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    Does this problem has a specific name?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by kamran46, Mar 1, 2006.

  1. kamran46

    kamran46 Notebook Geek

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    Today, I was looking at my friend's 17" LG LCD (desktop) and I saw that letters were shown bad. Indeed, letters seemed thick and bold and in the case of letters like e, something like a shadow was around the circular part of this letter. I increased the resolution but nothing changed with this problem.

    Does this problem has a specific name?

    How about acer LCDs? 4402 or 5003? same thing on them too?

    thanks
     
    kamran46, Mar 1, 2006
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  2. Brian

    Brian Working at 486 Speed NBR Reviewer

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    Perhaps the clear type settings are bad. I'd start by turning that off to see if it makes a difference for you. And of course running at anything below native resolution will cause distortion as well.
     
    Brian, Mar 1, 2006
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  3. kamran46

    kamran46 Notebook Geek

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    Brian, u mean that has happened because that 17" LCD has not been at its native resolution? So the only way would be to use even higher resolution? I checked it at 800*600 and 1024*768 but at both letters were not as i am now seeing on my 17" CRT (non LCD) display now.

    It is important to me since I wanna know that if there r notebooks that may have same problem on screen and i want to avoid them, since i am going to buy one soon.
     
    kamran46, Mar 1, 2006
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  4. irishrover

    irishrover Notebook Consultant

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    You might consider updating the video drives. I have seen this problem in the past and updating the drives worked for me.

    Hope this helps
     
    irishrover, Mar 1, 2006
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