Above 60hz gaming

McGraw

McGraw

McGraw

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I’m a 4k/60 gamer. Mainly flight sims, racing and story driven FPS.

Part of me wants to see 120hz and above in action but I’ve always avoided it due to knowing 60hz will never look the same again and my budget will need to increase...what you don’t know, can’t hurt you etc.

The thing is, as I understand it, high refresh is very useful for competitive twitch shooters etc. But only a nice to have with other types of gaming.

Having never seen it I have to imagine it just makes the image less blurry and smeary as you move around.

Is that right or is there more to it? If I quickly turn round in real life, the image is motion blurred. Will driving sims be noticeably better for instance?

I know it would be nice to have smoothly scrolling web pages and moving windows but is it really worth the extra hardware?
 
Webzta said:
Everything is smoother :)

As you expect though, gaming at 60Hz after looks & feels bad.
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Well yes but as I scroll around in RE3 for instance it feels smooth enough to me. There is nothing missing like when you game at 30fps. That never felt right
 
It is far smoother as a whole,any game looks smoother RPG, racing even platformers with a k+m. It adds a new level of clarity and realism it’s hard to go back.

Set your screen to 30hz and tell me it feels the same in the games you play ;).

Depends on what you want. 1080p 120hz isn’t expensive. 1440p 120hz IS the sweetspot but can get expensive but with the new GPU’s a 3060 or 3070 can drive that well enough.
 
tyler_jrb said:
It is far smoother as a whole,any game looks smoother RPG, racing even platformers with a k+m. It adds a new level of clarity and realism it’s hard to go back.

Set your screen to 30hz and tell me it feels the same in the games you play ;).

Depends on what you want. 1080p 120hz isn’t expensive. 1440p 120hz IS the sweetspot but can get expensive but with the new GPU’s a 3060 or 3070 can drive that well enough.
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I know 30hz isn’t smooth, I used to play FSX at half vsync.

60hz is much smoother. To the point where I don’t feel the need to chase higher.
 
I used to have a 60hz panel and i went into the nvidia panel to 'overclock' the refresh right up to 72hz without issue. Obviously your mileage may vary, but if you want your 60hz screen to refresh, its worth a quick try. There were no lasting effects and the only issue was re-adding the 'overclock' every time the driver was updated.

Its all at your own risk and i wouldn't go mad (trying 144hz for example), but for a small improvement, its worth a shot. On my screen, when the Hz was too high its would simply not allow it and there were no other issues (heat for example).
 
McGraw said:
I know 30hz isn’t smooth, I used to play FSX at half vsync.

60hz is much smoother. To the point where I don’t feel the need to chase higher.
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It’s smoother but 120hz+ is the same smoothness jump again.

I went from 1080p 60hz to 4k 60hz and there was a big difference, really did enjoy it. But the biggest step up for me ever gaming was my first 144hz monitor. There is just a whole new level of realism and clarity that comes with the faster refresh rate.

The difference is insane. To the point I don’t think I could ever play at 60hz again. It just feels super sluggish and honestly like wading through treacle.
 
I wouldn't game on 60hz again, imo 144hz doesn't even feel high enough so I'm sure there'll be higher in future - presumably with microled, I also think variable refresh rate is a must but whether that's gsync or gsync compatible or freesync doesn't matter.

As for hardware, I use a gtx 1080 with 144hz 1440p IPS and most games get well above 60fps, I'm not convinced fps would be high enough at 4k for it to really show much improvement, I think the response time of IPS at around 4ms is noticably worse than TN's 1ms at high refresh rate.

If I was buying now I'd probably aim for 1440p 240hz TN + 3070.
 
I game at 60hz also. Will be an expensive slope if I go the route of higher refresh rate.

Anyhow I do photo and video editing and have 3 24inch 1080p screens. The 2 side ones are at 45 degree angle to the primary middle one. So I wanted 100% srgb panels for colour accuracy and IPS for decent viewing angles. I don't think you can get high refresh rate 100% srgb IPS panels but would love to be proved wrong.
 
VincentHanna said:
4K/120hz is going to need a 3090 GPU and even then you will need G-sync as it won't hit a consistent 120fps.
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you don't need a 3090 to play at 4k/120hz a 1080 TI can run a 4k 120hz but again it won't hit a consistent 120 Hell even a RTX 2080 Ti will struggle to do 4K 120Hz in most modern AAA games. only Duel GPU will
 
tyler_jrb said:
It’s smoother but 120hz+ is the same smoothness jump again.

I went from 1080p 60hz to 4k 60hz and there was a big difference, really did enjoy it. But the biggest step up for me ever gaming was my first 144hz monitor. There is just a whole new level of realism and clarity that comes with the faster refresh rate.

The difference is insane. To the point I don’t think I could ever play at 60hz again. It just feels super sluggish and honestly like wading through treacle.
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Think I’ll leave it. Won’t be get above 60hz in fs2020 so no point in ruining it by going to a higher refresh.
 
McGraw said:
I’m a 4k/60 gamer. Mainly flight sims, racing and story driven FPS.
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I play at 4k and have a 120 Hz monitor (Acer Nitro - it will do 144 Hz). Playing at over 60 Hz is great, feeling much more fluid. It's a trade-off between GPU settings and frame-rate. Pay no attention to nay-sayers like VincentHanna who appear to have no actual experience. Any game can cripple any GPU - RTX and Hairworks come to mind - so it's always a compromise.
 
mcronline said:
I used to have a 60hz panel and i went into the nvidia panel to 'overclock' the refresh right up to 72hz without issue. Obviously your mileage may vary, but if you want your 60hz screen to refresh, its worth a quick try. There were no lasting effects and the only issue was re-adding the 'overclock' every time the driver was updated.

Its all at your own risk and i wouldn't go mad (trying 144hz for example), but for a small improvement, its worth a shot. On my screen, when the Hz was too high its would simply not allow it and there were no other issues (heat for example).
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Wait you can overclock your display?!? I currently have a 60Hz 4K TV that I’m using as a monitor (pending a 3080 FE IF I can get one). How would I go about overclocking?
 
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