GFX Card Limited By Monitor?

[Guest]

I have a GeForce2 GTS 64MB (Herculues 3d Prophet II 64 MB). I have noticed that my FPS in Counter-Strike(Half-Life) seems to be limited to the refresh rate of my monitor. If you are familiar with Half-Life, the console command net_graph shows FPS. Lets say I am playing in 1024x960, the max refresh rate of my monitor is 75Hz at that setting, so my FPS won't go above 75. However, If I go below that res. it jumps up to 99 (Counter-Strike never seems to go above 99 FPS). Any explanations, ideas?

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[Guest]

Turn off your vsync

You can do this in the your display menu

right click on desktop > properties > settings > advanced > GeForce tab (Should be named your chipset or something similar > advanced properties > OpenGl settings will have option right on the tab, Direct3D will have something to the manner of "more Direct3D" button. Set the vertical sync to always off.

This may do it

Also, last time I checked, I'm pretty sure theres a max FPS setting on the servers for Counter-strike, but I don't think thats it if you could increase your frame rate.

 

[Guest]

thanks a bunch now Getting 99 FPS at max resolution in counter-strike now. And ya Half-Life has a variable "fps_max #" to change max fps, won't go above 99 for some reason tho. Oh darn, ONLY 99 fps 😉

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[machow]

Who wants to play more than 75 fps anyway... 40fps is more than sufficient.

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[jollygrinch]

bragging rights. sure, i'm dead but my fps are higher. 🙂

--It's alive! It's alive!!!....What!? How hot did it get?...damn

 

[kurokaze]

not only that, but since your monitor is only refreshing at X Hz, you're not going to see all those of frames anyway!

 

[machow]

And your eyes won't be seeing blocky frame transitions when it refreshes more than 40fps.

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