What type of monitor do you use?

[Genocidicbunny]

There are LCD's that run at 120Hz. I know you specifically need one for the nVidia 3D glasses thing, although im not sure on the technical aspects of why exactly.
Outside of some specialized applications though, you dont really need above 60hz on a LCD, you simply cannot tell the difference between 60hz and more on an LCD.

 

[lndm]

LCDs don't work like that.

I didn't think we were talking about LCDs. If I remember correctly, aimee said it was her mothers computer with the LCD, not hers.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I have a CRT. My mom's got the LCD.

 

[Zelig]

I didn't think we were talking about LCDs. If I remember correctly, aimee said it was her mothers computer with the LCD, not hers.

Oh, right.

In that case, unselect the "Hide modes this monitor cannot display", and select 85 Hz minimum. If 85 Hz doesn't work, lower the resolution.

That checkbox is seriously useless, my Sony beast can do 120+ Hz at a number of resolutions, but Windows tries to limit it to 60 Hz at half of them.

 

[damunzy]

More or less the same here. I now use a 21" Trinitron....although LCDs have been getting better. It would have to be pretty darn good though.

I bought a used Dell 21 incher for about 50 bucks about 3 years ago. It is still going strong, manufactured in 2000. I'd like to get x2 19 inch LCDs but just don't have the money....yet.

 

[lndm]

Yeah, it's conservative

@aimee: BTW, if you change to a high refresh rate and your screen garbles or blacks out, no problem. There is a dialogue box that asks you to confirm the new rate so lay off your keyboard so you don't accidentally confirm it. It will return to the old rate in a few seconds.

 

[lndm]

I bought a used Dell 21 incher for about 50 bucks about 3 years ago. It is still going strong, manufactured in 2000. I'd like to get x2 19 inch LCDs but just don't have the money....yet.

Yeah, multi screens are great for flight simming. Three's better

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

And I thought 17 inches was big for a monitor....

I don't have room for anything larger than this thing. LOL. Space is at a premium in small apartments.

 

[lndm]

IIRC, fifteen to twenty years ago, 90 percent of IBM computer monitors were 14 inches, not as much diversity as these days. Most of the other 10 percent were smaller.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

My mom says that the first computer she used, the Commodore 64, plugged into a T.V.

Strangely, she moved up to Windows 9x and seems to be permanently stuck in that stage. For example, she still looks for settings that were in Windows 98 but changed around in XP.

 

[Perfection]

It's pretty common, I'm like that with Vista.

You learn one OS and then things change.