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skose
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Hello all,
I finally got rid of the ole CRT monitor. It's been replaced with a 16:10 20.1" LG LCD monitor. The monitor boasts a 2ms response time, but unfortunately it's maximum refresh rate is 60Hz at the native resolution.
When I play source, I'm perfectly satisfied with the framerates I get and the overall look of the game. However, I'm getting periodic 'lag' or frame rate drops. It doesn't seem to be at all related to my hardware, because I can be standing still looking at a wall or general scenery and the drops will still occur consistently. (When I say periodic, I mean just that
). I tried busting the resolution down (even though it looked shitty) just to see if a boost in refresh rate would help the problem. No luck. I also turned all my graphics / textures / shader / gfx effects to minimize card usage. No luck. I'm awaiting a DVI cable from newegg right now. Perhaps going digital input will help. As it is now, I'm running a VGA cable to a converter to plug into my nvidia 7600GTs dvi port (no vga slot on it)
Anyone have any ideas how I can troubleshoot this / what might be wrong? The only other game I've tried on my new monitor is the Bioshock demo. Although I have to turn settings to medium and run at a non-native resolution, I don't get any periodic bumps in my rate. I need consistency!
Thanks
I finally got rid of the ole CRT monitor. It's been replaced with a 16:10 20.1" LG LCD monitor. The monitor boasts a 2ms response time, but unfortunately it's maximum refresh rate is 60Hz at the native resolution.
When I play source, I'm perfectly satisfied with the framerates I get and the overall look of the game. However, I'm getting periodic 'lag' or frame rate drops. It doesn't seem to be at all related to my hardware, because I can be standing still looking at a wall or general scenery and the drops will still occur consistently. (When I say periodic, I mean just that
). I tried busting the resolution down (even though it looked shitty) just to see if a boost in refresh rate would help the problem. No luck. I also turned all my graphics / textures / shader / gfx effects to minimize card usage. No luck. I'm awaiting a DVI cable from newegg right now. Perhaps going digital input will help. As it is now, I'm running a VGA cable to a converter to plug into my nvidia 7600GTs dvi port (no vga slot on it)Anyone have any ideas how I can troubleshoot this / what might be wrong? The only other game I've tried on my new monitor is the Bioshock demo. Although I have to turn settings to medium and run at a non-native resolution, I don't get any periodic bumps in my rate. I need consistency!
Thanks
