DOOM 3 Problems

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Hi there for some reason unlike everyother game Iv got Doom 3 insists on running at 60hz refresh rate and its doing my head in. Anyone know how to force it to run at a higher refresh rate. The windows options for setting the hz doesn't seem to affect it.

[Tai Sen]

not sure how but Doom 3 is a pretty hard game to run. to run it really well u need a good video card. besides, 60 refresh rate is fine.

[Calum]

You may be taking about the fps, not refresh rate.
Doom 3 is capped at 60fps, you cannot get it to run any higher.
60fps is about the max anyone can see anyway, higher fps would not be noticeable.
Increase the detail levels if you want, you'll have a better experience.

[Neil]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooo

He's talking about refresh rate not fps! Refresh rate has nothing to do with how good the graphics card is. And 60Hz gives intollerable flicker on most CRT monitors.

Jonnos, sometimes you need to do this. Go to the exact resolution and colour-depth on your desktop as you use in the game. Now try changing the refresh rate. If your desktop is different to the game, Windows might not remember it.

What card are you using? If you look in its options it might have an ability to force overide the refresh rate.

[Calum]

Just a thought, it did sound like it might be fps.
I don't see how you can tell that a game is at a certain refresh rate.
And I've always used 60Hz refresh rate on my CRTs, I don't see any difference.
Maybe it's just me.
Certainly the actual graphics card involved would be useful, I know for ATI cards there is an option to lock the refresh rate which may be involved here.
Or I could be barking up the wrong tree.

[Neil]

Your monitor can tell you the refresh rate with the on-screen options display. And I guess either you have a high quality monitor, insesitive eyes, or you've simply got used to it from usage.

[Tai Sen]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

He's talking about refresh rate not fps! Refresh rate has nothing to do with how good the graphics card is. And 60Hz gives intollerable flicker on most CRT monitors.

Jonnos, sometimes you need to do this. Go to the exact resolution and colour-depth on your desktop as you use in the game. Now try changing the refresh rate. If your desktop is different to the game, Windows might not remember it.

What card are you using? If you look in its options it might have an ability to force overide the refresh rate.

my bad. i thought it was something else. sorry!

[Calum]

Your monitor can tell you the refresh rate with the on-screen options display. And I guess either you have a high quality monitor, insesitive eyes, or you've simply got used to it from usage.

Probably the second two, the monitors have only been at 60Hz because they wouldn't go any higher.
And I've never seen the refresh rate shown on screen.
I know you can change it, but I don't see how I would be able to tell it was at 60Hz in one game and 70 in another.

[Neil]

If you've been using LCDs a long while, believe me, you can tell

[Calum]

I thought we were talking about CRTs?
Refresh rate on an LCD makes no difference AFAIK.

[Neil]

I meant, if you've been using LCD which do not have screen flicker for a while, and got used to it, then use a CRT monitor with very bad screen flicker, you will notice the low refresh rate.

[Calum]

I guess I just don't notice it because I use both at the same time then.