Utility for easily toggling the refresh rate between 60 and some max value

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Inspired by this tweet...

Not only will your monitor itself draw more power above 60 Hz (and that's a source of heat closer to you), but the idle power consumption of your video card will go up. On my nVidia GeForce 980 Ti, idle on the desktop, 60 Hz = 25 watts, but 144 Hz = 70 watts! That's huge!

...I wrote a little utility for automatically toggling your monitor's refresh rate between 60Hz and some max value (defaults to 100Hz). You can get it here: https://github.com/kostasvl/ToggleMonitorRefreshRate. It will toggle the refresh rate every time you run it. The idea is that you run it just before starting a game (to increase the refresh rate), and just after (to go back to 60). I recommend downloading and keeping the companion batch file next to the exe, and then that will automate everything as much as possible, if you just drop your game's shortcut on it. See the readme.

Works on my machine ;)
 
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