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How to get the right HZ? #380

Closed Ejz85 closed 11 years ago

Ejz85 commented 11 years ago

One of the most asked questions now is how they can get the right HZ without using -freq. They seem to have problems with that. Some players have screens that can only have like 60HZ in the resolution they have in windows and 120HZ in 640 in CS. But now after the update they can only have 60HZ in 640.

So one suggestion would be, maybe you can add an option for that? Many games has that option so I dont see any problems with that.

I would say that this matter should be prioritized.

MaximilianKohler commented 11 years ago

duplicate of #45

I agree, there should be an option in the video settings tab.

specterSAN commented 11 years ago

There's an issue with the hz right now getting influenced by the hz on the desktop. So this is both a bug report and a play advice for the moment. I've been testing and noticed that even with -freq 75 I still have 60 hz in CS just because I have 60 hz on the desktop. When I set a smaller resolution with 75 hz on the desktop works like a charm.

dagla commented 11 years ago

I believe goldsrc games are still played by a lot of people on CRT monitors, so a setting to change the hz without 3rd party programs would be very useful. And of course for the 120hz modern LCD guys too.

PTReaLL commented 11 years ago

alfred bring back the -freq command its simple and practical

alfred-valve commented 11 years ago

-freq will no longer work, as we no longer do a mode change to your desktop (so that alt-tab and the like work nicely). For -freq to work we need to change your desktop resolution (and make alt-tab not work well and screw up icons on your desktop, and all the other downsides of a mode change). Have you tried changing your default desktop frequency to the one you desire?

Ejz85 commented 11 years ago

As I said. All monitors dont allow the same HZ in 1920x1080 resolution as for 640x480. So if you monitor only can have 60HZ in 1920x1080, then you are stuck with 60HZ in 640x480..

alfred-valve commented 11 years ago

dupe of #45

MasteRs-git commented 11 years ago

@Ejziponken You can create custom resolution, for example I am using 1920x1080 @ 75Hz, check for monitor freqency range and it should work with all resolutions in maximum frequency.