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Damian Feb 8, 2019 @ 11:39am

60hz Monitors

How the F people play on 60hz Monitors?
It feels so bad... I move my mouse and it feels like a 1s delay.
FPS games on 60hz monitors are unplayable.

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Ralf Feb 8, 2019 @ 11:47am

Originally posted by G1K777:
How the F people play on 60hz Monitors?
It feels so bad... I move my mouse and it feels like a 1s delay.

It sound like your mouse is broken.

Cathulhu Feb 8, 2019 @ 11:50am

What the heck are you talking about? 60Hz means a refresh 60 times a second, or every ~16.7 milliseconds.
If you have such a big input lag, it's not caused by the refresh rate.

hawkeye Feb 8, 2019 @ 11:52am

Are you using a wireless mouse?

_I_ Feb 8, 2019 @ 11:58am

or a tv or intel widi?

this is widi lag

YouTube™ Video: Intel Wireless Display latency

Notebook with Core i7-2720QM and WiDi adapter Netgear PTV1000 More details http://www.dsl.sk/article.php?article=11045

Last edited by _I_; Feb 8, 2019 @ 12:03pm

Damian Feb 8, 2019 @ 1:20pm

I'm not using a wireless mouse.
I'm not using a wireless display.
I'm not using a broken mouse.

I just went from 240hz down to 60hz.

Autumn_ Feb 8, 2019 @ 1:37pm

Originally posted by G1K777:
How the F people play on 60hz Monitors?
It feels so bad... I move my mouse and it feels like a 1s delay.
FPS games on 60hz monitors are unplayable.

Originally posted by G1K777:
I'm not using a wireless mouse.
I'm not using a wireless display.
I'm not using a broken mouse.

I just went from 240hz down to 60hz.

I agree with him, may not be noticeable to most people, but honestly, when I'm moving my mouse around on a 60hz monitor, it feels ages behind what I'm actually doing. And it's skippy as ♥♥♥♥.
And, when typing things, if I'm typing fast, I can actually see the letter pop up way slower than on 144hz.

After using a 144hz monitor, I can say I'm NEVER going back to the trash that is 60hz.

And before you say my PC is 'broken' too, it's not. Because I had both of them hooked up at the same time, tested on both monitors at the same time.

r.linder Feb 8, 2019 @ 1:43pm

Originally posted by Autumn:
Originally posted by G1K777:
How the F people play on 60hz Monitors?
It feels so bad... I move my mouse and it feels like a 1s delay.
FPS games on 60hz monitors are unplayable.

Originally posted by G1K777:
I'm not using a wireless mouse.
I'm not using a wireless display.
I'm not using a broken mouse.

I just went from 240hz down to 60hz.

I agree with him, may not be noticeable to most people, but honestly, when I'm moving my mouse around on a 60hz monitor, it feels ages behind what I'm actually doing. And it's skippy as ♥♥♥♥.
And, when typing things, if I'm typing fast, I can actually see the letter pop up way slower than on 144hz.

After using a 144hz monitor, I can say I'm NEVER going back to the trash that is 60hz.

And before you say my PC is 'broken' too, it's not. Because I had both of them hooked up at the same time, tested on both monitors at the same time.

Same here. I use a 144 Hz monitor and 60 Hz monitor, and there is a noticeable difference.

Autumn_ Feb 8, 2019 @ 1:53pm

Originally posted by Escorve:
Originally posted by Autumn:

I agree with him, may not be noticeable to most people, but honestly, when I'm moving my mouse around on a 60hz monitor, it feels ages behind what I'm actually doing. And it's skippy as ♥♥♥♥.
And, when typing things, if I'm typing fast, I can actually see the letter pop up way slower than on 144hz.

After using a 144hz monitor, I can say I'm NEVER going back to the trash that is 60hz.

And before you say my PC is 'broken' too, it's not. Because I had both of them hooked up at the same time, tested on both monitors at the same time.

Same here. I use a 144 Hz monitor and 60 Hz monitor, and there is a noticeable difference.

Didn't actually mean to say 'most people', because people would notice a difference, however there are a few that won't.

r.linder Feb 8, 2019 @ 2:02pm

Originally posted by Autumn:
Originally posted by Escorve:

Same here. I use a 144 Hz monitor and 60 Hz monitor, and there is a noticeable difference.
Didn't actually mean to say 'most people', because people would notice a difference, however there are a few that won't.

Really depends on a person's eyes, you'd think

Damian Feb 8, 2019 @ 2:47pm

The next cool thing is when you look around and you can't see sh**, it looks more like someone spill oil in your eyes.

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Revelene Feb 8, 2019 @ 4:13pm

While I definitely enjoy high refresh rates and frame rates on my PC, that does not make low refresh rate and frames rates unplayable.

I happily play on the Nintendo Switch as well and my favorite game on there is Breath of the Wild, running at an "unplayable" 30 FPS on a 60hz screen.

There is a difference but not a difference that ruins playability. That would be like comparison of a Bugatti and a Civic... That Civic is just undrivable, right?

Last edited by Revelene; Feb 8, 2019 @ 4:41pm

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AbedsBrother Feb 8, 2019 @ 4:26pm

Originally posted by G1K777:
How the F people play on 60hz Monitors?
It feels so bad... I move my mouse and it feels like a 1s delay.
FPS games on 60hz monitors are unplayable.

#FirstWorldProblems #Elitist

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Autumn_ Feb 8, 2019 @ 5:30pm

Originally posted by Revelene:
While I definitely enjoy high refresh rates and frame rates on my PC, that does not make low refresh rate and frames rates unplayable.

I happily play on the Nintendo Switch as well and my favorite game on there is Breath of the Wild, running at an "unplayable" 30 FPS on a 60hz screen.

There is a difference but not a difference that ruins playability. That would be like comparison of a Bugatti and a Civic... That Civic is just undrivable, right?

Well, to be fair, the switch is a console, like Xbox and PS4, you're not using something as 'fine' as a mouse and keyboard.
So you're going to feel detached (And the delay from the wireless controller anyway.)
It's not going to matter if you've got 60hz or 144hz, you're not going to notice so much because of the form of control.

As for the 60hz screen of the switch, I have one, and I almost exclusively run it docked when I play things, so it puts most games to 1080p60fps, and I've got it plugged into my 144hz monitor, and it's actually quite enjoyable, I can't say I've had any problems with it.

And personally, anything below 50-55fps really hurts my eyes, strains them, gives me headaches, makes them really itchy (inb4 get your eyes tested.)
So (personally), it does ruin the playablity for me, just like Xbox and PS4, I can't play them because of the framerates, not because of the refreshrate of the display I've got it plugged into.

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