[SOLVED] Will lowering refresh rate down make games feel smoother?

[noahnoda]

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I have a 165 hz monitor but a game i play alot i rarely get over 100 fps on is turning my refrsh rate down to 100hz instead of 165hz make the game feel smoother especially since the game i play drops frames a lot

Link to monitor: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B076HZ7CZK/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Specs:
CPU: Ryzen 7 1800X
GPU: GTX 1080 Strix
Ram: 16gb

 

[Brian28]

165Hz is very high. It's nice if you can reach it, but it's not that much better than 100 Hz in human visual perception. Setting the refresh to something the game can actually hit consistently will be much better than trying to go as high as you can. Using VSync can also make it more consistently hit a certain rate. Having a different delay between frames is what causes the visual stutter. Even 60Hz might be better if some frames take 0.009 sec and others take 0.013 sec. In that example, a frame that requires 0.013s will be shown on two consecutive 100Hz frames, which is effectively 50Hz. Having the frame every 0.016s (60Hz) consistently will be visually smoother.
So, pick a number your game can reach consistently. (That may be 60, 100, 120, or higher, but it must be achievable by the game in question.)