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Do you guys always playon GAME mode on your tv?

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Haines

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Ive always played on a standard mode, with the picture calibrated using the disney WOW disc.

Shouod i be instead.....playing on game mode, and calibrate the game mode settings with the disc as well? The colors are far too bright etc on default settings and i cant stand it. if i calibrate using the disc, that is ok for game graphics as well too right?

I assume i should get less response time and stuff from game mode? Is that the benefit?
 
On many TVs, mine included, it is impossible to play video games on anything but.

There is an unmanageable amount of input lag on standard mode on my Samsung 7500. Like, more than half a second, I think.

Edit: Lol, just checked, without Game Mode my input lag is 119.8ms. Literally unplayable.

It's 21 in Game Mode. 37 in PC Mode, which I don't actually know how to access.
 
As far as I know the game mode makes better response time so it kinda makes difference when you play things like fighting game.
 
Game mode means different things on different TV's it would seem in some cases. I use it on my LG because it gets rid of all the post processing (even though the post processing makes the picture look CONSIDERABLY better across the board especially with the colors). Getting rid of post processing increases response time.
 
Dafuq? Is there any other way?!
How do you guys deal with the massive input latency added lol
 
I always flip to game mode on my XBR 929, because the input lag in other modes, with any processing turned on at all, is intolerable. I never use game mode on my 850c, because I have yet to discern any lag at all, with all processing turned on, even in 3D. I don't know what magic Sony used in their current sets, but I'm impressed.
 
Nah, I prefer default settings with low sharpness and no overscan.

If I wanted color accuracy and reduced response time, I'd use my monitor.
 
I got the Sony BRAVIA KDL-42W655. Best Tv for gaming imho. Almost no lag and i do not even have to use the game mode. Crisp picture quality all around. Im highly satisfied with that one.
 
Haines said:
Ive always played on a standard mode, with the picture calibrated using the disney WOW disc.

Shouod i be instead.....playing on game mode, and calibrate the game mode settings with the disc as well? The colors are far too bright etc on default settings and i cant stand it. if i calibrate using the disc, that is ok for game graphics as well too right?

I assume i should get less response time and stuff from game mode? Is that the benefit?
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One sure way to determine if you should switch is to pull up a pinball game. Input latency makes pinball games unplayable.
 
bomblord1 said:
Game mode means different things on different TV's it would seem in some cases. I use it on my LG because it gets rid of all the post processing (even though the post processing makes the picture look CONSIDERABLY better across the board especially with the colors). Getting rid of post processing increases response time.
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Didn't know this. Game mode is so ugly though.
 
Yeah, I have to. Have the HU9000 and input lag is great in game mode, but so so without it. It's the one thing I miss from my plasma which I should have kept tbh. Damn me and my love of a good deal.
 
I've been using an old Samsung LE32B450 TV since 2009 or so and never changed it from the standard settings, so I guess not?

Have never noticed any difference from the CRT I had before it so it's all good though.
 
A lot of TVs have the full settings available in Game Mode. So yeah, you can calibrate both your Cinema Mode and your Game Mode.

But yeah, Game Mode is a lower input lag mode which disables most of the TV's image processing to improve the lag. I always play games in Game Mode.
 
I have all that stuff turned off.
I tried it with motion plus on because of a thread I saw on here.
I never noticed any extra input lag but there was some weird artifacting so I turned it off again.
 
I don't play on TV really, but wouldn't it make a huge difference when you're playing rhythm games? I feel like lower response time would be extremely helpful if I had a PS3 and was playing Project Diva F 2nd.
 
I calibrated my tv to look good. Unless I'm playing street fighter or side scrollers I don't mind input lag that much. How do you guys test your tv input lag?
 
Wowfunhappy said:
Turns off ALL post-processing as opposed to just some of it, and decreases the input lag well below what normal "Game Mode" does.

It is also, as far as I can tell, the only way to disable overscan on my family's samsung TV.
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PC mode on my new(we) Samsung 7500 has higher input lag versus Game Mode. Game Mode is 21.1mms, PC mode is 37mms.
 
jesu said:
I have all that stuff turned off.
I tried it with motion plus on because of a thread I saw on here.
I never noticed any extra input lag but there was some weird artifacting so I turned it off again.
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Sony Bravia? I get that when I use smooth mode in motion plus. I turn off everything also and use game mode for better response time.
 
Unknown Soldier said:
A lot of TVs have the full settings available in Game Mode. So yeah, you can calibrate both your Cinema Mode and your Game Mode.

But yeah, Game Mode is a lower input lag mode which disables most of the TV's image processing to improve the lag. I always play games in Game Mode.
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Exactly, after calibration my TV looks identical in Game Mode to Movie mode, aside from color warmth which I use Standard for gaming and Warm 2 for watching stuff.

I am kind of shocked how many people mange to play in non-game mode with all that input lag without noticing the difference. There's very few models, and they are quite expensive so I doubt they are common, that have low input lag on non-gaming mode.
Quite perplexing.
 
Hedrush said:
Sony Bravia? I get that when I use smooth mode in motion plus. I turn off everything also and use game mode for better response time.
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No it's a Samsung but it was a smooth mode.
Someone said it made 30fps feel like 60.
I liked it but it messed the graphics up.
 
I definitely notice a difference in input lag between my normal settings and game mode.
But I never use game mode because it makes everything look like crap on my tv.
Weirdly enough I was worse at guitar hero live when I turned on game mode.
 
Do most tvs have game mode? I've looked on the ones that I own and none of them seem to have it. The most recent one was only bought a year or two ago so it's not like they're outdated.
 
etta said:
Dafuq? Is there any other way?!
How do you guys deal with the massive input latency added lol
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Easy, I don't notice it.

So yeah, I don't play with GAME mode on though I am aware of it. Too hard to get used to the difference in quality personally.
 
It seems like a lot of people in this thread don't realize that you can calibrate game mode to near perfection just like you can any other movie mode. It won't be quite as good since most TVs have to disable certain settings to achieve the low latency, but it should be close. I had my TV's game mode calibrated alongside day/night modes for movies and I can't see any noticeable difference when switching back and forth. There's no reason to not use game mode for video games.
 
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