New video Card Makes Text BluRRy!~!@

SubDude199

SubDude199

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I mentioned this problem in a diffrnet post but its really bothering me so I figured its new post worthy. Kinds jacked my own thread. lol. Anyway I just installed my new 7900GTO. Right when I booted up I noticed how blurry everything was.. Figured it would clean up with drives but it never did. Games look fine but text and my desktop look horrible.. it hurts my eyes to look at it.

It looks like the monitor is trying to display evetything 2 or 3 times in diffrent areas that are very close to eachother. when I look at one letter im typing I can see basicly a shadow to the right of it 2-3 times. Its VERY noticable when looking at green text on a blue baclground (teamspeak).

I am using an older 22" dell M1110 CRT montior.
I needed to use a DVI to VGA adapter
I used the same DVI to VGA adapter with my ATI Radion X1650 and it was crystal clear.
I did not change VGA cables at all either.

I have tried refresh rates from 60-150 but they all look bad. I have taken pictures and had other people look at them and had people connect threw RealVNC and it clear to them.

Any ideas or sugestions?.. I dont like this blurry stuff at all..if there is any more info I can provide let me know.

thanks
Edit: Just found a good word that describes it "ghosting"

Edit#2: I just tried it on an older 15" CRT and its clear as day. So I have isolated ther problem to the VGA cable and or monitor.. most likely the monitor has gone down hill.. maybe I bumped it or somehting?.
 
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Well, when you say your games look fine, it leads me to think otherwise... Try reseating the graphics card on your motherboard.
 
I thought the games looked fine but I was just overtaken by the amazing graphics that I didnt look close enought to see the ghost. but its there.
 
isnt ghosting, when you for example turn around in a game, and you see.. well, the landscape ghost over eachother because the monitor cant change the pixel's fast enough?

it isnt a resolution problem? I know that when you run it on a lower resolution than the LCD's native resolution, it will start looking blurry (thats why i run everything at 1280x1024, because thats the resolution of my monitor)
 
I first noticed text-only ghosting when I got this motherboard new in 2004, using its integrated/shared graphics; I recall seeing it on both a previous CRT monitor as well as my LCD. I switched to a new AGP card yesterday and the text ghosting's gone.
If you have text ghosting now and you didn't before when using the same monitor, resolution, and refresh rate, then it's obvious it's your new card that's at fault.
Tom
 
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Thats what I thought also.. But it looks fine on a diffrent monitor.. so the new video card and the old monitor are not playing well together.
 
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