What is this 60 hz refresh rate?

[Walleye]

with windows XP, apparently if i run it full screen i am forced to use a 60 hz refresh rate. Is this really a problem? I'm a little leery of DLing some freeware software, or dling something from microsoft as it would probably screww over something else.Is the 60 hz refresh rate really in fact a problem, or am i just way strung out trhinking the world is out to get m,e?

 

[josphII]

what are you talking about?

 

[Walleye]

an article at tomshardware.com said if i run a game fullscreen under windows XP, then it will no matter whatr have a 60 hz refresh rate. i was wondering if this is a big problem.

 

[GigaCluster]

The refresh rate is how many times per second the video card redraws the image on the monitor. A hertz is one time per second. So, 60 Hz means that the video card redraws your monitor screen 60 times per second. Usually, that number is so low that your eye can see the "flickering" caused by the fact that enough time passes between redraws that the image begins fading away before being overwritten with a new pulse. My screen is running at 70 Hz and I can still sense very slight flicker; many people cannot sense any flicker at this refresh rate.

Basically, the higher the refresh rate the better, as long as your video card supports it. Some video cards even support 120 Hz at low enough resolutions.

Low refresh rate can cause headaches and fatigue.

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: Walleye
an article at tomshardware.com said if i run a game fullscreen under windows XP, then it will no matter whatr have a 60 hz refresh rate. i was wondering if this is a big problem.

this is not true, the folks over at Tomshardware genarally know what they are talking about so I'm assuming you misinterpreted what they said. I have Win XP and run games all the time, it would really suck to be limited by such a thing.

-Spy

 

[Walleye]

you mau be running service pack 1, in which case audigy drivers are screwed... at least that's what someone else said.

the "fixes" to the problem are:

Service pack 1
Freeserve apps

i dont like either of these options...

 

[Yomicron]

SP1 partially fixed the problem. DirectX works fine, but OpenGL still drops to 60Hz.
Click for more info

I recommend using RefreshForce, I have had zero problems with it.

 

[Aenygma]

Sp1 only partially fixes the refresh problem (It only works with DirectX) If it's an OpenGL game then it will still be running at 60Hz which is horrible.

Like was said, d/l RefreshForce. I use that, and it works like a charm.

 

[Mem]

What is this 60 hz refresh rate?

I think you mean this (this one is for Nvidia cards only btw) [/quote]NVRefreshTool is a utility used to fix the problem in Windows 2000/XP that sets your refresh rate to 60Hz when you play ANY game. This problem occurs whether or not you have a higher refresh rate set in your Display Properties of Windows.

NVRefreshTool is simple and easy to use. Just load up the NVRefreshTool program and it will automatically detect the maximum refresh rate at each resolution that your monitor supports. If you're an advanced user, you can customize each refresh rate at each resolution.

Currently NVRefreshTool supports all Detonator versions. [/quote]


link ,nobody likes being stuck at 60Hz in gaming when you can have 85Hz and above for D3D & OpenGL .

 

[Walleye]

but i am gonne have an ati 9700 card.

 

[Mem]

but i am gonne have an ati 9700 card.

You can use RefreshForce from here .

 

[Eug]

Anybody have this 60 Hz limitation with 2D? ever since getting a new card, I cannot run anything flicker free. EVERYTHING seems to be 60 Hz to me, even if I select 100 Hz.

See here.

 

[MrCoyote]

Originally posted by: Eug
Anybody have this 60 Hz limitation with 2D? ever since getting a new card, I cannot run anything flicker free. EVERYTHING seems to be 60 Hz to me, even if I select 100 Hz.

See here.

Have you disabled "Use DDC information" under the displays tab? If you use RefreshForce, to get it to fully work, you disable that. Also, instead of setting your monitor to generic "plug&play", use an .inf file made specifically for the monitor. I use ReFreshForce with ATI 8500 and it fixed all 2D and 3D OpenGL/DirectX.