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My brother has a 240hz monitor so I decided to play around with some CS on it on different refresh rates to see if I could notice any difference. And yeah, back to back 144hz to 240hz you notice *something* but it’s really hard to say I can make use of that extra information and every step above 140hz is really hard to notice any difference at all. It’s only barely noticeable when you jump from 140hz to 240hz in one step. In fact even after 90hz taking 10hz steps it already doesn’t feel like a big improvement after 90hz and it rapidly becomes less noticeable after 100hz.
I think I might slap someone if I ever hear them say anything under 240 is unplayable. And I just know someone will find their way to this comment to argue why that’s not a ridiculous thing to say with some sort of special scenario.
The only special scenario I can think of is playing a game at 144hz while using a monitor thats 240hz. Going from playing 280hz on my monitor to 144hz makes games visually stutter to a noticeable degree that makes games frustrating to play when you’re used to the super ultra^tm smooth feel of 240hz. Even in that case, which I am familiar with, I wouldn’t go as far to say that anything is unplayable, just noticeably more visually frustrating than usual.
Going from playing a given game on a 240hz display, to a 144hz display does have a noticeable difference however not anywhere near significant enough that its unplayable. I could imagine even pro FPS players being able to tolerate it despite possibly taking a hit in their performance. Point being I completely agree its stupid to suggest its unplayable though the special scenario, in my case, I could imagine is what most people are experiencing when they say its unplayable (I hope lol); even then I wouldn’t really agree.
It’s very possible your brother’s 240Hz monitor isn’t particularly good. Just because a display can refresh at a certain number, it doesn’t actually mean that it’s better than a display that might have a lower refresh rate, but has faster pixel response, etc.
A 144Hz OLED for example, will be significantly better than a much higher refresh rate LCD, because OLEDs have pixel responses that are sub 0.1ms. This is more than an order of magnitude faster than the fastest LCD monitor.
My brother has a 240hz monitor so I decided to play around with some CS on it on different refresh rates to see if I could notice any difference. And yeah, back to back 144hz to 240hz you notice *something* but it’s really hard to say I can make use of that extra information and every step above 140hz is really hard to notice any difference at all. It’s only barely noticeable when you jump from 140hz to 240hz in one step. In fact even after 90hz taking 10hz steps it already doesn’t feel like a big improvement after 90hz and it rapidly becomes less noticeable after 100hz.
I think I might slap someone if I ever hear them say anything under 240 is unplayable. And I just know someone will find their way to this comment to argue why that’s not a ridiculous thing to say with some sort of special scenario.
I have a functional neurological disorder and will have a seizure if subjected to a screen that is under 240hz.
The only special scenario I can think of is playing a game at 144hz while using a monitor thats 240hz. Going from playing 280hz on my monitor to 144hz makes games visually stutter to a noticeable degree that makes games frustrating to play when you’re used to the super ultra^tm smooth feel of 240hz. Even in that case, which I am familiar with, I wouldn’t go as far to say that anything is unplayable, just noticeably more visually frustrating than usual.
Going from playing a given game on a 240hz display, to a 144hz display does have a noticeable difference however not anywhere near significant enough that its unplayable. I could imagine even pro FPS players being able to tolerate it despite possibly taking a hit in their performance. Point being I completely agree its stupid to suggest its unplayable though the special scenario, in my case, I could imagine is what most people are experiencing when they say its unplayable (I hope lol); even then I wouldn’t really agree.
90 is definitely some kind of threshold where i notice the performance is dropping, as long as an fps is like 95low im happy with the performance
It’s very possible your brother’s 240Hz monitor isn’t particularly good. Just because a display can refresh at a certain number, it doesn’t actually mean that it’s better than a display that might have a lower refresh rate, but has faster pixel response, etc.
A 144Hz OLED for example, will be significantly better than a much higher refresh rate LCD, because OLEDs have pixel responses that are sub 0.1ms. This is more than an order of magnitude faster than the fastest LCD monitor.