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Severe ghosting...

Started by Toolmaker Sep 11, 2005 at 5:41 PM 4 replies 950+ views
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Toolmaker
Toolmaker
I'm playing Maplestory quite often, usually 1 or 2 hours in a row. However, always after playing, a part of the ingame UI is still shown, a la ghosting. However, the part of the ingame chatbar is still visisble, even if I didn't play 3 days(In fact, it still shows when my TFT has been off 3 days aswell). Is this normal? And, what is the best remedy to at least get it to disappear faster? Toolmaker
 
smart_idiot
smart_idiot
I thought problems like this were a thing of the past. Guess I was wrong.

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From here
What is burn-in?

The phosphors used in CRTs and plasma displays becomes less bright with usage. The phenomenon is a lot like “tire wear”. If you drive fast, the wear-per-mile increases, but there is some wear at any speed. The speed of a car corresponds to white in a TV image.

CRT burn-in used to be rare, but the demand for brighter images has made manufacturers less conservative. Now CRTs that have been showing a Windows desktop for a couple years will often show a lightly burned-in task bar when the screen is painted all white. The CRTs in big-screen TVs are pushed even harder, especially in the largest sets.

All CRT and plasma sets dim with usage. Making the screen age evenly is the user’s responsibility. The user must ensure that a fixed, unmoving shape is not displayed for many hours, or that shape will slowly become burned into the screen.

LCD, LCoS, and DLP sets do not suffer burn-in. (Some LCD and LCoS sets exhibit “image retention”, but it goes away in an hour or so.)


Not entirely sure that is relevent but whatever.

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TFT LCD VGA or video monitors do not suffer from screen burn-in.


How interesting. . .
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Toolmaker
Toolmaker
This thing is 2 months old, it's an iiyama 17" TFT, it cost me 300 euros...

Toolmaker
 
Raduprv
Raduprv
I've recently notice the same problem on my PDA, where the black line from the 'task bar' is visible (as a brighter than the rest line) when playing a movie.
But it dissapears after a while, usually a few hours.
Try to let the monitor on, but use a blank screen.
Toolmaker
Toolmaker
Ok, I tried letting my monitor on for longer periods. Right now, I just played and the quick icon bar from in game is visible.

However, the while lines that are around the chatbox are much more visible, even 3 days after playing.

I know by now this is faulty behaviour, and I would like to get rid of it. Not playing the game for an entire week and seeing what happens isn't really a solution, since I'd be bored to death.

So, what are my options? Writing an application(Or screensaver) which slowly changes the gradient of my colors from white (255, 255, 255) to black (0, 0 ,0) and back up? I could even do it in DirectX to ensure the screensaver won't pop up.

Are there any other ideas?

Toolmaker
 

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