If you want to minimize motion blur AND minimize stutters AND maximize smoothness, you need to turn on VSYNC on - but then that introduces input lag (bad for competitive gameplay). older Source Engine games with a powerful GPU). It's amazing how judders look different between max_fps 250 and max_fps 600, if your GPU is powerful enough to go faster than 250 (e.g. You really want a much higher maxfps if possible to help make the frametimes more consistent and avoid harmonics between Hz versus framerate. For example, maxfps=241 shows up as a beat frequency of 1 judder per second at 120Hz, if I'm successfully running at 241fps, if you look at fast-panning motion carefully. Your human eye really can't tell it apart but you can definitely easily tell the beat-frequency harmonic. So LightBoost is very demanding on stutter management - if your graphics card can cap out at 250fps, then maxfps 250 looked juddery for me (it generates an ugly 10Hz beat frequency harmonic 120+120 with 10fps remaining) maxfps 600 looked better for me on a powerful graphics card in older games if you wanted to turn off VSYNC. The very slight non-objectionable motion blur of 144 Hz helps masks the microstutters, and makes it look smoother. It's the same reason why 30fps-vs-60fps is easier to see apart, than it is on LCD.
LightBoost makes each frame so sharp that it is very easy to see microstutters. I've found LightBoost starts to look smooth again, if you got the GPU horsepower. But that's only good for solo gameplay.įor VSYNC gameplay, uncap your framerate - allow it to reach 600. I noticed if you turn on VSYNC, LightBoost is much smoother than 144 Hz. Share your experiences, tips and tricks! Any input is greatly appreciated.
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Have any of you played around with the other display/picture modes, "gamer" presets or features? Do you use the no-motion-blur lightboost tweak that has been floating around lately? (ATI here, so I can't.)Īnd for you, who like me, run it at 144hz in windows (why not, right?), what r_displayrefresh and com_maxfps do you run with? I'm using displayrefresh 0 and maxfps 125 at the moment, but at 144hz in win I'm not certain it's optimal. AMA definitely works best at the high setting. I thought I'd get a thread going where we could share experiences and tweaks for this monitor.Ĭurrently I'm using the settings suggested here: īrightness= 28 (according to preferences and lighting – this is still rather bright)īrightness is the only thing I've changed back and forth a bit, can't really decide. I went from a 60hz LCD, so the transition was quite something. Got this monitor a few weeks back, and I'm very happy with it so far.