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<blockquote data-quote="pezpunk" data-source="post: 54323" data-attributes="member: 951"><p>the lag comes in when you have a lot of post-processing turned on. for watching television or dvds or whatever, there is also a delay, but the television syncs up the sound so you never notice. during gaming, as you are discovering, it is noticeable BIG TIME. </p><p></p><p>the solution is to turn off every graphical doodad in the menus. put the framerate at 60. turn off noise reduction or smoothing or any other feature that is mentioned on the box. that will greatly reduce the lag you're experiencing. (and make the image look better to boot. television feature marketing is total BS right now, it's a real shame)</p><p></p><p>some TVs offer a "gaming mode" that automatically tries to reduce lag to a minimum.</p><p></p><p>My story: I used to play Pinball Hall of Fame (Wii) on a Samsung DLP, and it was good. Then I bought a new flatscreen TV with a high framerate and all the latest features, and the game became completely unplayable with humongous flipper lag, and the ball would disappear whenever it was moving faster than a crawl. </p><p></p><p>By sheer luck, the tv i bought (a Sharp) did happen to have a Gaming mode (i think Samsungs do too now). I turned it on (and i turned off all the other features) and I was astounded. My all-time high scores doubled overnight, because not only was the lag I noticed gone, but the lag that I experienced that I didn't even consciously notice on my old Samsung was also gone.</p><p></p><p>again: both the ghosting and lag you are experiencing are due to the "features" of the tv like 120hz, motion clarity, quadpixel, smartcolor, clearmotion, etc. -- seriously turn ALL that stuff off, and enable "gaming mode" if your tv has it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pezpunk, post: 54323, member: 951"] the lag comes in when you have a lot of post-processing turned on. for watching television or dvds or whatever, there is also a delay, but the television syncs up the sound so you never notice. during gaming, as you are discovering, it is noticeable BIG TIME. the solution is to turn off every graphical doodad in the menus. put the framerate at 60. turn off noise reduction or smoothing or any other feature that is mentioned on the box. that will greatly reduce the lag you're experiencing. (and make the image look better to boot. television feature marketing is total BS right now, it's a real shame) some TVs offer a "gaming mode" that automatically tries to reduce lag to a minimum. My story: I used to play Pinball Hall of Fame (Wii) on a Samsung DLP, and it was good. Then I bought a new flatscreen TV with a high framerate and all the latest features, and the game became completely unplayable with humongous flipper lag, and the ball would disappear whenever it was moving faster than a crawl. By sheer luck, the tv i bought (a Sharp) did happen to have a Gaming mode (i think Samsungs do too now). I turned it on (and i turned off all the other features) and I was astounded. My all-time high scores doubled overnight, because not only was the lag I noticed gone, but the lag that I experienced that I didn't even consciously notice on my old Samsung was also gone. again: both the ghosting and lag you are experiencing are due to the "features" of the tv like 120hz, motion clarity, quadpixel, smartcolor, clearmotion, etc. -- seriously turn ALL that stuff off, and enable "gaming mode" if your tv has it. [/QUOTE]
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