Does a hardcore FPS gamer do more damage to CRT display?

Post by **a13n** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 11:53 am

I mean higher refresh rate and frequent, drastical refresh do more damage to CRT display.
Is this true?

NOTE:
I use to have 2 CRTs.
The newer, which is used for quake3(@85Hz, sometimes @100Hz), had gone faster than the older(mostly@60Hz).
In fact the older one is still alive.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 2:16 pm

nope, as long as you don't manually enter a refresh rate that your monitor can't handle.

Post by **a13n** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 3:40 am

So the possibility is limited to the followings.
1. I was just unlucky.
2. It was manufactured that way.
3. Bad condition(such as temprature and humidity)
4. r_overbrightbits 1

Post by **^misantropia^** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:19 pm

a13n wrote:4. r_overbrightbits 1

Er? Explain.

Post by **Scourge** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:37 pm

I would go with a combination of #1 and 'shit happens'. Sometimes hardware just dies. I've had newer monitors go out before old ones as well with no difference in any of those things.

Post by **a13n** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 3:00 am

@^misantropia^
God just whispered.
Do you feel more energy emitted when looking at the gamma-corrected bright desktop though quake3 is mostly dark?

@Scourge
But still.