I got an Nvidia driver update once that stopped the monitor doing high refresh rates and high resolution and G-Sync and all. Was fairly astonished to find updating the *monitor's* firmware fixed it. Worked fine before the GPU driver update. A lot of this stuff seems to be pretty shonky
30 FPS was the standard frame rate in games for many years and it doesn’t bother many people. 60 hertz has been the standard refresh rate for monitors for many years and 30 hertz is painful.
Conversely, when I turn on my 24-year old clamshell iBook G3, I find myself admiring the bright, clear screen.
The small 800x600 resolution on a 12-inch screen looks crisp and detailed, whereas my Pismo PowerBook G3’s 1024x768 14-inch screen looks a little blurry.
I watched a YouTube video extolling the beauty of the new iPad Pro display (some kind of magical dual layer OLED thing) and I kind of want to go see one in person. But if I do I know I'll want one and I don't really need it.
Seems to be going around. My 144hz LG monitor has this odd issue where the very top line of pixels somehow gets transposed to the bottom of the screen. I've looked everywhere and can't figure out what the issue is. Tried both DP and HDMI cables, same thing, as well as every OSD setting
I had an issue like this and it turned out to be my cable. 30Hz fallback often means that there was a data transmission issue. Replacing the DisplayPort cable with a higher quality one fixed the issue.
Turn on? You mean wake from sleep? Do people actually turn off their computer other than for cleaning, software updates or shit like that? I haven’t turned mine off for months (behind on updates)
Roommate had a game decide to lock itself at 30fps last night and he sounded like he was losing his mind. Its weird how big of a difference frame rate makes when you take it away
i used to have that with my old 120hz, but it would set itself to 60... so i never noticed until i played cs and started bottom fragging because the game felt weird xd... same display liked to change its own resolution with a different aspect ratio sometimes 🤔
Whenever I play certain games, my 165hz monitor used to set itself to like 45.7hz for some reason, and my screen would begin flickering wildly. Just about gave me a seizure.
That'll be adaptive sync. The display is supposed to adjust itself to the frame rate of the game on the fly.
Some displays have a narrow range they can cope with and just flicker horribly when a game goes outside that range. Your "45.7" will be the mininum it can handle.
Freesync itself is fantastic, the fault is with the monitor manufacturer playing fast and loose with it. Freesync Premium is the spec to look for when you're choosing future monitors as the spec is tighter.
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The small 800x600 resolution on a 12-inch screen looks crisp and detailed, whereas my Pismo PowerBook G3’s 1024x768 14-inch screen looks a little blurry.
30 Hz
It was annoying because it was at a convention, I hadn't used windows 11 before, had no idea what was going on
Windows 10 seems to handle it better? They mightve since fixed that specific one in win11 too?
thing that happen but I am too ill-informed to realize it
That said, there are days when I miss the almost unearthly beauty of my old Sony Trinitron. 🤣
It's either fully on, or shutdown.
Does make me laugh when people say we can't see more than 30 fps though. I can see the difference moving my mouse around the desktop. 😂
I'm lost.
Or updated the drivers for your monitor.
lane and you retina's are letting you have it.
Some displays have a narrow range they can cope with and just flicker horribly when a game goes outside that range. Your "45.7" will be the mininum it can handle.
In summary: Turn it off.
I don't care how much of a performance hit vsync is. It gets rid of screen tearing without trying to give me a seizure.