newtekie1120Hz doesn't appeal to modern gamers, or at least it shouldn't. How many of you actually manage to keep a constant 60FPS in modern games as it is? I'm guessing very few, and if you are managing a constant 60FPS, you need to turn the graphical settings up higher to improve the image.

Most people, with V-Sync on are usually sitting at 30FPS, and that is smooth, upping the refresh rate to 120Hz isn't going to give you more FPS, with V-Sync on you are still going to be sitting at 30FPS.

Even if you are managing 60FPS, you probably aren't getting much higher, which means again with V-Sync you are still going to be stuck at 60FPS.

Where this technology really helps is the HD Video field, that is where this is meant to be a benefit, not in gaming.

qamulekI don't want infinite refresh rate screens... I want an LCD monitor that only updates the screen whenever the gpu wants to update the screen.

From wiki:



Do you get what I'm saying now? Update the screen when the gpu wants to update it, not at a fixed Hz.

chronyou have no idea what you're talking about. Even if it's "modern games" everyone plays, I still play plenty of games where I get well over 60 fps with vsync off. Team Fortress 2 is a "modern game" that plenty of people play, and when i turn vsync off i can get into the 200's. Same with counter strike; I can see my fps hit close to 300 at some points.

Either way, if people want to use this for gaming, don't TELL them it won't be of benefit as if you already own one and know.

Musselsmy 8800GT can manage 100FPS in quite a few games... and you've missed a step.

You're going by the assumption that

A. Vsync is on
B. Vsync is using double buffering, meaning the FPS has to be divisible from the refresh rate.

If i
A. ran with Vsync off, i would have the entire 0-120 range for my FPS - WITHOUT the typical tearing
B. i ran with triple buffering

then i would not have the problems you speak of.

chronyou have no idea what you're talking about. Even if it's "modern games" everyone plays, I still play plenty of games where I get well over 60 fps with vsync off. Team Fortress 2 is a "modern game" that plenty of people play, and when i turn vsync off i can get into the 200's. Same with counter strike; I can see my fps hit close to 300 at some points.

Either way, if people want to use this for gaming, don't TELL them it won't be of benefit as if you already own one and know.

MusselsExactly my point too, thank you. not everyone plays games like crysis at max settings, steam games are massively popular and dont require much power, so its easy to breach 100FPS on those.

kyle2020i noticed the vsync issue a few weeks ago whilst playing some css - i assumed my screen was dying, seeing as i got 2 inch thick "tears" across my screen when i moved the view too fast. I never new Vsync corrected that, and that that is dependant on refresh rate. Thanks mussels! So assuming this monitors refresh rate is 120hz, the screen wont "tear" until 120fps+?

newtekie1I don't see why you think tearing wont' happen if you had vsync off, tearing occurs whenever the framerate is out of synce, not just when the framerate exceeds the refresh rate. So you will get tearing any time your framerate is out of synce with the refresh rate.

Team Fortress 2 is not a modern game, it is just an mod of Counter Strike Source based off the same HL2 engine from years ago.

newtekie1Yes, and they are all based off the same aging Source engine, which is why they all look like complete ass compared to the modern games released today. I don't consider games running on 10 year old engines to be modern, especially when they look like they are running on 10 year old engines. When I say modern games, I mean games running on modern DX 10 engines.

Musselsi KNOW higher refresh makes it go away because my old CRT did 120Hz and i TESTED it.

I never notice motion blur with my 8ms 60hz refresh rate monitor, I don't see the justification of this. I do find it funny that gamers gripe about motion blur on their monitor in one breath, then sing the praises of it when a game like Crysis has a motion blur effect....