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Ok, this is a lot of technical questions for one week, I know, but I'm going insane here.
I'm attempting to play a computer game (Call of Duty) and every time I start the game the refresh rate of the monitor reverts to neanderthal-60 Hertz per sec. So I leave the game, change the resolution in WINDOWS into what I think I'll use in the game, to kind of puppy-train the computer into using MY refresh rate of choice whenever it finds itself in a resolution I've tried.
No deal. I go into the game, I change the res into 800x600 or 1024x768, still the same damn 60Hz, and it literally gives me a headache looking at it.
This never happens in other games, and my GeForce Ti-4600 card is not to blame.
So, what software do you people use to preset and lock down the refresh rates for any given resolution, so that no game or program can violate your settings?
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Download NVidia's refresh rate fix for 2000/XP, and RivaTuner to get the most out of that ol' 4200.
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That is one of the strangest quirks introduced in XP. Previous Windows versions always defaulted to the highest possible resolution of graphics card and monitor, whereas now they default to 60hz. Have they given any explanation for this change?
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When I have 550 bucks to throw away on a 19in. flatscreen, maybe. As of now, my 20in. Hitachi will have to do, and it does.
Thanks, Cartman. The RivaTuner took some time to figure out, but at least the game now uses 85Hz @ 1024x768, a level of survival I'm prepared to accept.
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LCD monitors have that rubbish response times thing that makes games blurry and like...shit.
Unless you spend a lot. And no-one ever seems to want to spend a lot on a monitor, considering the number of people I know still using the 14inch ones that came with their original computers.
Er, LCD monitors are crap resolution changing things. Yes.
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That is subject to change, but I suspect it'll take about five more years or so before the prices have fallen and the tech has risen so much that people seriously start switching over. LCD's are okay for low-level office work or at the cash register at the supermarket, but for picture editing and gaming, not yet.
Indeed, the fabled "low response time" figure has quickly developed into an advertising argument, though they're still nowhere near that of a good CRT.
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I have to admit, I'm reading this on my in-laws' PC and I just checked their refresh rate - yup, 60; I set it as high as it will go, 72, but there's not a lot of difference that I can see. It is a flatscreen of some kind, I should probably know since I picked the PC when they bought it it. . .
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TSN, you have to go backwards to see change. If you're used to 60 Hz you don't think about the flicker.
Try this, go to 800x600 res and max out the refresh rate, it can usually take at least 120 Hz on a glass monitor, mine can go to 144. Look at it for a while, THEN go back to 60 HZ.
On some monitors, having a bad refresh rate makes the screen look stripy, like with lines every other pixel row, "RoboCop"-view. My brother had that once so I kicked up the refresh rate a notch, he was like "What did you just do now???".
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I've noticed that my monitor has those stripey lines. But unfortunately 60 Hz is as high as my display will go. The monitor is brand new so its more than likely the hardware, which is about 5 years old or so.
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I don't know, monitors and graphics cards from 1999 could do rather well. What resolution are you using? How big is your monitor? What kind of beer do you like? If it's at least a 17" monitor and your graphics card is from 1999 you could easily do 1024x768 at 75-85 Hz.
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"LCD monitors are crap resolution changing things."
That's the only thing that still has me clinging to my 19" CRT for dear life. Not their meagre color vibrancy or long crystal response delays or dead pixels, but their bloody fixed resolutions. I don't want to sacrifice too much screen real estate, so I won't go for anything smaller than a 17", but since 1280x1024 (the native resolution of a 17" LCD) already makes me squint, I don't even want to THINK what the 1600x1200 of a 19" will do to me' eyeballs.
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