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Does a hardcore FPS gamer do more damage to CRT display?
Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 11:53 am
by a13n
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.
Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 2:16 pm
by +JuggerNaut+
nope, as long as you don't manually enter a refresh rate that your monitor can't handle.
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 3:40 am
by a13n
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
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:19 pm
by ^misantropia^
a13n wrote:4. r_overbrightbits 1
Er? Explain.
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:37 pm
by Scourge
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.
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 3:00 am
by a13n
@^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.