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Oct 22nd, 2002, 10:47 AM
JoshT

XP Refresh

http://www.xp-refresh.net/

You guys aware of this?
Oct 22nd, 2002, 03:58 PM
A$$Bandit

Yeh I knew about this problem, cos I had to play GTA3 through with 60Hz refresh rate and it really hurt!
Oct 22nd, 2002, 06:11 PM
JungleMan

Yep. I'm one of the very few who can't tolerate 60Hz on the desktop for the life of me, but in 3D I wouldn't notice.
Oct 22nd, 2002, 06:33 PM
CyberSurfer

There are utilities for both ATi and nVidia cards to fix this.
Oct 23rd, 2002, 06:35 AM
parksie

There's PowerStrip as well, for every video card.

I normally try and keep it up past 85Hz if possible. I run most games at 800x600 at 120Hz, rock solid :D
Oct 25th, 2002, 08:43 PM
JungleMan

Quote:

Originally posted by parksie
There's PowerStrip as well, for every video card.

I normally try and keep it up past 85Hz if possible. I run most games at 800x600 at 120Hz, rock solid :D

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Whoa..800x600, on a Radeon 8500? That's like a crime! :eek:
Oct 26th, 2002, 06:44 AM
parksie

I'm very sensitive to frame rates as well, and if I lose *any* response I get ratty and I like to have all the geometry detail on full, which entails putting the res down.

I do play Half-Life at 1600x1200 though :D
Oct 26th, 2002, 07:28 AM
JungleMan

Hmm; maybe with the exception of UT2003 you should be able to handle 10x7 at least in most games with a Radeon 8500. ;)
Oct 26th, 2002, 07:31 AM
parksie

I used to play *everything* at 1024x768 because that's all my monitor could do :D

It depends on whether I get good speed out of it. Plus I don't really notice the difference at the lower resolutions, it all blurs into an image anyway.
Oct 27th, 2002, 09:07 AM
CyberSurfer
For anyone interested, I'm currently developing a VB app (purely for my own enjoyment) to solve the 60HZ problem. I'm currently implementing fixes for the following chipsets:
- ATI RAGE PRO
- ATI RAGE 128/RAGE 128 PRO
- RADEON (including LE, VE, 7500, 8500).
- GeForce 3, both Ti200 and Ti500.
with more to hopefully follow. I'll probably be looking for owners of those chipsets to help me test the app, coz I only have a Rage128 Pro. If anyone's interested then reply to this thread, and I'll let you know :)
Oct 27th, 2002, 10:36 AM
nishantp

But like Parksie already said, aren't there already untilities to fix this? Or do they not work properly?
Oct 28th, 2002, 03:37 AM
CyberSurfer

They do, but like I said, it's for my own programming pleasure :p