HDTV Input/Gaming Lag

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Has anyone else had a run in with this? Recently i've been in the market for a new tv and finally purchased a 32 inch Vizio 3d lcd this past week. It's been great so far, but i've noticed a brief input lag on it when gaming. It's only about 1/4 second delay, but it's enough to be a royal pain. It's not that big of a deal on games like Skyrim, but it's become borderline unbearable on games where split second decisions and timing are necessary (a la CoD and Madden)....especially if you like to play competetively.

The only way i've gotten it to be minimized so far is scaling back the resolution on the 360 to 420p and setting the tv to game mode. I'm hoping there is a way to fix it without sacrificing the 720/1080 resolution, but havent't found a solution yet. Any feedback or suggestions would be appreciated.
 
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Happened on a cheap tv I bought a couple of years ago. GPU was too slow. If it is like mine you will have problems with video lagging behind audio as well. Try the NFL Network for some reason it was particularly bad. Fortunately I was able to return it
 
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My vizio just felt cheaply made - it took like 10 seconds for it to registered when I changed the channel... I gamed on it for awhile but can't say I paid close enough attention to see if it was behind - I played a lot of our NCAA OD in NCAA '10 using that 32" vizio.
 
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Bassmanbruno said:
My vizio just felt cheaply made - it took like 10 seconds for it to registered when I changed the channel... I gamed on it for awhile but can't say I paid close enough attention to see if it was behind - I played a lot of our NCAA OD in NCAA '10 using that 32" vizio.
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I honestly didn't notice a huge difference (or that latency was even a problem) until I kicked a field goal when playing madden last night. The split second delay threw off my accuracy and the ball went 25 feet wide right. After I went into practice mode to try out kicking again I figured out there was a problem.
 
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If you play online, you won't notice the minuscule 0.05 second "input lag" over the 35.2 second connection lag.
 
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Go into advanced TV settings and see if you have smooth motion effect on. Turn it off if so
 
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Run the tv at its highest resolution. That's the native resolution. I'm sure it's probably 720p or maybe 1080. If the tv has a game setting try using that.
 
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If you play online you're gonna deal with lag no matter what system you use, what tv you have, or how good your connection is.
 
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govols/cc said:
Run the tv at its highest resolution. That's the native resolution. I'm sure it's probably 720p or maybe 1080. If the tv has a game setting try using that.
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The problem occurs when I run the xbox at any of the high settings (1080p, 720p). The TV's highest setting is 1080p. I haven't really noticed a way to change the resolution on the tv....only the xbox. Like I said in my original post, the only way i've gotten the lag to minimize is running the xbox at 420p and setting the tv to game mode. For some reason game mode has little to no effect when running it while under 720p resolution or 1080p resolution.


govols/cc said:
If you play online you're gonna deal with lag no matter what system you use, what tv you have, or how good your connection is.
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It's definitely not online lag. This occured last night in Madden while playing an online franchise matchup against the cpu and also in basic practice mode later on.
 
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duckman398686 said:
The problem occurs when I run the xbox at its highest setting. The TV's highest setting is 1080p. I haven't really noticed a way to change the resolution on the tv....only the xbox. Like I said in my original post, the only way i've gotten the lag to minimize is running the xbox at 420p and setting the tv to game mode. For some reason game mode has little to no effect when running it while under 720p resolution and 1080p resolution.




It's definitely not online lag. This occured last night in Madden while playing an online franchise matchup against the cpu and also in basic practice mode later on.
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Hdmi cable or stock cable?
 
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I've considered it, but running it off the av cable would be comparable to the 420p with gaming mode enabled option that i've said minimizes the problem. It would be more or less around the same thing, if that makes any sense.
 
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Maybe buy a better hdmi cable? A gold-plated one? I don't know the extent of the difference it would make.
 
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I'd say it's the tv. No matter what the specs are its hard to tell how a gaming system will work on a tv without playing games on it before you buy it.
 
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I have the same problem with my LCD 46" Samsung. There is a noticeable lag with playing. I hook the same system up to my 52" Sony in the man cave and the problem is gone. I play on a wireless connection and the tv with the lag is about 25-30 feet from the router, so its not a connection issue. Nothing Ive done has resolved the issue. Ive tried the smoothing effects, new cables, game setting etc.

Pisses me off too cause Id love to play these game on the LCD, but Im not good enough to overcome the handicap of the lag.
 
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