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Does your monitor "pass" this motion blur test

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I am in the market for a monitor to replace a very old 18.5 inch 16:9 1366 x 768 pixel screen, however since I really don't care for larger monitors (the 18.5 is too small obviously though), I am looking at a 24 inch screen since that seems to be the decent entry level for where "proper" gaming monitors begin.

Since the one thing that has annoyed me to this point is LCD motion blur (and any artifacts that may arise from that or from mitigating firmware algorithms found within monitors), I found this motion blur test interesting (link at bottom).

Since as a simmer, however, consistently high frame rates are simply not possible, I am more interested in how monitors might perform when running the test below at 60 frames per second at a monitor refresh rate of 60 hz.

For the record, the three LCD monitors I have in the house failed this test dismally in that I was completely unable to read any of the words in this "game scrolling test". In either direction and even at the minimum speed of 960 pixels per second (which in turn in much slower than the panning speed I might use in a first person shooter but perhaps similar to my panning speed in FSX). Although I do not have a CRT monitor to test I assume if such a monitor were used the text would be perfectly readable though.

So I am wondering if anyone has a 1920 x 1080 monitor which runs at 60 hz and at 60 fps, is the text in the demo below readable? My hope is that perhaps a typical "1 ms" monitor might make the text readable versus a "5 ms" monitor (not that from my research those numbers necessarily mean much more than perhaps the 1 ms one will possibly have less motion blur than the 5 ms one all other things being reasonably comparable.

If I find that "1 ms" monitors people decide to test here do not make the text readable at 60 fps / 60 hz then I am probably wasting my money on a "fast" monitor given I simply do not see frame rates higher than 60 to begin with. Certainly at 144 hz / 144 fps I would expect the text to be readable but that sort of setup is not really relevant to me even though it would be very relevant to a hardcore "gamer".

 

https://www.testufo.com/framerates-versus#photo=dota2-bg.jpg&pps=1920&framepacingerror=0&direction=rtl&framerate=60&compare=2&showfps=1

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My work monitor does not pass the test. I'll try tonight with my sim one.


Best regards,
Luis Hernández 20px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png20px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png

Main rig: self built, AMD Ryzen 5 5600X with PBO enabled (but default settings, CO -15 mV, and SMT ON), 2x16 GB DDR4-3200 RAM, Nvidia RTX3060 Ti 8GB, 256 GB M.2 SSD (OS+apps) + 2x1 TB SATA III SSD (sims) + 1 TB 7200 rpm HDD (storage), Viewsonic VX2458-MHD 1920x1080@120 Hz, Windows 10 Pro. Runing FSX-SE, MSFS and P3D v5.4 (with v4.5 default airports).

Mobile rig: ASUS Zenbook UM425QA (AMD Ryzen 7 5800H APU @3.2 GHz and boost disabled, 1 TB M.2 SSD, 16 GB RAM, Windows 11 Pro). Running FS9 there... sometimes on just battery! FSX-SE also installed, just in case. 

VKB Gladiator NXT Premium Left + GNX THQ as primary controllers. Xbox Series X|S wireless controller as standby/travel.

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