High refresh rate monitors.

Shlouski

Shlouski

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I have been googling for ages and i can't seem to find the answer im looking for. I used to have a 75hz monitor, but i replaced it with a full hd 60hz monitor. I personally can see the difference between 75hz and 60hz. I don't mind lower settings if it means i can play at 75 fps, but i also like the sharp high resolutions.

My question is: If i have a 120hz monitor, (playing in 2D) can I set v-sync in a game to lower hz like 75hz or 100hz and then lower the games settings until i get 75 or 100 fps, so i get 75 or 100 smooth individual frames?

Basically i want a 1920 x 1080 @75hz monitor.
 
Your GTX 580 can blow away any game at 1080p even with a 120hz monitor. I don't think you'll have to drop your settings while still using a refresh rate of 120. The only bottleneck I could see possible is maybe your CPU as it's a bit dated, but it's still very powerful.

Unless you have a particular fancy towards 75??
 
well its just some games like crysis 2 on DX11, which will challenge my card and i would be happy with setting that get me 75 fps. The thing is ive read that people have been getting artifacts when they gey less than 120 fps on a 120hz monitor.

This is a quote of another forum: "When VSync is enabled, your graphics card becomes a slave to your monitor. If at any time your FPS falls just below your refresh rate, each frame starts taking your graphics card longer to draw than the time it takes for your monitor to refresh itself. So every 2nd refresh, your graphics card just misses completing a new whole frame in time. This means that both its primary and secondary frame buffers are filled, it has nowhere to put any new information, so it has to sit idle and wait for the next refresh to come around before it can unload its recently completed frame, and start work on a new one in the newly cleared secondary buffer. This results in exactly half the framerate of the refresh rate whenever your FPS falls below the refresh rate."

If this is true can i tell my monitor to run at 75hz, as im more likely to stay above 75 fps than 120 fps?
 
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Being technical, yeah you can set your monitor to 75hz. Go to screen resolution settings > addvanced settings > go to monitor tab and you'll see the option right in the middle.

Your other solution is....not using v-sync. I promise you that graphics card will have no issue giving you solid frames even on crysis 2. I've seen this first hand. V-sync is used to steady your fps so they aren't jumping all over the place and causing tearing. That is only an issue on weaker graphics cards. Not your beast.

Either way. You should have no issue with a 120hz monitor.
 
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