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pest · 03-03-2003, 08:50 AM

Resetting your max refresh rate does nothing if your max does not bump the max set by the game, so tap, tap tap, everyone is just being polite. The point of upping a max fps is that when the frame rate dips, it doesnt dip below the 57 fps threshold of what the eye can actually notice. It has also been specutaled that when you remove the max fps threshold, you start to lag servers because your vid card is querying the server 2 to 3 times as much as is necessary, but many server cap the number of queries per second to counter this. If this is the case, you might be getting three hundred fps locally, but the server is only sending 100, so you see each frame 3 times. Monitor refresh rates do have to do with fps. They can only go as fast as they are disigned. 300 fps looks identical to 95 fps on a monitor with a refresh rate of 75. The advatage is that the 300 fps is less likley to spike below the 75 than the 95 is.

If your fps never goes below 75, then you should have no problems. John Carmack states that doom 3 will be set to run at 57-60 fps and claims that no one will be able to tell. I tend to believe his word over random people on the internet.

To answer the original question - Your hardware is holding you back. All three of the specs you listed could be improved on, and you would see in increase for each one you upgraded.

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pest is Offline Senior Member Posts: 2,828 Join Date: May 2002 Location: Buzzin around the dung pile...	03-03-2003, 08:50 AM Resetting your max refresh rate does nothing if your max does not bump the max set by the game, so tap, tap tap, everyone is just being polite. The point of upping a max fps is that when the frame rate dips, it doesnt dip below the 57 fps threshold of what the eye can actually notice. It has also been specutaled that when you remove the max fps threshold, you start to lag servers because your vid card is querying the server 2 to 3 times as much as is necessary, but many server cap the number of queries per second to counter this. If this is the case, you might be getting three hundred fps locally, but the server is only sending 100, so you see each frame 3 times. Monitor refresh rates do have to do with fps. They can only go as fast as they are disigned. 300 fps looks identical to 95 fps on a monitor with a refresh rate of 75. The advatage is that the 300 fps is less likley to spike below the 75 than the 95 is. If your fps never goes below 75, then you should have no problems. John Carmack states that doom 3 will be set to run at 57-60 fps and claims that no one will be able to tell. I tend to believe his word over random people on the internet. To answer the original question - Your hardware is holding you back. All three of the specs you listed could be improved on, and you would see in increase for each one you upgraded.