Is this normal for a fast response time monitor?

[Barls]

So I just recently bought a 1ms monitor and it's my first one I've ever owned. I've noticed that when I scroll up or down on a page with a lot of words, theres a trail of the word in white. Is this normal, or is there something wrong with my screen?

 

[BrandonYoung]

That doesn't happen on my Asus VE278Q's. What kinda monitor do you have? If its similar to my screens, there is a option in the monitor menu that allows you do adjust "Trace Free" if its set too high/low it really makes things look weird. I use Trace Free of 40 (0-100).

 

[4745454b]

Sounds like you have an old 16ms monitor and not a 1ms. Which one do you have?

 

[k1114]

Sounds like inverse ghosting not ghosting.

 

[Barls]

That doesn't happen on my Asus VE278Q's. What kinda monitor do you have? If its similar to my screens, there is a option in the monitor menu that allows you do adjust "Trace Free" if its set too high/low it really makes things look weird. I use Trace Free of 40 (0-100).

I have a benq RL2455HM. I don't see a Trace Free setting.. I'm noticing the ghosting in games too.. is there something wrong with my monitor or is there a setting i should try to change?

 

[Barls]

Sounds like you have an old 16ms monitor and not a 1ms. Which one do you have?

I have a benq rl2455HM

 

[Barls]

Sounds like inverse ghosting not ghosting.

I notice it in games now too.. I play csgo, and when i attack with my knife it shows an outline of my knife after.

 

[bishopi5]

That is screen tearing, It happens when the refresh rate or fps or the game you're playing does not match the HZ of the monitor you're playing, I assume everything is still in 60hz mode whilst you upgraded to 120+hz monitor? this would cause massive tearing

Its not a 120hz monitor, so i have no idea why this would be happening, its a nice monitor, It seems its built more for console gaming?

 

[Barls]

That is screen tearing, It happens when the refresh rate or fps or the game you're playing does not match the HZ of the monitor you're playing, I assume everything is still in 60hz mode whilst you upgraded to 120+hz monitor? this would cause massive tearing

Its not a 120hz monitor, so i have no idea why this would be happening, its a nice monitor, It seems its built more for console gaming?

Yeah I'm actually upgrading to 120hz or 144hz in a month or two and giving him my 60hz for his bday. Any idea what's causing the screen tearing?

 

[BrandonYoung]

Screen tearing happens when the videobuffer is updated during a screen draw. Screens refresh pixel by pixel from left to right, top to bottom. Tearing occours when the upper portion of the screen shows one fully rendered screen, while the bottom portion displays the next rendered screen. this is most obvious in horizontal movement, and not what I think your problem is. To verify, turn on vsync in the game or force vsync in your graphics driver settings. This will synchronize your FPS to some multiple of your refresh rate so your rendered frames are in sync with the monitors refresh rate, preventing you from seeing the top of one rendered frame, and the bottom of the next rendered frame.

 

[BrandonYoung]

Try adjusting your "AMA" value in the monitor settings menu, try 'off' and 'performance' see if one of those helps.
Changing AMA to "off" has helped other users with your monitor to eliminate ghosting, hope this helps!

Game on.

 

[Barls]

Try adjusting your "AMA" value in the monitor settings menu, try 'off' and 'performance' see if one of those helps.
Changing AMA to "off" has helped other users with your monitor to eliminate ghosting, hope this helps!

Game on.

Nice this did it thank you. What does AMA do anyway? Am I losing out on something by having this off?

 

[k1114]

It's the same thing as asus's trace free or any other companies' overdrive. It's how they speed up response times. Too much causes inverse ghosting, too less and you get ghosting. You're losing out in nothing.

 

[Barls]

It's the same thing as asus's trace free or any other companies' overdrive. It's how they speed up response times. Too much causes inverse ghosting, too less and you get ghosting. You're losing out in nothing.

K cool thanks for the info!

 

[BrandonYoung]

Glad this helped! It does seem like a nice monitor!

 

[bishopi5]

Nice had no idea AMA could do that, always had it on high with my 144hz, glad u got it sorted