Refresh Rate and VSYNC Poll

What refresh rate do you run at? Vsync On or Off?

  • I have an LCD and run at 60Hz

    Votes: 76 33.2%

  • I have an LCD and run at 72Hz

    Votes: 5 2.2%

  • I have an LCD and run at 75Hz

    Votes: 36 15.7%

  • I have a CRT and run at 60Hz

    Votes: 11 4.8%

  • I have a CRT and run at 72Hz

    Votes: 8 3.5%

  • I have a CRT and run at 75Hz

    Votes: 20 8.7%

  • I have a CRT and run at 85Hz

    Votes: 62 27.1%

  • I have a CRT and run at 100Hz

    Votes: 24 10.5%

  • I have a CRT and run at 120Hz

    Votes: 9 3.9%

  • Other Refresh Rate

    Votes: 1 0.4%

  • I play games with VSYNC Off

    Votes: 103 45.0%

  • I play games with VSYNC On

    Votes: 72 31.4%
  • Total voters
    229
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Brent_Justice

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This has been a very interesting topic as of late looking at both VSYNC and refresh rates.

So here is a poll, let's see what people use :)
 
I run 75mhz on the LCD, and use Vsync. I have noticed ghost free, smooth game play.
 
I have a crt at 1280x1024 85hz and game with vsync off. Tearing is noticeable but not bothersome to me.
 
1024x768

No vsync

72 herts

Anything less, and it looks bad, anything more, and the middle of the screen gets fuzzy
 
CRT 19" 1280x1024 75hz vsync on

anything higher than 75hz, the screen goes fuzzy
 
Unfortunately my monitor doesn't do 100hz at 1280x1024, I ran any other resolution below this at 100hz.
 
LCD 1280x1024 at 60Hz.

I dont have a for sure as far as VSYNC. I dont run it most of the time because 60 and below is not smooth to me, and no you will never change my mind. But I must run it in HL2 or else I get massive headaches that make me amazingly sick.
 
CRT 1600x1200 at 100hz, V-sync enabled. $600 on a Viewsonic P225f. :D What good is even 1000+ frames per second if your monitor cant make em viewable?
 
DandyBear said:
CRT 1600x1200 at 100hz, V-sync enabled. $600 on a Viewsonic P225f. :D What good is even 1000+ frames per second if your monitor cant make em viewable?
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Smoothness in games. :D
 
Triple buffering + vsync seems to me like the best way to go if your system can take the triple buffering.

~Adam
 
Got LCD 16x12 use V-Sync in a couple of games where tearing is obvious. You cant use triple buffer in SLI according to nVIDIA. I have some games with the max and no tearing....FarCry seems to be one.
 
60hz Dosent seem to bother me on an LCD , on a CRT it would drive me mad!
 
Hate_Bot said:
1024x768

No vsync

72 herts

Anything less, and it looks bad, anything more, and the middle of the screen gets fuzzy
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Ditto for me.
 
I run at 1680x1050 60hz... and I use vsync in pretty much only Doom3 because that game tears way too much. it would be nice if LCDs could handle higher refresh rates only because of that tearing thing...
 
I have a CRT and I use 1024x768/100hz for desktop, 800x600/120hz for games. Vsync on
 
I run at 60Hz since I've never had a problem looking at it all day long.

Also play with vsync off with no noticeable tearing.
 
astern said:
I have a CRT and I use 1024x768/100hz for desktop, 800x600/120hz for games. Vsync on
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You're kidding right? You have a 6800GT and you only play at 800x600? Why did you spend so much on a graphics card?
 
Skrying said:
You're kidding right? You have a 6800GT and you only play at 800x600? Why did you spend so much on a graphics card?
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Well, obviously for single player games I jack up everything. But for multiplayer I play low settings (Higher FPS > pretty graphics when playing competitively .) :)
 
astern said:
Well, obviously for single player games I jack up everything. But for multiplayer I play low settings (Higher FPS > pretty graphics when playing competitively .) :)
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YOu realize you will never notice a difference with a framerate > 60 fps?
 
astern said:
Well, obviously for single player games I jack up everything. But for multiplayer I play low settings (Higher FPS > pretty graphics when playing competitively .) :)
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I understand, I'm in a CALi clan for CS:S right now and I would do CPL if I didnt have a real world job, lol. But I stand cant stand anything below 1024x768 in an FPS game, I notice that I get the same FPS either 800x600 or 1024x768, CPU limited at those resolutions.

DermicSavage said:
YOu realize you will never notice a difference with a framerate > 60 fps?
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Totally disagree, you dont see it, but you FEEL it.
 
Skrying said:
Totally disagree, you dont see it, but you FEEL it.
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you wont see or feel anything if you turn netgraph off...its all in your head :D . Frankly im fine as long as the game doesnt drop below 25fps i cant tell the difference i can however notice screen tear which to me is a bigger issue than low fps
 
cell_491 said:
you wont see or feel anything if you turn netgraph off...its all in your head :D . Frankly im fine as long as the game doesnt drop below 25fps i cant tell the difference i can however notice screen tear which to me is a bigger issue than low fps
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Its not in my head, and its required by CAL to play with net_graph 3 on.
 
Skrying said:
Its not in my head, and its required by CAL to play with net_graph 3 on.
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i guarantee you cant tell the difference between 60fps and 70fps...the human mind just isnt fast enough to tell that kind of difference
 
cell_491 said:
i guarantee you cant tell the difference between 60fps and 70fps...the human mind just isnt fast enough to tell that kind of difference
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I bet I can.
 
cell_491 said:
i guarantee you cant tell the difference between 60fps and 70fps...the human mind just isnt fast enough to tell that kind of difference
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You notice the change in framerate.
 
Brent_Justice said:
You notice the change in framerate.
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i dont argue that...but if i took two identical machines and set their monitors right next to each other running the same demo and capped one at 60fps and another at 70fps i bet there is no one here that could know which one is 60 and which is 70 short of a lucky guess
 
cell_491 said:
i dont argue that...but if i took two identical machines and set their monitors right next to each other running the same demo and capped one at 60fps and another at 70fps i bet there is no one here that could know which one is 60 and which is 70 short of a lucky guess
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You're changing the situation though. You dont play games at a constant steady FPS no matter what, it will change. When I'm playing a game I cant tell you the exact FPS but I cant can tell you when I'm getting a higher FPS or a lower one and I can feel the change between them, movement changes almost in games, and learning your system to know your FPS perfectly can often make you a amazing FPS player.

On a side note, Opeth owns you.
 
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