BF2S Forums Dell 24" 2405FPW and Samsung 214T LCD's

I would get the 214T, the HUD's look like shit on widescreen (case in point: F-35, J-10, and sniper rifles)

Edit: However I see they are both LCD's, check the reaction time.

Last edited by k30dxedle (2006-05-11 15:05:22)

Over at hardocp one of the members did an input lag comparison, the dell was faster. Id say you go with the dell.

I have the dell 24" widescreen --> my desktop

I run BF2 on 1600x1200 all graphics max at 45 fps without any ghosting
1600x1200 and 1920x1200 hi res sceenshots available upon request

It is a great screen (I also use it for Photoshopping and Video editing)
and it has a few things other 24" screens don't have:
- VGA DVI, RGB and Component connections !
- integrated usb hub
- integrated card reader 
- rotation up/down/left right/ 90 degrees
- picture in picture

And if you rather buy a Samsung, guess what:
The screen of the dell 24" is manufactured by Samsung.

Last edited by Lt.Goldman (2006-05-16 16:15:42)

hes right, samsung does make it .

I would get the 24'' monitor if you have a system to be able to run at the resolution.  I thought that there were fixes for running in widescreen at www.widescreengaming.com or something of that sort where you simply make a couple changes to the config file and it fixes it for you, including the HUD etc.

Also, from what I understand, LCDs are made to run at their native resolution in the 24'' case 1920x1200 (I believe) not the 1600x1200.  When running at a different resolution it can cause scaling problems and also burn out the monitor faster because it has to work overtime to convert the pixels to fit the screen instead of displaying the way it was meant to.

acdc wrote:

Scratch the 214T, get the 204B.

Samsung 204b? I have too look at that model.

Read a few reviews on that one people say they notice ghosting in bf2 on this model?

Last edited by splixx (2006-05-12 07:06:27)

Yes I think you need to also edit one of the con files also to make this work correctly.

BlackOps_Avenger wrote:

I have the 24 DELL and it rocks. However you must have a system that can run the game @1200x1600. If that is the case, the dell kicks hte only thing that i would get instead of the 24 is the 30. Its a little pricey right now though.

Currently I am running a AMD 4600X2 2 gig Corsair and 7800GTX 256 so I do not think that will be a issue. Soon I will have a 7900GTX Superclock 512 so I do not think this will be a issue.

Are you stretching it with the above said commands and did you edit any con files?

If you heard people saying there is ghosting in BF2 with the 204B, the 214T would be even worse....  204B has the better response time.

splixx wrote:

Can you by chance give a few more images of Karkand with close up tank shots and a few other nice snaps?
I would so much appreciate it... What video card are you running? System specs? Thanks in advance!

Settings
If I want to run BF2 on 1920x1200 I add to the shortcut  +menu 1 +widescreen 1 +szx 1920 +szy 1200

Additional BF2 pictures on Dell 2407WFP 24-inch
- 1600x1200 high settings - Karkand Overview
- 1600x1200 high settings - Karkand Soldier+Tank
- 1600x1200 high settings - Karkand Tank + HUD
- 1600x1200 high settings - US Carrier

- 1920x1200 high settings - Sniper + HUD
- 1920x1200 high settings - Sniperscope view + HUD

My  complete system specs:
CPU        AMD Athlon64 X2 4800+ (2.4 GHz) Dual Core
MB          Asus A8N-SLI Premium nVidia nForce4 SLI
VIDEO     Club 3D GeForce 7800 GTX PCIe 256MB
MEM        OCZ 400 Mhz PC-3200 EL Dual Channel Platinum 2GB
1st HD     Western Digital Caviar 36Gb 10.000 rpm
2nd HD    4 x Maxtor MaxLine Plus II 250Gb 7.200 rpm  in RAID-0 (1 terrabyte)
DVD        Plextor PX-716SA SATA/150 DVD ± RW / CD-RW
SOUND    Creative Soundblaster X-FI
              Speedlink Medusa 5.1 Surround Headset

LCD        Dell Ultrasharp 2407WFP 24-inch
CASE      Lian Li PC-6070B Plus Black Full-Tower
              Antec Phantom 500W Fanless
INPUT      Logitech diNovo Cordless Desktop
               Logitech MX1000 Laser Cordless Mouse
               Logitech Freedom 2.4 Cordless joystick

Edit: ... did I forget something ?

Last edited by Lt.Goldman (2006-05-13 12:35:48)

Posted this elsewhere, but it fits here too...quicky camera shot of my monitor, Karkand, 1920x1080. 

http://www.bavarianfalcon.com/images/rig/bf2003big.jpg  (2.6mb file for you dialup users that might be out there)

Notice the FPS, which holds steady.  Do keep in mind that you're looking at a camera shot, with flash, it looks much better in person or with a screen capture. 

Also notice that the only real "artifact" of running widescreen is that the mini-map gets more oval shaped, as seen in Goldman's most excellent screen caps and my cam shot...but nothing else in the game suffers from this, the proportions are all normal.  The other downside is that by forcing widescreen resolutions, you don't really widen the field of view, and you loose some of the top and bottom screen compared to 4:3 aspect ratios.  Nothing that affects gameplay at ALL.

Here's a good thread on the subject:  http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/fo … hlight=bf2

As for ghosting, neither my "old" 2005FPW or my new Westinghouse 37" suffer from the problem that I can notice.

System specs are:

Athlon X2 4400+, Crossfire Radeon X1900XT, Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe, 2mb RAM, Diamond Xtreme DDL 7.1 sound card, Westinghouse Digital LVM37-W1 1080p LCD monitor.

Last edited by Croak (2006-05-17 21:51:40)