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Damaeus wrote:
> In news:alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt, "So It's Come To This?"
> <slirm@home.com> posted on Thu, 19 Aug 2004 22:42:21 GMT:
>
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>>I was wondering what the general consensus is on this. I have my resolution
>>set to 1152x864 (32 bit color) and have my RR set to 75hz (max). I've tried
>>lowering it, but don't notice any difference. Is there a big difference
>>between settings? Say between 75 and 70? Thanks.
>
>
> If you set your refresh rate to 60Hz, that means the monitor is updated
> sixty times per second. Some people claim that human eyes can't perceive
> more than sixty frames of animation per second,
That is a myth, probably derived by people hearing about the Television
60Hz field rate who then project it into a perception assumption. I.E.
"well, since a TV works then..." Those with a little bit more knowledge
will make the same kind of claim drawn from the true frame rate of 30 Hz,
and 24 in movies.
Studies show, however, that pilots perceive aircraft flying at relative
speeds that far exceed those slow 'rates'. I.E. you'd never see them at all
on a 60 Hz refresh rate monitor, or at 75 Hz, or at 100Hz, but people *do*
see them in the real world.
> or 60Hz refresh on a
> monitor,
That is taking the TV reason for 60Hz and presuming it applies to monitors.
It doesn't because, for one, the TV 60 Hz refresh rate selection presumed a
particular viewing distance from the screen that does not apply for
monitors, and the presumptions about visual content are different. The fact
of the matter is that the power line frequency had as much to do with it
and is why it's 50Hz in Europe.
> but some of us actually can.
Virtually everyone can when sitting in front of a monitor. If not
consciously then it'll manifest itself as eyestrain.
> I have to set my monitor to 75Hz to
> get rid of that annoying flicker.
>
> The refresh rate of your monitor can vary depending on its quality. My
> monitor will refresh at 85Hz at a resolution of 1920 x 1440. Some cheaper
> monitors can only refresh at 60Hz at 1024 x 768. Some monitors can only
> refresh at 85Hz when at 800 x 600. My monitor refreshes at 160Hz at 800 x
> 600, but I never run it at that resolution because I hate it and I need a
> lot of workspace.
>
> Now, enter frame rate of the game you're playing. For the sake of making a
> point, suppose your monitor can refresh at 85Hz but your graphics card can
> only pump out 75 frames per second. It doesn't hurt to have your monitor
> refresh at 85Hz, but you wouldn't want to set your refresh rate to anything
> lower than 75Hz because then you'd be shortchanging yourself by missing
> frames your graphics card is perfectly capable of delivering to you.
>
> HTH,
> Damaeus