Tell me the downsides to 144fps so I can feel better about being poor and having 60fps

tell me the downsides to 144fps so I can feel better about being poor and having 60fps

Because your eyes can only see 12 fps

ur cpu has to run twice as fast

your're favourite anime plays at 25fps

then why does time slow down when you get adrenaline pumping? is that your eyes becoming over clocked?

Because your eyes aren’t real.

essentially. it increases the clock rate of your brain. look up 'lentation'. you can learn to squeeze adrenalin at will.

more like your brain becomes overclocked

It's more expensive for the hardware required

there is no downsides if you can afford it

its kind of a pain in the ass to keep your 144hz setting between reboots (in ubuntu). You just apply the settings in the nvidia-settings window, then, just click apply in the displays settings window in the main ubuntu settings page. Otherwise, 144 is just way better than 60, I don't know how to make it sound worse than that.

Much higher cpu and gpu requirements and unless you're a 1337 haxx0r gaymer it's useless.

Stick to 60hz or oc your monitor to 75 if you really want that extra butter.

at this point it's an either/or sort of thing. Do you want high resolution (4k)? You've got 60 FPS or you're gonna spend a shitload. Do you want high framerate (144)? You've got 1080p from fucking 2008. Want both? Get ready to spend $2k or more.

>tfw 30fps

The more you invest in tech, especially video games, the worse your life currently is

It's awesome poorfag, my mouse cursor is so smooth and fluid, I can get shit done in half the time. Also my eyes don't get as strained, and I became the best man of Quake 240hz faggot.

There's a fuckload of vidja created by imbeciles which either is locked at 30/60FPS or goes crazy when you go above 60FPS (And Vsync doesn't solve the issue because it syncs to your monitor refresh rate).

Then again, I imagine I would have enjoyed Skyrim much less without the batshit insane physics stuff. The poltergeist appearances that no one pays attention to really suit its soulless NPCs well.

There are none user, join us. It's beautiful over here.

>and unless you're a 1337 haxx0r gaymer it's useless.
No, the effect on desktop usage is actually the biggest reason for using high framerates.
Switching to 144Hz makes you feel like the distance between you and your screen is shrinking. Everything feels so much more immediate, all the scrolling is smoother, it's something that makes you feel good subconsciously every time you use the computer.
It's similar to an SSD in how it simply adds joy to the experience of using a PC.

>something that makes you feel good subconsciously every time you use the computer.
>It's similar to an SSD in how it simply adds joy to the experience of using a PC.

almost choked on my raw cacao

144Hz is fucking amazing it is by far the most satisfying night and day improvement you can possibly make and there are literally no downsides unless you are a burger flipping poorfag or NEET

And SSD is obviously orders of magnitude better in that regard, but my point still stands.

I'm constantly optimizing my rig to be quieter, more reliable and more fun to use. If I need to wait a few seconds for an HDD to spin up, it's a bust. If I can't see text crisply while scrolling, it's also a bust.

eyes can only see 60fps

>Not enforcing your settings through xorg.conf settings

you can actually add nvidia-settings -l
to you .xinitrc file and it auto applies whatever previous settings you were using in nvidia-settings
this is 10 years ago that i last used this though so the flag letter may have changed since then

You have to actually get 144 fps to get most use out of it

it not 250fps

You always have to pay out of your ass for a top tier GPU to keep the FPS around 144.
Also what said.

That'd only affect your own local user account. A change to xorg.conf would affect everything, including the session manager (gdm, lightdm, etc).

Your favourite anime imported to europe plays at 25fps.
Actual animation framrate is 24

more like your brain becomes overcocked

It's not the economical sweet spot to enjoying casual games and video. Also, 60 and 30fps (video) won't fit into it evenly and will either tear or look awkward

Games locked at 60 will probably play very weird with 144hz displays.

It's not as amazing as people claim. I've had a bunch of 1440p/144Hz IPS monitors over the past couple of years, trying to find one that isn't a complete piece of trash, and whilst the extra smoothness is noticeable and nice, I've never had any problem going back to 60Hz. You stop noticing it either way after a few hours of using each.

all of the 144hz and up monitors have horrible qc issues unless they are horrid looking TN crap

you can always downclock the display to 120hz and have an application-specific setting to have vsync at half refresh rate

Lots of game have a hard framecap anyway.
Skyrim flips the fuck out at +60 fps, objects flying all over the place.

>downsides to 144fps
I see nothing wrong with a 144 Hz monitor or 144 fps gaming in principle.

In practice it's something I consider silly and overrated unless you're a very hard-core gamer and you're only using your computer for gaming.

Want more than 60 Hz? Sure, go buy a overpriced expensive 1080p *TN* panel that can do 144 Hz and enjoy those washed out colors and poor viewing angles and 1999-tier picture quality. I'd rather stick with VA or IPS at 60 Hz and enjoy higher resolutions and better colors and have the ability to use my monitor for things like pictures, movies and so on.

No downside? Tell me, have you compared the colors on your 144 Hz TN to a IPS monitor?

Yours, perhaps, but there's some studies that show the limit is closer to 200 Hz.

This, this this this. If "gaming" monitors were usable for more than gaming and had acceptable resolutions then it would be a different story.

As if anyone cares, my current setup is 27" 1440p VA, 28" 4k VA and 27" 1440p VA - all at 60 Hz.

>You stop noticing it either way after a few hours of using each.
Yeah, but the subconscious effect stays.

I have a 300€ BenQ. Thankfully I never actually bought a monitor stand-alone prior to it, so I wasn't capable of being disappointed with its lackluster image quality.
Now I have a Surface and can tell the difference, but the Surface tears when scrolling a document in portrait mode thanks to its 60Hz, so I'm also appreciating my 144Hz even more now.

Personally I don't notice the difference, but that's probably partially because I'm used to watching 24FPS anime on a 60Hz screen anyway, which is just as bad.

Really, I hope for 4k 480Hz in the next ten years. Pixel density high enough to create subtle colors that wouldn't have been possible beforehand and to destroy any notion of the stairs-effect, with a refresh rate so high that everything looks as smooth as reality.

then why not just buy 120hz monitor then

availability
For some weird reason, I keep seeing 144hz more often than 120hz

>tfw people don't know how framerates fucking work
jesus christ, anything above 60 fps is literally slomo
come on, people

>anything above 60fps is literally slomo
what did he mean by this?

How is the quality when you watch 1080p movie for example on 2k, is it worse than on native 1080p monitor? Can you recommend a nice monitor model?

My 10 year old eizo doesn't tear when scrolling, 60hz isn't the reason you get tearing on desktop, something else must be wrong. Also i never said 144hz isn't nice, the problem is all panels with it that aren't TN suffer with terrible issues and quality control and you pay top price too, fuck that shit.

Typo, he meant to say (((Shlomo))).

I have a question concerning 144hz monitors. Will all of them have the option to downclock to 100hz? I would like to have some compatibility with PAL content in addition to being able to watch movies and animus without having to resort to frame blending.

>My 10 year old eizo doesn't tear when scrolling, 60hz isn't the reason you get tearing on desktop, something else must be wrong.
I specifically said in portrait mode, on a Surface. When you scroll up and down on touch in portrait mode (Which would be horizontal scrolling on an ordinary setup), you can see how the right side refreshes before the left side, which causes a staccato-like tearing. Or a wobbling when you quickly change directions.
This kind of scrolling generally doesn't happen on a desktop.

And I agree with you that the state of 144Hz is far from perfect. My monitor has backlight bleeding all around and mediocre colors. It even started out with dead pixels, but those disappeared by themselves thankfully. I just said that I'd love me some 144Hz on tablets thanks to touch scrolling in portrait mode, and that I really hope that high refresh rates are here to stay.

The hardware required to reach 144 fps is considerably more expensive.

If you want a cheap 144hz you will have to settle for a TN panel, which is as bad as it gets.

If you have a secondary 60hz monitor and have your main set to 144hz it's gonna mess with hardware acceleration on your browser fucking up things like twitch and youtube.

Unless you're into FPS shooters it's just nice to look at and feels nice when playing, not really worth it for most games, most console ports are capped at 60.

2x60=

>If you have a secondary 60hz monitor and have your main set to 144hz it's gonna mess with hardware acceleration on your browser fucking up things like twitch and youtube.
Is that why I occasionally get green artefacts that take over my screen?

I don't remember getting that but you can try to set your main to 60hz and see if it helps, it kinda sucks having to do that but i watch a lot of video on my secondary so 144hz is for gaming only now, i kinda miss the smooth cursor.

Need a much more powerful rig that will cost a lot more.
I upgraded to a 144hz monitor and I'm now looking to buy a GTX 1080 because my poor little old R9 380X can't keep up, even with games at minimum.

1. cost a bit more
2. lower latency even if you can't render at 144fps... wait no
3. uhh, not a lot of benefit over ~120Hz, wait
4. PROFIT (not in your case, of course)

The only downside for me is that I can't play games at 60 Hz any more. It looks and feels like 30 does to you now.

So basically I'm forever stuck buying expensive monitors

Because the computational power needed to acheive 144fps would be better dedicated to getting a frame rate above 60.

you need to run games in Exlusive Fullscreen if you have multiple monitors, because Windows 10 lowers your gaymen monitor from 144hz to 60hz if you have a secondary monitor that is 60hz, which is a pain in the ass because alt+tabbing takes 5 seconds and your monitors flicker like crazy during the alt+tab process

>The hardware required to reach 144 fps is considerably more expensive.

nigga just lower some specific graphics details

MSAA is cancer, choose FXAA.
Ultra Shadows is cancer, choose Medium.
and so on

Because going from 144Hz to 60Hz sucks ass and it takes a while to get used to. 60Hz is legitimately not good enough for desktop usage, the minimum should be 75Hz.The best way to deal with games locked to 60 is to change the refresh rate to 120 and lock the game to 60. This way the mouse still feels smooth on the desktop at least.

Not really available except for the new 4k/120hz monitors coming out. It seems to go 60>75>144>165>100>120>240 when it comes to stuff you find new.

They should, it seems pretty standard now that all of them can hit 60, 100 and 120 ootb. Also you can create a custom resolution using CRu or your GPU drivers if you need a weird framerate. For example most DOS games are 70Hz or 35Hz, so you can lock your monitor at 70 or 140Hz and play them just fine.

I don't see how you will get 144 fps in ultra quality in anything relevant withot a 1080 ti or more

so double down on being poor not getting 144fps

even more with 4k

4k is exactly 4 x 1080p so I don't see how upscaling would be an issue. Regardless, I haven't actually noticed any loss in quality on either my 1440p's or my 4k when watching movies or musicvideos or anything that's 1080p. mpv or whatever player I use seems to scale that just fine.

This being said, I can't really give an accurate comparison because my 1440p's are AOC AHVA's and my 4k is a ASUS VA - and my old 1080ps they replaced were all TN panels. Everything, 720p, 1080p, whatever.. looks so much better but that's not because it's 1080p upscaled.

As for recommendations.. My 4k ASUS VP28UQU. It's a VA panel that's really good and the funniest part is that it's 370 EUR or $440 (just converted from 3600 SEK). This is almost exactly what I paid for each of my AOC 1440p's not that long ago so when I was looking to replace the last of the 1080p's in my triple monitor setup (3x1080p for years, even 2x1080p 720p a long time ago) I just went for it. And it turned out to be nice. I can't really recommend anything else because I don't have anything else and I don't recommend things I haven't tried over a period of time.

The downside is that I cum in my pants everytime I turn on the computer lol I guess that sucks, need to change underwear everytime...

actual animation framerate is 8 fps

145

You get zero advantages past 60 fps