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photo-mg Gibblet Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 10	Posted: 11-29-2005 01:26 PM                  Hi all , I've just purchased the 20 inch cinema display . Which looks great , is fab for dvds and photo work . But at the moment sucks at q3 in comparison to my old crt which has unfortunately died on me.Does anybody know how to make this baby sing at q3? is the refresh rate about 60hz?its just seems nowhere near as smooth as the old dead lacie . I am on a G4 , and I'm wondering if this is the reason things are not as they were. Is the new monitor forcing my graphics card to work at 1680x1050 res no matter what I set the graphics too in q3?
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photo-mg Gibblet Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 10	Posted: 11-30-2005 08:48 AM                  I have solved my own problem , do not put v sync on with a lcd . Things have much improved now that is switched off !!! happy with my purchase now!!
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Canis canis Joined: 14 Jan 2001 Posts: 17305	Posted: 11-30-2005 09:41 AM                  Interesting. I would expect Q3 would just synchronize to 60, 75, 85, 100Hz or whatever refresh rate your monitor is at, but to have the thing get all choppy on you is odd.
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photo-mg Gibblet Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 10	Posted: 11-30-2005 10:57 AM                  that would have been my thoughts to canis. which is why i had v sync on. the monitor is 60hz with vsync on best results were when fps was set to 60. But still not that great. Vsync off and fps 125[ img][/img]
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photo-mg Gibblet Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 10	Posted: 11-30-2005 11:01 AM                  oops !! anyway as I was saying at 125fps vsync off im back to how smooth it was on crt. To be honest try q3 at 249 fps if the server will let you it is definetly smoother than 125. Maybe I just have good eye's but i can clearly see the difference when playing.
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Canis canis Joined: 14 Jan 2001 Posts: 17305	Posted: 11-30-2005 12:09 PM                  I have a dual 2.5GHz G5 with a Geforce6800 in it. I set the com_maxfps setting to 500 and cranked the graphics settings in Q3 to the max, and I'm constantly getting several hundred FPS, so basically FPS isnt an issue at all.
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photo-mg Gibblet Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 10	Posted: 11-30-2005 12:43 PM                  ok , Im jealous canis ... but i just got widescreen to work loool someone was having problems getting it to work in q3. its seta r_mode "-1" seta customheight"1680" seta customwidth "1050" in the words of invidia , believe me its the way q3 should be played : )
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