Help about refresh rate

[Magnouver]

so my laptop is able to run on 300 hz but in order to have more battery life it change itself to 60 hz whenever its unplugged (or running on battery). if this process happened while I'm in a middle of a game or watching movie, is it okay? (lets say im playing games while suddenly the electricity goes down so my laptop switch to battery power and change its refresh rate to 60 in the middle of the game, is it okay ?

disclaimer: i know this is not the forum to ask this but i have no other idea where to post this (have tried to post this on the laptop manufacturer forum but it seems like the forum is not that active)

[Start_Running]

Most games offer no visual difference beyond 120hz., Many arfe pretty much soft capped to 60.
SOi no its not gonna be an issue for most games as far as I can figuree. Specific games may have issues with suddenly switching refresh rates like that.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

FPS game like the ones you play? Yes, you will notice.

Movies and videos, you won't notice.

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by Magnouver:

disclaimer: i know this is not the forum to ask this but i have no other idea where to post this (have tried to post this on the laptop manufacturer forum but it seems like the forum is not that active)

The Hardware and OS forum would probably have been most appropriate but it's fine here.
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/11/

Originally posted by Magnouver:

is it okay ?

Not sure what context this falls under. It's not going to damage your laptop, if that's what you're asking. You will notice an overall performance degradation as laptop power profiles are usually set to lower everything, display brightness, refresh rates, CPU/GPU speeds, etc., when switching to the battery to extend the uptime provided by the battery. It's by design so it's "okay".

[Magnouver]

Thanks everyone, what i mean is “is it going to damage the display or laptop” and i got the answer already

Thank you

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

FPS game like the ones you play? Yes, you will notice.

Movies and videos, you won't notice.

^This.

Originally posted by Magnouver:

Thanks everyone, what i mean is “is it going to damage the display or laptop” and i got the answer already

Thank you

No it won't damage your laptop.


If you want to stop from dropping 300hz to 60hz when you unplug you have to check for settings on that, visit the laptop manufacturing website, and look for the PDF manual for your laptop, if you kept the manual for your laptop, then look in it and see if there option to stop it from auto changing your Hz. Or can contact your laptop manufacturing support how to do it.

[Agensy]

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[wuddih]

changing of the refresh rate should not be any problem these days. we even have tech that does this dynamically, aka freesync/gync and other variable refresh rate implementations.

but i am pretty sure the brightness setting of the display has more impact on battery than the refresh rate.

[Arigato]

thanks

[Satoru]

Originally posted by wuddih:

changing of the refresh rate should not be any problem these days. we even have tech that does this dynamically, aka freesync/gync and other variable refresh rate implementations.

but i am pretty sure the brightness setting of the display has more impact on battery than the refresh rate.

Well the refresh rate basically caps your FPS. As your battery life is going to be dramatically reduced if a game is pushing the GPU to render say 300Hz (like in say CSGO which is more CPU than GPU bound), the refresh rate being capped at 60Hz will help a lot of with battery life.

Most laptops cap the refresh rate when not in game to preserve battery life as well.

While brightness is a factor in battery life, anything that makes the GPU work harder is going to have much more dramatic impacts. Lowering the brightness to the lowest setting isn’t going to compensate for the power draw of the GPU rendering at 300Hz vs 60Hz. It’s also why high speed refresh rate phones have a lot of automatic tools to dynamically crank up or down the refresh rate

[мамут рахал]

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[Magnouver]

Thanks for all the answer. What i mean by this question actually is the process when it change the refresh rate from 300 to 60 (when the display got black) is it going to be a problem when im still in game (display is actually in use, lets say in the middle of csgo match)

But again thanks everyone for your answer. It helps

[🦜Cloud Boy🦜]

What kinds of laptop is it that supports 300 Hz refresh rate?
Must be a top quality $3000 laptop. I presume.