tv screen flicker?

[xbradx]

i've got my computer hooked up to a tv via an ati radeon ve card (s-video). when looking at the screen in windows it seems to flicker and is pretty hard on the eyes. the text is pretty hard to read and everything just seems harsh to my eyes.

when i play a game though, the screen looks perfect. no flickering and i can see everything a lot more clearly.

what do you guys use to make your tv's look good while looking at the windows desktop or easier to read? any settings or tricks?

[pfriedel]

My Ti4200 TV properties has a setting for "flicker fixer".  I can't check exactly what it sez right now - no TV attached at the moment.  One way everything flickers, the other way, it doesn't.  What the heck is it actually doing - spreading single horizontal lines into 2 lines so's be displayed more often?

  Also, try a lower resolution, it can help.

[xbradx]

i updated my radeon driver and now i've got the flicker fix option which helps some.

text is still a little hard to read though. would upping the DPI help?

[Sasquatch!]

text is still a little hard to read though. would upping the DPI help?

It would probably make it worse.  Try and see though.

I usually set my font settings to be bigger when hooked through a TV too, if that helps.

[lightspeed]

This is simply a by-product of using a TV - they simply weren't designed to handle computer resolutions and text.

Play w/ your flicker control, lower the TV's contrast, swicth to larger fonts and colors....about the only thing you can do.

[Brad Lee]

Ive got a radeon7500aiw

Windows XP I run at 800x600, Large fonts
Pretty readable, although if you make the font size too much bigger it mucks around with window element positions and stuff

Also if it's text you're trying to get more legible, try changing the color scheme.. Black on white, white on black, yellow on dark blue, black on yellow, until you find whats comfortable on your eyes

[Lilwolf]

Get a good frontend that allows you to change the fonts internally.  

And stop trying to use it as a monitor.  It really will never be a good solution for anything windows.  You can almost manage... but not really.