Ghosting Issues

[Nazyaweh]

I have a BenQ RL2455HM and I have been noticing some ghosting with my mouse but only over certain backgrounds. I have also noticed ghosting in certain parts of games on my PC. I used this monitor for my PS3 before I built my PC and didn't see any ghosting. Is there any kind of settings I could change or anything that might help this issue or do I just have a crappy monitor? I do plan on getting a 1440p monitor at the beginning of the year so if anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear them.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Are you sure its ghosting and not lag? This is a 1ms response time monitor and the chances of you seeing ghosting is slim at the high rate of speed.

 

[Nazyaweh]

Are you sure its ghosting and not lag? This is a 1ms response time monitor and the chances of you seeing ghosting is slim at the high rate of speed.

What is the difference? I see a faint outline of my mouse cursor just slightly behind it when I move it over certain backgrounds and the same thing with some objects in games like trees, plants, and birds. I really don't know what it is, this monitor is supposed to have low lag as well. I also never noticed this when I had it hooked up to my PS3.

 

[NeverBackDown]

PS3 only runs at 30fps so the monitor barely has to try to keep up. Lag is when the framerate is slow when playing games and has a stutter effect. Ghosting is when you see more than one image of the same thing, mices usually always show ghosting images though. You sure the trees/plants aren't swaying?

 

[Nazyaweh]

No, It is a white outline trailing behind the image as I am moving the cursor over only certain backgrounds or when moving the camera in a game. I'll try to get a screenshot, well the screenshots don't show it but it is a white "smear" around the object in the shape of the object. I don't know how to explain it properly, could it be caused because the frame rate is higher than the monitor's refresh rate? I have V-sync on so it shouldn't be but in any case it is very annoying. I don't want to buy another monitor and have the same issue so I hope I can figure it out.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Again the mouse cursor almost always shows another cursor that appears to be smeared. Pixels in the monitor can't change quick enough so it shows more than one image. Buying a new monitor won't help much regarding the cursor.

V-sync should not be enabled anyway, causes input lag. Very rarely has my tv(slower than a monitor) tear an image when the framerate is above its 60hz refresh rate. It only happens If above 82ish fps consistently.

 

[Nazyaweh]

I found the cause of the problem. This monitor has BenQ's Advanced Motion Accelerator(AMA) to shorten the grey to grey response time but it causes some horrible after-glow. It is supposed to reduce motion-blur but even with it off I didn't notice any. When I turned it off the "smearing" or ghosting I saw went away completely, with my mouse and in-game. I just though I would let you know what the issue was in case anyone else has this problem, also thanks for all your help.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Anytime, now game on!