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  1. Xaniith

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    Yeah, but it might be like a loose connection between the monitor or the graphics card. If there's no difference in result from those cables, It could be a hardware issue, but then if it worked fine with your old PC, it would work fine now.

    Hmm. hard to tell.
     
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    Have you tried turning it off and on again?
     
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    I keep trying different things. I had my TV and monitor displaying the same thing. Now the HDTV was perfect. There was no glitching at all. However, my monitor got worse after doing this but only until I closed the game out. The HDTV was connected with an HDMI and the monitor a VGA. Going to try the HDMI in the monitor and see if that does anything. I'm an idiot.

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    Yeah its the monitor. Mines starting to die too.
     
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    Still works perfectly fine on old PC. Just tested it.

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    Okay, ditching the VGA cable worked. No more glitching even when I try to provoke it, but now everything lags just a very little bit from time to time in games.:sigh: I'm going to try the DVI cable and see what happens.

    EDIT: Okay yeah. DVI works the best. Glitching is completely gone and I only get very little lag on Ultra settings. I'm mostly playing Skyrim with the HD texture packs. Time to try Borderlands 2.
     
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    Lag might be the card. I use an adapter with mine and see no lag at all.
    Of course its a GTX 760 and skyrim running with default maximum graphics.
     
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    The FPS only goes down from 60 to 50 in certain areas. Unfortunately, a sudden change in frame rate really bothers me. Throws me off my grove you know? I just put it on High settings and it's gone. I don't need ultra. :3

    Gameplay >>>>>>>> Graphics

    Not that much different anyway.
     
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    Mines not even all the way ultra.

    Anyway GTAIV with a trainer + godmode + infinite ammo is good stress releif.
     
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    I kinda question if the HDMI cable was to blame for the frame drops before or if it was just coincidence. DVI and HDMI both should push out the same in terms of video and are mostly identical. However I would always avoid VGA like the plague when you can. It's an analog signal instead of digital. The video card will be pushing out a digital signal which gets converted down to analog then up converted back to digital by the monitor again which usually always creates noticeable quality degradation. I've had some VGA cables give me light flickering (like the refresh rate is low) or washed out color, similar maybe to what you saw. I've always used DVI for computers since HDMI's only benefit is it carries sound in the signal as well. But anyway I'm glad to hear that it is working alright now. :)

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    Sometimes at day too. :v
     
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    Dayum. More pony merch than I own, monster PC, HD TV for a monitor AND a custom plushie? You must make some serious bank.
     
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    whered you get ther custom plusheh
     
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    Not really. I bought the monitor for $120 last March and the HDTV was given to me by my brother when he got a new one. It has pixel locking or whatever it's called. If I leave an image on the screen for 5 minutes you can see an outline of it for a while before it fades away. The custom plushie was $65 and the gaming PC did rape my savings hard. I have to recover from that one. All the furniture was free as well as more than half the pony vinyl figures.:blink:

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    She doesn't do minis anymore though. She had a very difficult time with mine and stopped after that.

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    Heh, the intricacies of computer hardware. Tis a beautiful thing. :D Think of it like taking a high quality music file, like a WAV turn it to a crappy MP3, then pointlessly back to a WAV. Gonna be crap. xD
     
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    This is pretty mild really. The conversion back isn't entirely pointless since the encoded for is more compact than the original (WAVs areretty huge). If you want real insanity, you're going to have to step up to systems development.

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    In most day-to-day cases for average people it's usually pointless.
     

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