120Hz Refresh Rate

Post by **Foo** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 5:54 am

Anyone know of an affordable monitor that can push high-resolution high-refresh rates?

I'm on an LCD at the moment and as good as it is for games, nothing beats running quake 3 at 120Hz refresh rate. Nothing.

I guess I'm looking at finding a second hand high-end graphics monitor, maybe an SGI jobbie with a convertor or and old mac screen.

Most monitors I can find only push up to 85hz at 1024 or such, do you know of any that can push 120Hz at 800*600 or 1024*768?

Post by **Foo** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:19 am

riddla wrote:My Nokia 445 Pro 21" does 120hz @ 1024. Probably the main reason I've yet to go LCD on my gaming rig.

If you don't already, get that running in quake 3 with picmip 5 and the whole works and watch your accuracies skyrocket.

Having mouse sampling, FPS and refresh all around the 120Hz mark is very slick.

Post by **dzjepp** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:40 am

I run 800x600 @ 120Hz, it is quite sexy indeed.

Post by **Eraser** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:19 pm

riddla wrote:I have a 6800GT so I run at picmip 0 - fuck all that picmip 5 bullshit.

That's the spirit!

Post by **dubz** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 4:44 pm

ive got a samsung 959nf and i dont think it said in the specs that i can run 1280@120, but i can select it anyway, if i try 1900 the 150 hz option isnt there anymore just from 100 down, so would this hurt my monitor or something?

Post by **Oeloe** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:06 pm

riddla wrote:I have a 6800GT so I run at picmip 0 - fuck all that picmip 5 bullshit.

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Same. Promode skins is enough. But simpleitems are BS to me too. Doesn't improve visibility at all. Picmip+vertex can be counterproductive too sometimes because of lack of contrast. In some maps the floor has the same colour as your nades, so they're invisible on it. -_-

The only tweak i use is r_intensity 1.65 and r_overbrightbits 0 to make the shadows less deep.

I still wish that vsync could be used in Q3/Q4 without the mouse lags; i played with 100 Hz 100 FPS which is _ULTRA_ smooth, but flick shots are just really bad because of the lags/sensitivity drops. The LG Flatron F900P is a great screen (awesomely vivid colours) and does 1024@130 Hz, 1280@95 Hz. I have my F700P at 1152@100Hz, at 1024 it's just below 120 Hz. 150 Hz at 800x600...

Post by **dubz** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:25 pm

vsync is sync every frame in the game menu?

Post by **Oeloe** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 7:00 pm

dubz wrote:vsync is sync every frame in the game menu?

I keep forgetting that. r_swapinterval is vsync anway, but there's another cvar called r_finish that controls something related to vsync.

Post by **dubz** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 7:09 pm

so is vsync the sync ever frame option in the game menu? i have it on but will turn it off if that is the case

Post by **Oeloe** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 1:12 am

Too lazy to check the value of r_swapinterval in the console? :icon29: Sync every frame doesn't change that cvar iirc so it doesn't really make a difference.

Post by **CheapAlert** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 3:04 am

Post by **Oeloe** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:56 pm

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Post by **Foo** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:03 pm

CheapAlert wrote:lol

Hey, I may be vastly better than you at this game but that doesn't qualify me as a pro :icon32: