Monitor refresh rate
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Jethro Bodine
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GF2 image quality is not the greatest, but it's certainly no slouch, unless you have a very cheap card.
What you're describing sound more like monitor related to me.
Most monitors don't look their best at the highest refresh they can support.
If the monitor is rated for 100 Hz max, then (unless it's a very good quality monitor) it'll probably look a lot better at the next lowest refresh (90 or 85 - whatever it is). When you push your average monitor close to it's refresh limit, the image quality really suffers.
Manufactures, to save money, use components that barely exceed the max specifications (and this is why there can be such a big price difference between what seem to be similar monitors - They'll both look fine at 75 or 85, but the quality monitor holds up better as you get closer to it's max refresh).
Again depending on the quality of the monitor and the components used, you may also be slighly lowering the life of the monitor by running it at it's max refresh.
Try backing off the refresh. If it's a modern monitor it should tell you the refresh it's running at when you bring up the monitor's onscreen control panel.
Generally flickering is caused by running at a refresh of 56 or 60 Hz. The Geforce and other cards sometimes default to 60 Hz in 3D games, no matter what you set the desktop refresh to. There's a fix for this: http://geforcefaq.com/faq.cgi#sw
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What you're describing sound more like monitor related to me.
Most monitors don't look their best at the highest refresh they can support.
If the monitor is rated for 100 Hz max, then (unless it's a very good quality monitor) it'll probably look a lot better at the next lowest refresh (90 or 85 - whatever it is). When you push your average monitor close to it's refresh limit, the image quality really suffers.
Manufactures, to save money, use components that barely exceed the max specifications (and this is why there can be such a big price difference between what seem to be similar monitors - They'll both look fine at 75 or 85, but the quality monitor holds up better as you get closer to it's max refresh).
Again depending on the quality of the monitor and the components used, you may also be slighly lowering the life of the monitor by running it at it's max refresh.
Try backing off the refresh. If it's a modern monitor it should tell you the refresh it's running at when you bring up the monitor's onscreen control panel.
Generally flickering is caused by running at a refresh of 56 or 60 Hz. The Geforce and other cards sometimes default to 60 Hz in 3D games, no matter what you set the desktop refresh to. There's a fix for this: http://geforcefaq.com/faq.cgi#sw
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