is great too).

<b>99% is great, unless you are talking about system stability</b>

 

[fireforge]

hey thanks for the help I have the same graphics card as you and I dont know if its defective I know when I put the resolution higher then 1600 1200 it look way way out of focus maybe its a bad monitor.. I was debateing on returning it for a flat panel hatchi.

 

[phsstpok]

If it is way out of focus I'd say the monitor is defective. Typically the focus adjustments are for very small amounts.

<b>99% is great, unless you are talking about system stability</b>

 

[fireforge]

How do you mess with the focusing on the monitor?

 

[phsstpok]

My monitor has focus controls, horizontal and vertical. These are in the control menu but they don't seem to do much. Other than these kind of controls all monitors have a gross focus control (don't know the real name of it) but it's inside the case. I don't recommend touching this unless you know what you are doing. High voltages can KILL you!

I've adjusted this focus control, exactly twice, once on each of my previous SVGA monitors when they got old and "tired". I didn't know what I was doing but I didn't want to buy new monitors before they actually failed.

If your monitor is sharp at one resolution but not at another then the gross focus control won't fix the problem. The control affects all resolutions.

I have one more thought. Is your 8500OEM a BBA (Built By ATI) or is it an ATI partner card? The latter could possibly have bad RF filters like I described with older Geforce cards. The MOD I've performed on two Geforce cards I've also done on an old ATI All-in-Wonder (original Rage2 not Radeon) but I've never done it on a Radeon or later card and didn't think it would be needed.

It's was just a thought. I've never heard of any Radeon, Radeon 8500, etc, partnered or BBA, ever having this kind of problem with RF filters. It's just that you have the symptoms, sharp at low resolution, blurry at high resolution.

<b>99% is great, unless you are talking about system stability</b>