There's picmip 0. Picmip 1 is useless ...

I prefer picmip 7, though, it allows you to play much faster cause you can see stuff faster. Even a CRT monitor can't keep up with high speed play at high graphics settings, the phospors don't go from light to dark and vice versa quickly enough. I like a video to show how the game looked when you played it, so you are seeing what the player saw. That's a proper replay. Videos need higher framerate, not lower picmip.

Um, CRT monitors dont use phosphorus pixels, thats TFT screens you're thinking of. Oh, and welcome to 2011, where TFT screens have been fast enough for gaming in the past, oh, 10 years.

Phosphor persistence

Various phosphors are available depending upon the needs of the measurement or display application. The brightness, color, and persistence of the illumination depends upon the type of phosphor used on the CRT screen. Phosphors are available with persistences ranging from less than one microsecond to several seconds.[11] For visual observation of brief transient events, a long persistence phosphor may be desirable. For events which are fast and repetitive, or high frequency, a short-persistence phosphor is generally preferable.[12]

Exact,
your a techy that understands .