Frustrating ghosting experience with Asus VG236he
Well, after reading quite a lot of reviews and user opinions, I decided to get an Asus VG236HE to replace my aging Sony FW900 CRT.
First impressions after unboxing were very good, nice looking monitor with really good colors, at least for a TN monitor.

After setting the monitor to 120 MHz in Windows, I started wondering, why still so few monitors are in 120 MHz, everything is so much smoother and more enjoyable.

Next I started some games in 3D. First game was BBC2 - Africa harbour, where you have a bright scenery with much contrast.
I was pretty dissapointed to see, that the gun was almost doubled, bad dark ghosting there. So I looked closer, and apparently the ghosting was everywhere. I had a Samsung 2233RZ a while ago, this monitor showed ghosting only in the upper 25 % of the screen, but in this case the ghosting in the middle of the screen was the same as in the top, not was I exspected, assuming the ghosting capabilities of LCD's had improved in the meantime.
I tried everything to remedy this issue, 110 MHz, 100 MHz, lowering contrast and gamma, all to no avail.
After thinking about it I would guess this is sort of a timing problem, the monitor can't be that bad.

I really think, NVIDIA should give users some kind of timing parameter control. The way it is now, you can do absolutely nothing about it.

I don't think the problem has to do with anything from my system, since my trusty CRT shows only a bit of white ghosting on black backrounds, so the timing seems perfect here. But this LCD's dark ghosting in the middle of the screen makes games pretty much unplayable for me.

I would have loved to keep this monitor, because everything else is very good, but since I wanted it solely for 3d, it got packed up and sent back today.
Well, after reading quite a lot of reviews and user opinions, I decided to get an Asus VG236HE to replace my aging Sony FW900 CRT.

First impressions after unboxing were very good, nice looking monitor with really good colors, at least for a TN monitor.



After setting the monitor to 120 MHz in Windows, I started wondering, why still so few monitors are in 120 MHz, everything is so much smoother and more enjoyable.



Next I started some games in 3D. First game was BBC2 - Africa harbour, where you have a bright scenery with much contrast.

I was pretty dissapointed to see, that the gun was almost doubled, bad dark ghosting there. So I looked closer, and apparently the ghosting was everywhere. I had a Samsung 2233RZ a while ago, this monitor showed ghosting only in the upper 25 % of the screen, but in this case the ghosting in the middle of the screen was the same as in the top, not was I exspected, assuming the ghosting capabilities of LCD's had improved in the meantime.

I tried everything to remedy this issue, 110 MHz, 100 MHz, lowering contrast and gamma, all to no avail.

After thinking about it I would guess this is sort of a timing problem, the monitor can't be that bad.



I really think, NVIDIA should give users some kind of timing parameter control. The way it is now, you can do absolutely nothing about it.



I don't think the problem has to do with anything from my system, since my trusty CRT shows only a bit of white ghosting on black backrounds, so the timing seems perfect here. But this LCD's dark ghosting in the middle of the screen makes games pretty much unplayable for me.



I would have loved to keep this monitor, because everything else is very good, but since I wanted it solely for 3d, it got packed up and sent back today.

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#1
Posted 12/20/2010 11:39 AM   
very sorry to hear that, my Asus is going to be delivered to me anytime soon. I really dident think ghosting would be this bad. I hope its just a mal function on your monitor and not every one. Have you tried disabling SLi ?
very sorry to hear that, my Asus is going to be delivered to me anytime soon. I really dident think ghosting would be this bad. I hope its just a mal function on your monitor and not every one. Have you tried disabling SLi ?

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#2
Posted 12/20/2010 03:39 PM   
[quote name='danevito' date='20 December 2010 - 07:39 AM' timestamp='1292859585' post='1163853']
very sorry to hear that, my Asus is going to be delivered to me anytime soon. I really dident think ghosting would be this bad. I hope its just a mal function on your monitor and not every one. Have you tried disabling SLi ?
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No, I didn't try disabling SLI, since my CRT works great in 3D/SLI without any problems. Maybe I got a bad part, I dont't know. Some review sites even stated, that this monitor had the least ghosting compared to others, so I think there is hope, that your experience will be better than mine.

Looking forward to your review!
[quote name='danevito' date='20 December 2010 - 07:39 AM' timestamp='1292859585' post='1163853']

very sorry to hear that, my Asus is going to be delivered to me anytime soon. I really dident think ghosting would be this bad. I hope its just a mal function on your monitor and not every one. Have you tried disabling SLi ?





No, I didn't try disabling SLI, since my CRT works great in 3D/SLI without any problems. Maybe I got a bad part, I dont't know. Some review sites even stated, that this monitor had the least ghosting compared to others, so I think there is hope, that your experience will be better than mine.



Looking forward to your review!

GTX 1080ti - Rampage III Extreme - XEON i7 920 @ 4.0 GHz - 24 GB Ram - Windows 7 64 - ASUS PG278QR

#3
Posted 12/20/2010 05:28 PM   
I am having the same problem. I tried testing every configuration 120hz, 110hz and 100hz. I even see ghosting in the Nvidia letters in the Nvidia test application. It seems that the ghosting increases when the depth is high. I ordered the monitor because there were all good reviews but nothing about ghosting.
I am having the same problem. I tried testing every configuration 120hz, 110hz and 100hz. I even see ghosting in the Nvidia letters in the Nvidia test application. It seems that the ghosting increases when the depth is high. I ordered the monitor because there were all good reviews but nothing about ghosting.

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#4
Posted 12/20/2010 07:30 PM   
I also have this monitor and I'm also having this problem I thought it was just the top 25% of the screen, but after solving that, now I see ghosting everywhere. I'm sending it back too. I didn't spend 450€ for this crap.
I also have this monitor and I'm also having this problem I thought it was just the top 25% of the screen, but after solving that, now I see ghosting everywhere. I'm sending it back too. I didn't spend 450€ for this crap.

#5
Posted 12/24/2010 06:11 PM   
Ive had the VG236H for a couple months now running with a i7 920 and a gtx 480. No double images at all in any of the games ive tried in 3D (about 20 games, including all the 3D ready games). Try disabling SLI....Hard to help with a problem i've never experienced.
Ive had the VG236H for a couple months now running with a i7 920 and a gtx 480. No double images at all in any of the games ive tried in 3D (about 20 games, including all the 3D ready games). Try disabling SLI....Hard to help with a problem i've never experienced.

#6
Posted 12/24/2010 08:03 PM   
I would try disabling SLI (or turning one card into dedicated physx only? THink that is possible, I don't use sli) and see if that helps any as I remember seeing other topics about how SLI isn't working right currently.
I would try disabling SLI (or turning one card into dedicated physx only? THink that is possible, I don't use sli) and see if that helps any as I remember seeing other topics about how SLI isn't working right currently.

#7
Posted 12/24/2010 10:43 PM   
Run the setup wizard again, I just had issues with my Acer, when I swapped from surround to one monitor. The screen was literally strobing.
running the setup wizard again cleared the issue up.
Run the setup wizard again, I just had issues with my Acer, when I swapped from surround to one monitor. The screen was literally strobing.

running the setup wizard again cleared the issue up.
#8
Posted 12/25/2010 01:21 AM   
I got mine yesterday and have only tried bfbc2 jet but I did not find any ghosting, will check more tomorrow. I do remember reading on 3d-vision-blog that letting the monitor warm up for a couple of hours will help the ghosting as it tends to not run in full speed with the refresh rate when you just turn it on.
I got mine yesterday and have only tried bfbc2 jet but I did not find any ghosting, will check more tomorrow. I do remember reading on 3d-vision-blog that letting the monitor warm up for a couple of hours will help the ghosting as it tends to not run in full speed with the refresh rate when you just turn it on.

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#9
Posted 12/25/2010 04:32 AM   
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