how to change the refresh rate?

[Doctor Zombie]

I have a 144 hz monitor and I want to play insurgency at 144. How do I set the games refresh rate to 144

[Emperor Zombie]

Idk, but Maybe you could set it via the launch options -refresh

"-refresh <rate> - Force a specific refresh rate."
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1040-JWMT-2947

[nuh1]

You can try "fps_max <rate>" in console. Works in most source engine games, don't see why it wouldn't work here too.

[nuh1]

Originally posted by ๖ۣۜAgent-1138GB:

Your monitor will always refresh at 144hz, the game will not. Pro top, your eyes are unable to detect anything greater that 60fps

Pro tip, eyes seeing only 60fps is a just a myth.

Very complicated explanation but it is basically: Your eyes can notice frame differences at even 1000fps, most games won't have enough action to notice the changes so 200fps would be a better number in which you start having trouble seeing the differences. In a blind study, a large percentage of the players preferred 120hz monitors vs 60hz monitors because of the smoother framerate. The 60fps myth came about because of the common 60hz refresh rate of lcd monitors, old CRTs were even 70+ because each frame was flashed and any lower your eyes would notice the frame pauses and it would give you headaches.

Saddens me that this is still a widely believed myth in gamers today.

[nuh1]

Facts are facts, myths are myths.
At least the myth is only 60fps, god forbid that old meme of the eye can only see 24fps come back.

It was actually Hardware.info who did the study.
http://us.hardware.info/reviews/4592/vast-majority-of-gamers-prefers-120-hz-monitors
86% preferred 120hz

[Doctor Zombie]

Thanks guys the ffix was -refresh 144. And as for the comment , "you can't see more than 60 fps" this is true, if you don't have a 120 or 144hz monitor, lol. You caan feel and see the difference ! Especiallly if you do like an 180% turn real quick, before it would blur everything in the turn , now it is all crisp and clear!

[nuh1]

Originally posted by bigmeatty:

And as for the comment , "you can't see more than 60 fps" this is true, if you don't have a 120 or 144hz monitor, lol.

It's more like, your monitor won't show more than 60fps with a 60hz monitor. But some people prefer to have a bit more than 60fps to have those extra buffer frames uncase some frames drop but you stay above 60 to not notice the dropped frames. That and some engines will actually run faster/smoother at higher framerates, like higher tick CS servers, and quake/unrealengine.

But saying the eye can only see 60fps is just ugh. It's like saying all cars are only capable of going 60mph because the speed limit is 60mph.

[CompileError]

I can't believe there are still guys think human eyes can't see over 60 fps. That's stupid.

[Duque Aralho]

Originally posted by Agent-1138GB:

Your monitor will always refresh at 144hz, the game will not. Pro top, your eyes are unable to detect anything greater that 60fps

thats because you cant afford a monitor with 144hz and you never seen one!!
once you go 144hz you never go back to 60hz.
why is that? hummmmmmm

[Galileus]

Originally posted by CompileError:

I can't believe there are still guys think human eyes can't see over 60 fps. That's stupid.

There's a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of console gamers who believe there's no noticable difference between 30 and 60fps :/ To make matters worse, developers started openly lying about 60fps, stating that 30fps gives "more cinematic experience". Which is obviously ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, because 30fps in cinema is acceptable due to viewers being only viewers and having no input into the movie of any sort. A gamer on the other hand does notice an input lag, and smoothness cannot be artificially improved because of unpredictable nature of games. Editor always knows what will happen in next, 100th and 100th frame from now, your GPU does not.

First time I switched from 30 to 60 fps ages ago, difference was obvious, but not all that obvious. But a long time passed from back then, and now if I experience drop to 50FPS I can easily notice it, and 40 feels sluggish and unresponsive.

[Brainlaag]

Originally posted by ShRv Oppa Oppa Gali Style:

First time I switched from 30 to 60 fps ages ago, difference was obvious, but not all that obvious. But a long time passed from back then, and now if I experience drop to 50FPS I can easily notice it, and 40 feels sluggish and unresponsive.

I can fully relate to this. Years ago while I was stuck on my old rig I could easily play on 30fps, now it just feels awful once it drops below 60.