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Before buying a Wells-Gardner monitor, read about their problems
pmowry:
hehe, yeah. I was able to set the res. down to 320x240, with no problem, but I could not see my menus or get to the icon to start the screentest app ;D It looked nice and clean, but I did not bother with pictures without the screentest up. I should have taken a few when playing packman.
ssndk:
--- Quote from: pmowry on April 21, 2009, 10:18:28 am ---hehe, yeah. I was able to set the res. down to 320x240, with no problem, but I could not see my menus or get to the icon to start the screentest app ;D It looked nice and clean, but I did not bother with pictures without the screentest up. I should have taken a few when playing packman.
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Got mine! .. turns out I got screwed by xgaming.. what I received was a D9400 WGM2794-U0FS05S .. not a D9800 as described.. since I live in Denmark it would be uneconomical to ship it back.. oh well, the chassis should be exactly the same.. but the tube might be different.
Generally I think it looks good (I'll post pictures as soon as I get it home to my cab), geometry is nice.. I find the tube to be a bit odd.. maybe it's normal for these kind of monitors, but its like the dpi is lower at the edges of the screen.. you can clearly see it when the monitor is off... Is it the same on your monitor? I can see on your picture with the readability test that the center text is very clear, but the edges is a bit harder to read.. is the picture out of focus, or is that what you see? .. I actually see that on mine.. .. it causes things to be more blurry at the edges than in the center. I've only tried it at 800x600.. I suspect its not a big problem at lower resolutions..
EDIT: After talking with Craig at xgaming it seems I did get the correct D9800 .. It is basically a D9400 with a new tube... and the D9400 they have on Wells Gardner now uses the new tube.. seems kinda strange to me to dump the new name and keep the old.. but it does make sense if the D9800 on wells gardners home page (WGZ2798-U0FS10S) is a different monitor.. it says RCD, while the "old" D9800 (WGZ2798-U0FS08S) is an RCA .. and so is the D9400 ..
pmowry:
It does get blurred towards the corners. But I have not tried to adjust anything yet. My original picture was 4274x2848, I can email you a few if you like. I hesitate to post 4 to 5 Mb pictures to the forum. In that version you can see it blur near the corners and a convergence problem in the top right corner. But other than the tests screens when I'm looking for it. I have not noticed anything otherwise. So I'm actually looking for a faq or monitor guide that would say if you see problem x, adjust setting y. I actually like they way it looks now, and dont want to make it worse not knowing what I'm doing. but knowing there is a few minor things will drive me crazy in the long run.
BTW, I purchased mine from xgaming too. They had a better price when including shipping then WG did when shipping to louisiana.
ssndk:
--- Quote from: pmowry on April 23, 2009, 12:25:41 pm ---It does get blurred towards the corners. But I have not tried to adjust anything yet. My original picture was 4274x2848, I can email you a few if you like. I hesitate to post 4 to 5 Mb pictures to the forum. In that version you can see it blur near the corners and a convergence problem in the top right corner. But other than the tests screens when I'm looking for it. I have not noticed anything otherwise. So I'm actually looking for a faq or monitor guide that would say if you see problem x, adjust setting y. I actually like they way it looks now, and dont want to make it worse not knowing what I'm doing. but knowing there is a few minor things will drive me crazy in the long run.
BTW, I purchased mine from xgaming too. They had a better price when including shipping then WG did when shipping to louisiana.
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Mine had good convergence too.. only a very slight problem in the to right corner too.. not noticable unless you use the test screens and look for it (I'm pretty sure no monitor is perfect).. .. when the monitor is turned off, go in close and see the brighter vertical lines on the screen... doesn't it have larger spacing between the lines at the left and right ends than in the middle? .. I'm pretty sure that's what gives the blur near the corners.. there would be no way to fix that in the settings.. since its how the tube is made. I'm a perfectionist too.. I notice it when I'm in windows.. like text in the corners are more blurry than in the center, but when I punch up a game I don't really notice it.. it does bother me a little though. Again I've only tested it at 800x600.
When I think about it, it could be due to the screen being flat... and not curved..
Ummon:
Look up CRTs and you'll see that the dot pitch varies from center to outside.