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I don't think I understand what you're saying. I think you're concerned that because there's "buffers" there would be extra latency? There doesn't have to be.

• yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
  That's what I'm asking. When the monitor is live, it can draw a complete screen ~30+ times every second, so why does it take more than 1/30th of a second to start from nothing? Then, I speculated that the only reason I could think of was if the graphics card doesn't actually send every pixel every frame, and there's no way for the monitor to request a full refresh.
  • TylerE 4y ago
    Monitors don’t request anything. The monitor has to do a basic handshaking/negotiation before it even knows what sort of video stream to expect
    • yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
      Ah. And we couldn't stick... What, 4 ints of metadata in the video steam (width, height, depth, frame rate)? Not like we don't have the bandwidth. I can believe that, but it's disappointing that nobody bothered.
      • TylerE 4y ago
        Historically speaking bad things happen when you hand a display something it can’t handle - including not being able to see the settings dialog to fix it.