Display Fluidity

xsadrulesx · October 29, 2014

The current monitor i own is an Acer h236hlbid. It's a 60hz 1080p panel with a 5ms response time (at least that's what they advertise). So pretty standard stuff, it should provide for a decent gaming experience. However whenever i play any games it isn't fluid at all. There are moments where it's like choppy kind of like a microstutter effect. This is true for most if not all of games. Even when i'm getting high fps. My rig has an i5 3570, GTX 970, and 8gb of ram and i get really high fps and it still produces this effect. V-sync doesn't help much either. The only thing that helps a bit is when i overclock the monitor (it only lets me get up to 66hz) which i know shouldn't make much of a difference but it does in terms of just general fluidity and alleviating a bit of that microstutter effect. However it's not enough because when i hook up my gpu to just my regular old hdtv (nothing special) the gameplay is much much more fluid.

Anybody have any ideas why? It's not a driver issue or anything either, i've tried multiple gpus and drivers both nvidia and amd.

I'm considering getting a 144hz panel (ASUS VG248QE) just because of this. I don't mind 60hz panels i just want a fluid gaming experience.

KingDaddyDaniel · October 29, 2014

This is usually produced by a defective panel. In my case it was a Sony Playstation 3D TV. I bought two. One was fine, while the other had 'macro' stutters. Returned them both and bought something else

GoodBytes · October 29, 2014

Interesting... to me it sounds like the controller used in the monitor can't deliver 1080p 60Hz, and is dropping frames.

Probably Acer went and said "It's for office usage, so who cares, let's make the monitor as cheap as possible".

It could be a faulty monitor, where the controller is faulty, we can't deny that as well.

Animation is supposed to be perfectly smooth at 60Hz. I mean you can plug your old (or another) monitor and see that you don't have the problem, if you have none, check out your smartphone or tablet, all 60Hz, all smooth.

Back in 2009-2011 or even 2012, the general rule was that if you get IPS panel you would get a decent monitor, make that very good back in 2009, as due to the cost of IPS panels, the monitors were only considered for the professional market, and so there was no cheaping out. Today, this is no longer true. There exists many shitty IPS monitors. Not only IPS panel cost much less to produce these days, but also they are made cheaply. For example, back in 2009, you only had true 8-bit IPS panels, delivering jaw dropping visuals. Today, they can be made 6-bit color flavor, like TN panels. can be not as sharp and crisp, and have horrible color calibrations, and worst, image retention problem. So, you have to be careful.

My monitor from 2009, cost 750$ and that is a 24inch monitor 1920x1200. Sure they could make the stand in cheap plastic like now, and not this solid steal metal construct, while still retaining full motion adjustability thanks to the metal mechanical system embed inside the stand, they could remove the color processor, multiple inputs, component, composite input conversion, picture-in-picture, and all that jazz.. but then the monitor would probably be 650-700$. So, might as well have all that.