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I remember one time I was playing Fortnite 1v1s with a friend and just kept losing. Something felt severely off, my game inputs felt terrible. I couldn’t quite

by wps 8mo ago

I remember one time I was playing Fortnite 1v1s with a friend and just kept losing. Something felt severely off, my game inputs felt terrible. I couldn’t quite trace my finger on what the issue was until I lost a couple rounds in a row. Turns out I had forgot to set my refresh rate to 160hz, as I had just fresh installed Windows so I could play with my friend. After that I genuinely won dang near every round. It is absolutely insane how when you switch from 60hz to 120+ you don’t really notice anything—but switching back makes you feel like your device is defective.

magicalhippo 8mo ago
Back when I got the first 120Hz monitor I used my old 60Hz LCD as a secondary monitor. Moving the mouse cursor across felt like it went from free and fluent to moving through molasses. As you say, I hadn't noticed anything when I just had the 60Hz monitor.
- wps 8mo ago
  Likewise with the resolution. I briefly maintained a dual monitor setup, one was a vertical 1080p 27 inch monitor and the other was 4k. The pixel density of the 1080p monitor was genuinely Paleolithic in comparison, so I couldn’t even use it because of how obviously I could tell. But when it was my primary monitor it never occurred to me.
KronisLV 8mo ago
It always seemed a bit weird to me because both the game FPS and the monitor refresh rate matters - currently I only have 60 Hz monitors (4x1080p ones, a work setup mostly, some gaming) and when playing War Thunder there's a perceptible difference between the game being capped to 60 FPS (with RTSS or just running with VSync on), vs allowing it to run at 120 FPS or more. The monitor doesn't even support VRR.
- PowerElectronix 8mo ago
  Even if your monitor is going at 60Hz, you still benefit from a higher refresh rate ingame as the info you get from the screen is more recent.
gcarvalho 8mo ago
I was never very good on FPS games, but during pandemics I would play often with friends. One day I pop up a practice map in cs:go where one of the challenges is shooting a fixed target after it turns green. If you don’t do it within 250ms or something (nothing crazy in terms of human reaction time), then you don’t score. I was flabbergasted to see myself miss every single time. My friend even told me “dude, are you pretending? How are you so slow?” So the next day I got a new mouse and what do you know, I’m actually responding in time, and scored most of the time when the rectangle went green. Just the mouse was not registering it fast enough. Of course, that didn’t translate into such a huge boost in actual gameplay, but it’s impressive how that made me consistently miss. Likely it had some crazy 50ms+ lag.

by wps 8mo ago

magicalhippo 8mo ago

Back when I got the first 120Hz monitor I used my old 60Hz LCD as a secondary monitor. Moving the mouse cursor across felt like it went from free and fluent to moving through molasses. As you say, I hadn't noticed anything when I just had the 60Hz monitor.

wps 8mo ago
Likewise with the resolution. I briefly maintained a dual monitor setup, one was a vertical 1080p 27 inch monitor and the other was 4k. The pixel density of the 1080p monitor was genuinely Paleolithic in comparison, so I couldn’t even use it because of how obviously I could tell. But when it was my primary monitor it never occurred to me.

KronisLV 8mo ago

It always seemed a bit weird to me because both the game FPS and the monitor refresh rate matters - currently I only have 60 Hz monitors (4x1080p ones, a work setup mostly, some gaming) and when playing War Thunder there's a perceptible difference between the game being capped to 60 FPS (with RTSS or just running with VSync on), vs allowing it to run at 120 FPS or more. The monitor doesn't even support VRR.

PowerElectronix 8mo ago
Even if your monitor is going at 60Hz, you still benefit from a higher refresh rate ingame as the info you get from the screen is more recent.

gcarvalho 8mo ago

I was never very good on FPS games, but during pandemics I would play often with friends. One day I pop up a practice map in cs:go where one of the challenges is shooting a fixed target after it turns green. If you don’t do it within 250ms or something (nothing crazy in terms of human reaction time), then you don’t score. I was flabbergasted to see myself miss every single time. My friend even told me “dude, are you pretending? How are you so slow?” So the next day I got a new mouse and what do you know, I’m actually responding in time, and scored most of the time when the rectangle went green. Just the mouse was not registering it fast enough. Of course, that didn’t translate into such a huge boost in actual gameplay, but it’s impressive how that made me consistently miss. Likely it had some crazy 50ms+ lag.