Quick overview:
Note (12/12/2004): This tip is no longer up to date, as the latest drivers from www.nvidia.com correct this misconduct. If you have purchased a graphics card with the widely used Nvidia chipset, e.g. the V7700 from Asus with Nvidia GeForce2 GTS chipset, the good speed and quality of the card is spoiled by a bug in Windows 2000. In games and applications that work with Direct3D and OpenGL, the image flickers at a low 60Hz. This is particularly noticeable with bright colors. The eyes do not put up with this for long and start to water and burn.
Only from approx. 85Hz does our eye no longer perceive flickering. It does not matter if you set e.g. 100Hz at a resolution of 1024x786 in the display properties for Windows - if you now go to 1024x786 in the game, you will still only have 60Hz because the settings (unlike in Windows 9x/Me) work separately from each other. To obtain an ergonomic refresh rate, proceed as follows:
1. Click here to download the program Rate Patch Now go to the directory and start the tool.
2. You can then easily set the refresh rate for each mode. However, I recommend taking a look at the monitor manual before setting too high a value here. This can damage it. To be on the safe side, you should first set everything to 85Hz.
3. After you have restarted the program as required, you can immediately see the eye-friendly values.
NOTE FOR NEW PUBLICATION: This article was produced by Sandro Villinger and comes from the Windows Tweaks archive, which has been built up since the late 1990s.
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