Author Topic: Beat my Frame Rate? (Read 2097 times)

Eagler · « **Reply #30 on:** April 01, 2004, 03:40:45 PM »

depends on the resolution the monitor is set at

the lower the res the higher the possible refresh rate

Skuzzy · « **Reply #31 on:** April 01, 2004, 03:41:30 PM »

Market demand aside, it costs quite a bit to get higher vertical refresh rates. You have to go to expensive rare earth phoshors and the electronics are much more expensive.

I have a professional series NEC monitor and it can run at 102Hz @ 1280x1024 or 136Hz @ 1024x768. High quality monitors are getting harder and harder to come by. People just will not pay the prices for them as they do not understand the benefits of them.

The higher end video cards are more about not dipping to unplayable levels when in a high detail environment.

BenDover · « **Reply #32 on:** April 01, 2004, 04:39:25 PM »

Where abouts is the D3D vsync switch for an Ti 4200?

I can find the OpenGL option...

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #33 on:** April 01, 2004, 11:24:09 PM »

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Market demand aside, it costs quite a bit to get higher vertical refresh rates. You have to go to expensive rare earth phoshors and the electronics are much more expensive.

I have a professional series NEC monitor and it can run at 102Hz @ 1280x1024 or 136Hz @ 1024x768. High quality monitors are getting harder and harder to come by. People just will not pay the prices for them as they do not understand the benefits of them.

The higher end video cards are more about not dipping to unplayable levels when in a high detail environment.

Nice. how much one of those run for?

Skuzzy · « **Reply #34 on:** April 02, 2004, 10:14:52 AM »

They seem to be running somewhere in the neighborhood of $450-$500 for a 19 inch model now.

Replicant · « **Reply #35 on:** April 02, 2004, 10:21:59 AM »

I have a Iiyama Vision Master Pro 454 19" monitor running at 102 hz at 1600 x 1200. Very pleased with this monitor!

NHawk · « **Reply #36 on:** April 02, 2004, 10:26:10 AM »

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Originally posted by capera
So I guess I need a monitor with a 120Mhz refresh rate.

My stock Gateway VX730 can run 100Mhz at 1024x768. So, that's the resolution I fly in and get consistent 100fps in AH1 no matter what the situation (except tank town), varies now in AH2 between 40 and 90 depending on the situation.

mars01 · « **Reply #37 on:** April 02, 2004, 10:37:21 AM »

What is the MAX rate the eye can process or where there is no added benifit?

BenDover · « **Reply #38 on:** April 02, 2004, 11:22:23 AM »

Apparantly some scientists say its 60, which I think is aload of bull****.

humble · « **Reply #39 on:** April 02, 2004, 12:08:53 PM »

zmeg....what drivers are you running? We have about the same system...I'm running a 2600+ on a gigabyte board with 512 pc 2700 DDR and Ti 4200. Kind of amazed that your running about 3x the fps....what am I missing?

Siaf__csf · « **Reply #40 on:** April 02, 2004, 12:13:53 PM »

Actually scientific experiments show that the human brain can detect flicker up to kiloherz frequencies even though the test subjects aren't aware of it.

It causes stress, headaches and concentration problems. Common cause of trouble are fluorescent lights that are common in offices. With them, I often see severe flickering even though the monitor is displaying 85hz or more. It's caused by the harmonic effect between the monitor and fluorescent light flickering.

The only way to remove the problem is to use conventional or halogen lamps or to buy electronic switching devices for the fluorescent tubes (they raise the flicker to 30 000 hz which is not detectable by brain at present knowledge.)

ChasR · « **Reply #41 on:** April 02, 2004, 04:10:57 PM »

I pretty sure in a blind test I could tell the difference between 60 and 75Hz. I doubt I could tell the difference in 75 and 85Hz and I know I couldn't tell the difference between 85 and 100Hz. The higher refresh rates may be easier on the eyes over long periods of staring into the monitor.
The monitor I use on my Ace's High #1 computer is the Samsung 1100df. Its optimal resolution is 1280 x 1024 @ 85Hz, which is what I run. It will display 2048 x 1536 @ 75Hz. $445 @ newegg.

Samsung 1100df @ Newegg