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This is not a typo: The world's fastest gaming monitor may well be this ancient IIyama CRT unit, pushed [modded] to 700 Hz at a glorious 120p resolution (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I think they're mostly talking about regular video, in which case 60 is generally fine. Heck, 30 is usually fine. But I agree that in video games anything below 120 is downright painful

[–] BluesF 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I definitely don't play with anything near 120 and it doesn't bother me. I suppose it's something that once you start paying attention to you notice haha.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

When you regularly start playing at >120hz you definitely notice when stuff is playing at lower than 60hz

Like it sounds snobby but I can’t play stuff at lower than 100hz ish otherwise I somehow get motion sick from it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

You would honestly probably be fine after a short while with lower frame rates. Guaranteed you used to game at those slower frame/refresh rates and never knew better.

I absolutely agree there's still benefit to be had above 60, but 60 is still mostly fine. Unless I guess all you do is ultra competitive gaming where twitch reactions are necessary.

[–] Poem_for_your_sprog 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, you're just used to it.

[–] BluesF 1 points 3 months ago

And my wallet is no doubt thankfully for it. As long as my old GTX1660 keeps chugging on I'll keep gaming at ?Hz on my ????p monitor lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Depends on the human, there was an article many years ago from a proper science study, some peoples internal vision refresh brain clock speed doesn't get more info with the super higher refresh.

I can tell that 90 is smoother than 60 just slightly, but when it involves large motion across the screen like at the movie theatre my brain doesn't process the spots in between and I end up seeing static snapshots. it becomes nauseating, so for a scene I know will have a speedy side to side motion I end up looking down. And it is not the saccade phenomenon, because it happens even if I have a focal point on screen to not move my eyes of off.

[–] Poem_for_your_sprog 2 points 3 months ago

Yes this...panning shots at 24fps literally make me nauseous.