Forcing Refresh Rate - ATI/Vista?

Gimpymoo · 9 Apr 2007 at 00:20

Anyone know if this is possible like with the XP drivers?

gareth170 · 9 Apr 2007 at 11:16

Gimpymoo said:
Anyone know if this is possible like with the XP drivers?

no.. it only goto what your monitor can take. my monitor is 75hz so its running at 75hz...

Gimpymoo · 9 Apr 2007 at 11:21

Sorry. I think you misunderstood.

Not all games will natively run at your maximum refresh rate, THEREFORE, the ATI driver software had an option to FORCE all directx apps to run at a your own specified refresh rate, that being your monitors maximum supported refresh rate.

I would use ATI Tray tools but I dont believe that exists for Vista x64 yet

marc2003 · 9 Apr 2007 at 11:24

edit: nvm, i posted about vsync which is another issue...

Gimpymoo · 9 Apr 2007 at 11:28

Thanks marc2003.

Thats charming

The "Force" option in DirectX10 is not present which you could use in DX9 to manually set a refresh rate.

I think it might be a DX10 issue specifically

. Seems a step backwards though?

DAS · 9 Apr 2007 at 12:42

Gimpymoo said:
Sorry. I think you misunderstood.

Not all games will natively run at your maximum refresh rate, THEREFORE, the ATI driver software had an option to FORCE all directx apps to run at a your own specified refresh rate, that being your monitors maximum supported refresh rate.

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I'm sure I did see that option in Vista's ATI Catalyst Control panel, but it doesn't appear now. That could be because it was in a previous version (7.2?) or because I have just changed my monitor.