Fault symptom:
Games are the driving force behind hardware development. After the game's main board and game peripherals, display manufacturers have recently begun to attack the game field again, a series of game displays available. These game displays share a Hz update rate. Compared with traditional 60Hz displays, a higher update rate provides a smoother picture of the game.
Solution:
Two steps to start a great game Journey
After getting the Hz game display, do not rush into the game. You must first pay attention to the connection lines and make some necessary settings to ensure a smoother picture in the game.
Step 1: exquisite cables
The choice of Hz game display cables is a common topic. Generally, VGA, HDMI, and 18-pin DVI connections are used on mainstream monitors. Up to 1920x1080 @ 60Hz images can be output. If these connection lines are used, the maximum update rate of the display can be set to 60Hz. After vertical synchronization is enabled, the frame rate of the screen is still 60 fps. At present, only the DisplayPort connection line or 24-pin DVI connection line can ensure that the display speed reaches 144Hz.
To play 144Hz, you must use the DisplayPort connection line or 24-pin DVI connection line.
Step 2: simple settings
Do not connect a Hz game display to a PC. It is very likely that the PC will output a 60Hz image. In this way, you can only set a 60Hz update rate in the game, which is not a superb gaming experience. The specific setting method is that the N-card user opens the NVIDIA control panel, and then sets the update rate under the 1920 × 1080 resolution of the PC project to 144Hz in the change resolution project. Card a users are in the AMD Catalyst Control Center desktop properties, set the update rate to 144Hz.
Set the renewal rate of N cards
Card a refresh rate setting
Although the experience is good, game support is required.
Cool Play platform
CPU: Intel Core i7 4770 K
Memory: Kingston DDR3 1600 4 GB x 2
Hard disk: Sandy Extreme Pro 480 GB
Motherboard: gigabyte G1.Sniper Z97
Graphics: Asus STRIKER-GTX760-P-4GD5
Asus POSEIDON-GTX780-P-3GD5.
Monitor: Philips 272G5DJEB
The picture is smoother and the experience is indeed better
So how different gaming experiences can a Hz Display bring? On the test platform, I first played a game experience in the popular League of Legends and World of Warcraft. In League of Legends, after vertical synchronization is enabled, the frame speed of the game is stable at 144fps. As an old player, I can clearly feel that when making up a knife and other more challenging micro-operations, including the subtle movement of the mouse pointer and the movements of characters in the game, it is smoother in the 144fps image. Even after entering the grass, we can see that the slight changes in the grass are more natural. It is said that some players can see the enemy jump out of the grass earlier on the Hz display, and I have not seen this point at all.
In the display with different update rates, the frame rate after the vertical synchronization is enabled in League of Legends
Next is World of Warcraft. On the 144Hz display, after vertical synchronization is enabled, the frame speed of the game is stable at fps. During the Battle of the flag, the image turns smoothly at a high speed. Xiao Bian thinks that the most obvious change is the significant improvement in the expressiveness of the scene. The transition of light and shade in the scene and the dancing of snowflakes are more natural.
Frame rate comparison after vertical synchronization in World of Warcraft with different update rates
Large differences in game support
During the game test, we can see that on the 144Hz display, the frame speed of hero alliance is stable at around 144fps, while the frame speed of World of Warcraft is only 100fps. Is there a problem that some games have poor support for the Hz refresh rate?
To find out, I chose several popular games: Street overlord 4, biochemical Crisis 5, Lost Planet 2, dog, and returning to the German headquarters: new Order, etc., respectively on the Hz Display experience one by one. Each game is set to 1920x1080 resolution and low quality to ensure a stable frame rate of 760 FPS. The video card is Asus GTX.
As shown in the table above, most games have good support for the Hz display because the maximum frame rate is not locked. Street overlord 4, biochemical Crisis 5, Lost Planet 2, and League of Legends can achieve a stable frame rate of FPS, and even a slightly poor World of Warcraft has fps. In contrast, the "dog" and "return to German Headquarters: New Order" games are locked at a frame rate of 60 fps, A higher refresh rate does not have a significant impact on the game.
From this test, we can see that the 144Hz display requires game support. If a game with a frame rate of 60 FPS is locked, the advantage of the 144Hz display is hard to exert.
144Hz, invisible killer of graphics cards
Does the 144Hz display have higher performance requirements for graphics cards? Yes, of course. Although the resolution of mainstream 1920Hz displays is 1080 ×, the performance requirement is also greatly improved as the resolution surge in 4 K displays does, but it is necessary to experience smoother pictures, the frame rate increases from 60fps to 144fps quickly, and it still puts forward higher requirements on the performance of the video card, which is called the invisible killer of the video card.
