Samsung SyncMaster 931C - a few questions

[Caius Britannicus]

My dad was ever so kind to get me this supposedly AMAZING LCD monitor, and everything I read on the web says its the best 19" LCD on the market. So I've super happy with it so far (except for some view angle issues, which I can get over). However I popped in my favorite games (Rome: Total War and Medieval 2 Total WAr) to have some fun. I had already set all the color, brightness and contrast settings to my liking. THe screen resolution is set to native res of the monitor and the refresh rate of the monitor is set at 60Hz. So I play the games (only games I have installed right now) and both suffer from SEVERE ghosting. The 931C is suppose to have 2ms response time which is suppose to effectively eliminate ghosting. However its really really really bad. Anyone with a 931C experience the same issues? Am I just unlucky and maybe I need to return the monitor for a new one? Any input would be greatly appreciated.
cheers.

EDIT: Even scrolling these forums I am noticing pretty heavy duty ghosting on quotes or where colors differ in the main index.

EDIT: I figured out what the problem was. It turns out theres this feature thats suppose to make the response time work dynamically. Turning it off as someone suggested in another forum has removed the ghosting. I am so happy.

[Spiff]

Hmm what would the benefit of having it operate on the fly like that? I cant see why they would have a feature like that.. especially when it apparently doesnt work.

[Caius Britannicus]

It boggles my mind too. According to the manual it "says" that it will increase the response when its needed. The only thing I can think of is that it conserves power by using a higher response time (4-8ms) in most situations and that when playing the games it wasn't recognizing that it had to decrease the response time.

Whats even worse about the feature is that I have to turn it off EVERY time the monitor comes back on, even if its just in a sleep mode. However, I would still recommend the monitor to people. Once I fixed the ghosting, the image really really did look amazing. The colors are very vibrant and crisp.

[Spiff]

Maybe it requires special drivers to work reliably for games and such? Otherwise seems a bit odd - but then at least it can be disabled.