Gaming on a 120Hz monitor

MireMare

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Hey guys, I am interested in getting into the magic that is 120fps gaming.

I'm pretty sure I can play L4D (my main online game) with my rig at this frame rate, what gear are you guys using for monitors?

I've not even seen a 120Hz monitor yet but my friend in Wales tells me that it looks fantastic, once you've played on one you don't want to go back, apparently. Is it really that good?
 
i game on an overclocked 1440p korean monitor with a samsung pls screen in it. it runs at 110hz (couldn't get it stable at 120hz)
looks fantastic and totally smooth. without the downsides of using official 120hz monitors that use inferior TN panels with rubbish viewing angles and 1080p resolution.

i recommend this setup to anyone now.

I also tried a while back one of the samsung 120hz 3d monitors (can't remember exact model, but a high spec model) and i sent it back cos the image quality was too inferior compared to the 1440p 60hz monitor i was using at the time.
 
The only thing that put's me off 120hz is the fact you would feel the need to always have the best graphics card so your as close to 120fps as possible.

I guess it's not such a big thing anyway for people who were gaming in the crt era who knows what 100fps looks like on a display capable of showing it.
 
Friend in wales you say? hummmm might know them :p

at first I was highly skeptical of people I knew with them saying it makes a difference/noticeable. but when at LAN and i got to see BF3 played side by side with 120Hz and 60Hz monitors there is definitely a noticeable difference. A bit odd at first looking like the game play was actually sped up but more just smoother transition between frames.

Shortly after I bought myself a BenQ 120Hz monitor and never regretted it! As I said, gameplay looks and feels that much smoother so much so that if for some reason you load up a game and the monitor/game revers back to 60Hz mode you can tell pretty much instantly.

on a side not 3D is all that amazing IMO. More of a novelty than anything. It can make games look pretty sick but every game I try it with, it doesn't like to render shadows correctly and instead of them adding depth they stick out in the foreground :(

in summary, 120Hz is awesome for playing, 3D...wouldn't really bother, but give it a go :)
 
85fps is about the sweet spot before it becomes incredibly hard to tell any difference.

on crt the actual screen refreshed like a slide show the amount of times its refresh rate was set to so it's not quite the same but I'd imagine the outcome is.
 
arknor said:
The only thing that put's me off 120hz is the fact you would feel the need to always have the best graphics card so your as close to 120fps as possible.

I guess it's not such a big thing anyway for people who were gaming in the crt era who knows what 100fps looks like on a display capable of showing it.
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Ah, I did have a fantastic CRT monitor before buying my Samsung, totally forgot that I could get that running at more than 60hz, but I didn't have a great gaming PC then so I only saw desktop stuff moving about.
 
Sasso said:
Friend in wales you say? hummmm might know them :p

at first I was highly skeptical of people I knew with them saying it makes a difference/noticeable. but when at LAN and i got to see BF3 played side by side with 120Hz and 60Hz monitors there is definitely a noticeable difference. A bit odd at first looking like the game play was actually sped up but more just smoother transition between frames.

Shortly after I bought myself a BenQ 120Hz monitor and never regretted it! As I said, gameplay looks and feels that much smoother so much so that if for some reason you load up a game and the monitor/game revers back to 60Hz mode you can tell pretty much instantly.

on a side not 3D is all that amazing IMO. More of a novelty than anything. It can make games look pretty sick but every game I try it with, it doesn't like to render shadows correctly and instead of them adding depth they stick out in the foreground :(

in summary, 120Hz is awesome for playing, 3D...wouldn't really bother, but give it a go :)
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Yeah he plays BF3 ridiculously well all the time, you might know him! 0xDEADFACE on Steam. Might be his tag on Origin too, I can't remember.

I really want to see one running now, like you did at that LAN.
 
hummm dunno if i do.... was thinking it could have been my mate Hadz but if he's awesome at bf3 then prob have bumped into him on a server :)

as a first step you can just go into tesco or the likes and have a look at their TVs, you can deffo see the difference there too watching a show in 60 and 120hz. another thing you can do to see the similar difference is go onto a streaming site like twitch.tv and have a look at two streams, one in 30fps and the other in 60fps... you can notice the difference there too, motion looks a lot more fluid. (i mostly watch MGS streams xD).

great excuse to come to lan or at least get a spectators pass ;)
 
No - Hz is how often the screen can change a pixel colour. FPS is how often the graphics card is generating a new picture.
 
arknor said:
how can a tv in a shop show a difference when movies are shot at like 24fps ? apart from the hobbit
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good point. not entirely sure how with tv but it's definitely there, I remember wathcing back to the future part 3 in tesco for a bit going..... "not sure if i like this.... looks like McFly is slightly in fastforward on this tv" haha

i think it's more to do with the transition between frames, gotta remember that it's not continuous. we're basically watching slide shows/flip books. so even though there may be 24 separate images, if divided over a greater number of slides (and maybe some voodoo magic) the transition between each still image is smoothed and less noticeable to the brain.


shankly1985 said:
Isn't Response time the change in Pixel??
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response time is the time it takes a pixel to go from one colour, to another and back again e.g. G-to-G as it's referred to sometimes.
 
Sasso said:
good point. not entirely sure how with tv but it's definitely there, I remember wathcing back to the future part 3 in tesco for a bit going..... "not sure if i like this.... looks like McFly is slightly in fastforward on this tv" haha

i think it's more to do with the transition between frames, gotta remember that it's not continuous. we're basically watching slide shows/flip books. so even though there may be 24 separate images, if divided over a greater number of slides (and maybe some voodoo magic) the transition between each still image is smoothed and less noticeable to the brain.




response time is the time it takes a pixel to go from one colour, to another and back again e.g. G-to-G as it's referred to sometimes.
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Ok thanks for clearing that up :D
 
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