The entire environment is so much more rich and complex than H2, so it’s not too surprising that it’s tougher to overlay the HUD in a way that is very visible and readable. Hopefully they can find a tweak for that because until I learned weapon spawns, I had no idea what I was standing on half the time.

And I agree. Snowbound makes it really difficult to read messages. I was VIP the other day and had no idea until someone killed me. Of course, it probably didn’t help that I didn’t notice I had the overshield, either.

I actually really like the curved HUD. I think it adds to the realism. The coloring is a little faint. But I’m am starting to get more used to it. I still have a little trouble on Snowbound when I’m outside, but other than that I can make out text okay.

The blue flashes on the HUD when your getting shot really annoy me. They really obstruct my vision. Like you, I’ve also thought I delivered a killing blow, only to find the enemy still alive and then I’m caught with my proverbial pants down. I think the flashing in the HUD is a major factor in such encounters.

Changing the settings that need to be changed sounds like a daunting task. Perhaps I will pass the information along to someone a little more versed in tvs (i.e. add it to the honey do list!).

When you buy a CRT TV the manufacturer’s overscan settings are usually too high. The reason they do this is because getting perfect geometry is difficult and they don’t want to be bothered perfecting it. The largest distortions are most noticeable towards the edge of the frame. A lot of TV’s have really bad geometry with an hourglass effect ) ( bowed in. Other times the geometry may look like this ( ) bowed out. They set the overscan high and chop off the sides so that you get a relatively straight image in the center. This is bad because you are losing information and are not seeing the entire frame. The only remedy short of an ISF calibration is to learn about your service menu and carefully adjust the overscan yourself. This is not an easy task and you will need to educate yourself about e-w, trapezoid, corner functions etc. You can do this using tools such as “video essentials or avia.” Try to get 5% overscan which is a good compromise. The cardinal rule is always write down your default settings so if you screw something up you can go back to the original settings.