Playing games at higher refresh rates

[gxsaurav]

My desktop always stays at 1024X768 @ 85 Hz, with My GIgabyte Radeon 9600 Pro, but when I play any game it by default plays at 60 Hz which can be seen as the game flikers more then the desktop, is there anyway to increse this refresh rate, & is it safe to run something fast moving like games at 85 Hz with 1024X768 with 2X AA & 4X AF

 

[Budman]

Display properties>Settings>advanced>Displays>click on Monitor > refresh rate override set it to what HZ you want while gaming.

 

[gxsaurav]

This doesn't helps, it just makes the monitor stay at 85 Hz, not the game play at 85 Hz

 

[Nebor]

There's a windows XP patch for this...

 

[0roo0roo]

nvidia drivers have a force 3d refresh in advanced properties.
or theres a program called powerstrip i used to use with crts to force refresh.

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: gxsaurav
This doesn't helps, it just makes the monitor stay at 85 Hz, not the game play at 85 Hz

It does work- I do it myself with my 9600 Pro. Have you tried it yourself?
Other than that, try Powerstrip or something similar, it can lock refresh rates for certain modes.
Failing that, I'm fairly sure that dxdiag.exe has a refresh-rate locker for DirectX games, if that's what you're playing.

 

[Davegod]

Originally posted by: gxsaurav
This doesn't helps, it just makes the monitor stay at 85 Hz, not the game play at 85 Hz

not sure what you're saying here - after doing this the monitor is 85hz except when gaming, where it goes back to 60hz; or after doing this the monitor stays at 85hz in games, but you dont get 85fps???

If the former, I'm a little surprised but if you try the omega drivers there is a little app which comes with them called MultiRes, which sit's in the taskbar and forces your monitor to use the specified refresh rate. Note you have to set it though, it doesnt do it by default*: click on the taskbar icon, click on the desired resolution (and colour bits), go to Refresh and click on what you want**. Lastly go to About Multires and tick "Lock refresh rates". If that doesnt do it, ensure "lock refresh rates" is ticked and THEN select res & refresh

the Omega drivers are very similar to the ATI ones, he just takes the official driver and adds a few tweaks, and bundles a couple of little related apps with it. Most people prefer the omega's over the vanilla ATi ones.


* Even if the ticks are there initially.
** Make sure your monitor can actually do this refresh at that resolution. forcing the monitor to a res it is not supposed to be able to do CAN damage it.

 

[0roo0roo]

This doesn't helps, it just makes the monitor stay at 85 Hz, not the game play at 85 Hz

not possible. if your flipbook is running at 10fps, your fingers are moving fast enough to allow this to happen.

your saying games aren't using your windows settings, meaning your monitor is also running at lower hz..has nothing to do with being out of sync, the games just ignore desktop refresh. use powerstrip or nvidias drivers.... rage3d.com probably has something to help for ati. powerstrip works for all.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

This doesn't helps, it just makes the monitor stay at 85 Hz, not the game play at 85 Hz

not possible. if your flipbook is running at 10fps, your fingers are moving fast enough to allow this to happen.

your saying games aren't using your windows settings, meaning your monitor is also running at lower hz..has nothing to do with being out of sync, the games just ignore desktop refresh. use powerstrip or nvidias drivers.... rage3d.com probably has something to help for ati. powerstrip works for all.

I was going to suggest Rage3d's tweaker - it does have a refresh rate setter for ATi cards, which usually works. It lets you set the refresh rate for each available resolution.

 

[Cerb]

run dxdiag
in the last tab, choose override and set it to 85.

 

[Mem]

This doesn't helps, it just makes the monitor stay at 85 Hz, not the game play at 85 Hz

It does work,btw he means in ATI Control panel,click on display tab then select the monitor button and you see a list of refresh rates.

If you still find it doesn`t not work,try RefreshForce. .

 

[gxsaurav]

Ok, this directX thing works, as I m using Samsung Syncmaster 763MB Monitor(CRT), I changed the option in the last tab of dxdiag & it made the games play at 85 Hz, with the facility that if anythig goes wrong it will revart the refresh rate to 60 Hz back.

1 more thing, I m using Catalyst 4.2 & want to know that does that VPU Recoverer thing works with 9600 Pro cards too, or only with Radeon 9600 XT & 9800XT, rite now it's not enabled , as I m not sure weather to enable it or not

I prefer catalyst driver from ATI only, as I want official stability & reliability

 

[gxsaurav]

one more thing, is it safe for the monitor, game & system stability, to do this force refresh rate thing, I mean will forcing games to play at 85 hz affect my card or monitor?

 

[JBT]

Originally posted by: gxsaurav
one more thing, is it safe for the monitor, game & system stability, to do this force refresh rate thing, I mean will forcing games to play at 85 hz affect my card or monitor?

if the monitor can't use the refreshrate at high resolutions it probably won't work and it will revert to something safe. but if it doesn't well they yeah it could potentially damage it. Bascially just make sure you use a resolution that the Monitor can support at the set refresh rate.

 

[gxsaurav]

My monitor supports 1280X1024 at 75 Hz at the max & 1024X768 at upto 100 Hz, but I keep it at 85 Hz as I don't find much difference. so it is preety much native resolution, I guess now that it wont affect the monitor's life

 

[Mike99Pgh]

Some games have an *.ini file that will have a configurable monitor refresh rate in there. That setting will most likely always be set to "60" out of the box.

 

[Viper96720]

Use refresh force for opengl games. I've used that before so the games run at the same refresh as the desktop. Using an LCD now so problem doesn't matter anymore