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Monitor help!
Created 17th January 2009 @ 15:01
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Hey, I have two monitors currenlty. One for home and one for uni. My home one is a CRT iiyama 100Hz monitor which is 17inches and my Uni one is a 22inch ASUS MQ221U widescreen LCD.
I basically want the best of both worlds. My CRT is a great monitor for gaming and I love it, however my LCD isn’t so great. Although it has a 2ms delay the cap of 60fps is just horrible. However it’s size is great and I do love the bigness!
I was wondering if anyone knew where I could purchase a large CRT monitor with good refresh rate. Preferably from the UK. Thanks
You should be able to easily get 75Hz with an LCD with lower widescreen resolution, let’s say 1280×800. It reduces the tearing pretty much. You just need to create a custom resolution from your GPU’s settings probably. Don’t know about CRT’s tho =]
Good advice is above but if you are deadset on a CRT monitor I suggest Ebay, people literally giving them away for free or the postage price.
Mike
Hmm, got a question here as well.
LCD-Widescreen-Monitor here:
When I set the res to 1680×1050, I can set the refresh rate to 60Hz only
However if I set the res to 1280×800, I can switch the refresh rate between 60,72 and 75 (or so).
So if I use an ingame-res of 1280×800, how many frames can my monitor display? 60 or 75?
If my native desktop resolution is different to my ingame resolution then will my refresh rate be capped at that? I mean atm Im using a high res for desktop and that is capped at 60Hz and then ingame a low one (not even a widescreen res). Will my ingame automatically change to 75Hz? Or do I need to set my desktop res to the same as ingame to get the same refresh rate.
Add “-freq 75” to command line.
Your desktop resolution can be 1680×1050@60Hz and your in-game resolution (if you are not using windowed mouse) can be different, 75Hz for example, depending on the resolution ofcourse. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refresh_rate#Liquid_crystal_displays
use 60hz, 75hz is preserved in most lcd due to backward compatibility reasons.
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