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Article #191495LCD's suck
From: Folk
Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:45
Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:45
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I reinstalled UT99 the other day. Downloaded Chris Dohnal's OGL renderer, turned on vsync and tried her out for a bit. The last time I tried installing UT99 on this rig I couldn't get the gamespeed right, but then I read here the other day about the CPU switch in the shortcut (forgot about that the first time... heh; old age sucks) so I used that this time and the gamespeed seemed right. But even though the gamespeed was right the gameplay wasn't smooth at all. I was playing against bots at Adept and they were mopping the floor with me. It was as if they were on top of me before I could react. I fooled around with it for a while and then realized that the LCD had me locked in at 60fps. I tried turning off vsync but that made the game run too fast again. I then tried using the framerate-limiting switch in the .ini and that got me to 100fps with vsync off, but gameplay still wasn't smooth. Then I dragged my system downstairs to my office where I still have my trusty old Hitachi Superscan CRT and lo and behold the gameplay was as smooth as silk with vsync turned on. So, is there a cure for this? I'm not going back to a CRT. For one thing you can't even find a new CRT these days and besides a 21" model weighs a freaking metric ton and on top of that I'm spoiled with the lightweight, reflection-free goodness of an LCD monitor. Is there a way to get smooth 100fps gaming on an LCD? All my research says "no". :(
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