Best Refresh Rate for eyes and gaming

Born_2_Kill_83 · 28 Nov 2006 at 22:10

I know a fair bit about PC's and gaming but one thing im not so clear on are Refresh Rates. So maybe you people can help.
I recently got myself a 19Inch Widescreen TFT Monitor and Im running it a 60 Hertz, Is this the best setting to reduce eye strain for spending a few hours a days sat in front of it. Reason I ask is sometimes I get small headaches and sickness feeling after a while. Any one else have this problem I would like to hear about it and how its best solved :cool:

Cheers

Kreeeee · 28 Nov 2006 at 23:30

Borden · 29 Nov 2006 at 09:26

On my TFT if i set it to 60Hz then my eyes strt to water and it hurts to look at the screen after a while. As soon as i set it to 75Hz i'm fine.

MadMatty · 29 Nov 2006 at 09:34

60 is the sweet spot for me as on crt 75 tends to look slightly blury and hurts my eyes and if I look away, the world around me seems to flicker. at 85 a full blown migrain kicks in. if not had access to any monitor with higher refresh rates to see other effects, but 60 is the safe norm for me.

fish99 · 29 Nov 2006 at 12:27

First thing - TFTs don't (or shouldn't) flicker no matter what refresh rate you use, plus they mostly work at 60 Hz internally, so setting the refresh rate to 75 Hz doesn't really change anything, although it can sometimes give you a higher framerate if you play games with v-sync on. If a TFT is making your eyes water or giving you headaches that's far more likely to be down to the brightness, so turn it down. Most TFTs on default settings are miles too bright.

On an TFT the pixels don't reset to black between each refresh like they used to on a CRT, they simply stay the same colour until the pixel colour changes.

harris1986 · 29 Nov 2006 at 12:34

100 for me on my crt! all depends on what resolution though to be honest, but i keep cs 1.6 at 640x480 100hz and desktop 1024x768@100hz also

bitslice · 29 Nov 2006 at 12:38

I find it really odd that people can sit in from of a 60Hz CRT screen without their brain catching fire or something.

I just have to change it to 85Hz
....then I have to clean their useless gunged up mouse

pffft, users....

I've seen whole offices happily flickering away because nobody sets the display up properly. :confused:

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sprognak · 29 Nov 2006 at 12:44

Check your TFT specs. You'll find they have a native scan rate between 50-75. Use that for minimum flicker.

If you're seeing flicker at the designed spec, it's likely power line ripple or a faulty panel. My SyncMaster 152V (about 4 years old) is becoming more and more prone to this showing "flicker" especially at startup. Once it's been running for 5 mins it's fine.