Monitor Refresh Rates

[WDCentral]

What should I have my monitor refresh rate on? I had it on "optimal" when I had Windows 98, and now I've upgraded it to Windows 2000 and have it on 85. Now i get sick (like carsick) whenever I play CS alot, which didn't happen before I upgraded.

Any help would be most appreciated.

 

[yobarman]

find out the highest refresh rate you can have for that resolution according to your monitor's manual and set it to that.

 

[eyez]

The cone cells in your eyes refresh a a rate of about 65 - 75 HZ. Any refresh rate higher than 75 should give a smooth picture without scan artifacts. But, if your monitor is capable of higher refresh rates, crank it up to the max

 

[Hawk]

I think the games in Win2k default to 60 Hz, and you have to manually change them somehow (in the registry?). Not sure though, sorry.

 

[Moz]

This is just a problem with nvidia cards in Win2k, you can get a utility to fix that or just fix it in the registry as you mentioned - no big deal though.