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[Turm]

Originally Posted by iambecomelife

Also, waves will sometimes flicker where they meet a ship's hull. It's very annoying and my hardware had been working fine for a long time; this seems to have happened out of the blue. Adjusting the refresh rate doesn't help. I have an 8800GTS (640MB).

I have the same flickering problem where waves meet a ships hull, and I have an old ATI Radeon 9800 Pro! It doesn't happen in all conditions though. Possibly only when anti-aliasing is on, but even then not always - maybe it's weather & time-of-day dependent. So maybe it's something inherent to the game rather than your particular hardware & driver setup.

I have a 19" CRT running at 85Hz. Part of the reason I don't want to change to an LCD is because they don't tend to come in 4:3 ratio (in larger sizes at least), so SH3 will end up being distorted. I don't want an oval periscope view.

[fubar]

iambecomelife

do you have vertical sync switched on in your graphics card driver?

[MONOLITH]

Originally Posted by iambecomelife

For some reason I have been getting a strange "tearing effect" whenever I pan the free camera.

Turn "Vertical Sync" to ON in your driver settings and that should go away.


Onelifecrisis, I'm at 60hz; because it's a widescreen LCD at 1680x1050. It won't do over 60hz at that particular res. But like someone else said, refresh rate may be a non issue with LCDs.

I could always notice the flickering of light colors with my old CRT at 60 hertz, no such issue with the LCD.

[Sailor Steve]

I voted "Huh?"

[Wolfehunter]

Originally Posted by JScones

You guys with LCD monitors do realise that refresh rate in terms of hertz is irrelevant, right? (Although the current talk of 180Hz LCD TVs sounds interesting)

Refresh rate relates to CRT screens; CRTs must constantly redraw the screen, since the phosphor layer only glows for a short time. The hertz frequency determines how many times per second that the screen is redrawn.

LCDs don't have a refresh rate in this sense - the transistors on the screen maintain a color and brightness until the video card tells them to change. The total time it takes the monitor to make this change is referred to as the response time and is measured in milliseconds.

LCD monitors include hertz frequencies for supporting analogue connections/video cards (those that need to sync to a refresh rate). Most LCDs, if not all, support 60Hz and 75Hz for this reason. Choosing 60Hz is more than sufficient and actually is of no consequence: 60Hz ~ 16ms - I think all LCD response times are now less than this (mine is 2ms).

Yes I'm aware. For the finer detail of my monitor is 2000:1 DFC and 5ms Response Time.

[panzer 49th]

Mine runs at 120 hz.

[dcb]

CRT monitor @75 Hz here.