refresh rate and games

[spidey07]

Summary says it all. I've got a samsung 19" monitor and it can run 85hz at 1280x1024.

With my 6800gt games are likity smooth.

But what refresh rates are the games running at? 60? Anyway to force it to 85?

specifically this has to do with me squeezing the best performance/quality out of doom3 and farcry.

my line of thinking is I should run the highest refresh I can and enable vsync.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

for some reason dunno if its windows or what....but most games end up running 60hz ...u cant notice it if its a fast paced game tho. look in your graphics card control panel and u'll find refresh rate overrides this alows u to run what ever refresh rate u want at what ever resolution u want.....according of course to what your hardware is capable of

 

[OMG1Penguin]

Turn vsync on and run fraps to tell the refresh rate (if your card runs at refreshrate+, that is)

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
for some reason dunno if its windows or what....but most games end up running 60hz ...u cant notice it if its a fast paced game tho. look in your graphics card control panel and u'll find refresh rate overrides this alows u to run what ever refresh rate u want at what ever resolution u want.....according of course to what your hardware is capable of

so just force it through the control panel?

 

[Auric]

Yeah, if the game fails to offer RR configuration then you must resort to setting it via the graphics drivers or DirectX. ATI's RRO under the Monitor button on the Displays Tab sets both DirectX and OpenGL. I don't know about NVIDIA. Windows default is low to protect hardware, same as with the desktop. I read a claim that the default was increased from 60 to 75 with XP SP2 but don't know if that is true and in any case still requires user configuration for ideal.

 

[VIAN]

The game looks to either the driver which looks to windows or the game just looks directly to windows.

 

[klah]

http://www.hardocp.com/images/...31BUA1azClpi_3_9_l.gif

 

[Auric]

Nice! This and the FPD scaling options makes me think NVIDIA is pulling away from ATI in the driver dept, at least feature-wise, even if they aren't as stable according to the MS OCA database. Plus the video HWA in the 6600GT is really looking promising.

 

[zephyrprime]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
for some reason dunno if its windows or what....but most games end up running 60hz ...u cant notice it if its a fast paced game tho. look in your graphics card control panel and u'll find refresh rate overrides this alows u to run what ever refresh rate u want at what ever resolution u want.....according of course to what your hardware is capable of

so just force it through the control panel?

That doesn't work unfortunately because Windows set DirectX refresh rates separately from regular refresh rates. I don't know why the heck they do something so stupid.

There are various hacks to get around this like the old nvrefreshtool.