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How to run games at over 60 Htz in Win2000?

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Mule

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Someone told me that powerstrip can control that feature, but when I try to select DirectX and OpenGL settings, it does nothing, it won't open up a new window or anything, it's like I never clicked the button, anyways, is there any other program that will do it for me?
 
Powerstrip won't work. But this registry hack will:

Search for the monitor description key in your registry. It should be under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM. The key itself begins with "Mode1" so search for that to simplify things.

*EXAMPLE*
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Class\...\0000\MODES\1600,1200]
"Mode1"="30.0-100.0,0.0-140.0,+,+"

Now, to set it for a minimum refresh of 75, change the first O after the comma to 75 in the "mode1" string

*EXAMPLE*
"Mode1"="30.0-100.0,75.0-140.0,+,+"

It will now use 75 for the default refresh for everything, D3D and OpenGL. You can set the minimum higher if you know what your monitor can handle.

The only downside is the key required might not exist with the "default monitor" automatically installed on some systems so update your monitor drivers if needed.

 
borealiss-

Thanks for the email, but that is only for Nvidia based cards, I forgot to mention that I have a 32MB Radeon DDR.

I'll try the registry hack.
 
PowerStrip works for me.

The OpenGL and D3D buttons don't do anything for me either...but I just go to the general config and pick 85Hz there and it applies it to Quake3 for me.

The only problem is it does something weird to my brightness.

It starts out really dark for some reason...if I go and adjust the brightness up one notch is goes WAY up, and then I put it back down that one notch it goes down a bit to where it should be...

So every time I start Q3 I have to go touch the brightness button...(once you've moved it a notch brightness is completely normal, you can get the proper q3 default, just for some reason with powerstrip it comes out funny...)
 
I just hacked the INF in the nVidia drivers. You have to set the minimum refresh rate to what you want it at, stupid win 2k.
 
Stephen, what INF file did you edit. I would like to change the refresh rate in my games and Power Strip does not work right. Whenever I run PowerStrip my display goes wacko. The screen is divided into 1/3 and 2/3 with a black bar in the middle about an .5" thick.
 
Ok here is the fix.

Open the nv4_disp.inf form the location of your nvidia driver.
Find the your card in the list (I have a Geforce DDR = NV10DDR)


I play in 1024x768 32 bit so I found this line:
HKR,, NV10DDR_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "32 1024 768 60 75 85 100 120 0"

and changed it to (cause my monitor i 100hz):
HKR,, NV10DDR_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "32 1024 768 100 120 0"

Then install the drivers and you are playing at whatever hz you changed the lowest to be.
 
Diesel: When you say reinstall the driver, do I have to do that or did you mean something else. Also, if you do have to reinstall the drivers, won't the changes be undone?
 
Yep, gotta reinstall the drivers.

I just extracted the files out and edited the .INF and then put them back in the package and installed them from there.

 
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