I've been playing this game for years and years since 1.0. Never had any problems at all.
That was, until I got an LCD monitor last year.
For some reason, my recoil became very very bad once I switched from my CRT. It got to the point where I had to quit because even my USP bullets would be ridiculously off target after the 2nd bullet. I couldn't do 2-3 bullet M4 bursts and I most certainly couldn't do any AK bursts. I had to resort to tap tap play, which as you can imagine, is not ideal.
I was wondering if anyone switched from a CRT to an LCD and encountered this problem? Watching professional tournaments, I see that they have no trouble with bursts and pistols and I have no idea why.
This is most definitely not a skill difference issue (although I am nowhere near pro level obviously ) Before my monitor switch, I could use burst perfectly fine and my pistols were actually on target.
Anyone with any ideas? I'd love to start playing properly again
Possibly ghosting is your problem. LCDs create visual artifacts when a pixel's color changes rapidly between frames. This is because the liquid crystal's shape, which determines what color that pixel is, is controlled by an electric signal. If you change the color drastically (from pure red to pure blue, for example), the crystal will actually change shape away from red and towards blue so fast that it will overshoot blue, then bounce back to blue. This causes "ghosts" of the previous image remaining on the LCD (just the outline, in a different color).
Many good LCDs these days have methods for dealing with ghosting, but most of them aren't perfect (perhaps all of them). If you're seeing the ghosting, even if you don't consciously recognize it, you may be reacting to and shooting at targets with information from several frames ago.
(It's not the recoil that changed. It's your aim.)
hmm.. are you running the same resolution and/or connection (VGA/DVI) as before? try using your monitors auto-adjust setting, perhaps your screen dimensions are messed up after starting CS, because i seriously doubt a monitor change would do anything to change the recoil.
Do you have a camera or can borrow one? Higher shutter speed would be better.
Connect both the LCD and CRT at the same time and clone the images so both are displaying the same thing. Then run something like this counter, and take several pictures with your camera of the LCD and CRT.
If the LCD shows a time later than what's on the CRT, then you've got input (display) lag. Different LCDs behave wildly differently at this, while all CRTs are the same. If the difference is significant, that would explain accuracy issues in any FPS--if what your monitor is displaying is behind the actual state of the game, then of course there is a problem.
edit: ghosting can make the problem slightly worse, but it's the display processing time for LCDs that is the real difference. i.e. for all LCDs, there is a measurable time between when it gets an image and when it displays the image, that if significant will impact performance
I had the same issue. The reason may be the refresh rate on your lcd. I went from playing on a 120hz crt monitor to a 60hz lcd monitor and the difference is NOTICEABLE. My recoil on the lcd monitor was terrible. The only solution i came up with was switch to a 75hz monitor, but even that felt slightly gimped. I also tried playing on a 120hz lcd screen and it felt just like the crt monitor, but those monitors are expensive.
On September 12 2010 05:18 Jenbu wrote: I had the same issue. The reason may be the refresh rate on your lcd. I went from playing on a 120hz crt monitor to a 60hz lcd monitor and the difference is NOTICEABLE. My recoil on the lcd monitor was terrible. The only solution i came up with was switch to a 75hz monitor, but even that felt slightly gimped. I also tried playing on a 120hz lcd screen and it felt just like the crt monitor, but those monitors are expensive.
120 Hz displays are not necessarily better for this. In fact, depending on the implementation, they may be worse. A display with low response time may also have bad latency.
This is a visual demonstration of a typical LCD vs. CRT in real time:
On September 12 2010 05:18 Jenbu wrote: I had the same issue. The reason may be the refresh rate on your lcd. I went from playing on a 120hz crt monitor to a 60hz lcd monitor and the difference is NOTICEABLE. My recoil on the lcd monitor was terrible. The only solution i came up with was switch to a 75hz monitor, but even that felt slightly gimped. I also tried playing on a 120hz lcd screen and it felt just like the crt monitor, but those monitors are expensive.
This is almost certainly the issue. I've experienced similar issues with several LCDs while playing 1.6 due to the lower refresh rate. In fact, I kept my current CRT monitor only for the purpose of playing CS at a high refresh rate and without widescreen. As Jenbu noted, high refresh rate LCDs are very $$$.
I play CS 1.6 on a 60 hz LCD LG Flatron 1680x1050 with GTG response time of 2ms connected to my laptop via DVI->hdmi cable. It works great and I do well at the game.
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) Before my monitor switch, I could use burst perfectly fine and my pistols were actually on target.
