Question 1

1. Is Higher Refresh Rate Better?

Accepted Answer

When you are playing a game, and it could process at a high frame rate which can match a monitor of 120Hz or 240Hz, then you would get an astounding experience, and there would be much better sharpness in the moving images. You would get a better idea from this video.

If a system has a higher refresh rate, it would help to decrease the blur. Some people are able to see the difference between a system with 60Hz and 120Hz while some people are not able to make out the difference between 120Hz and 240Hz also.

This would depend a lot on what you are doing on the system. A gamer would be able to notice it very quickly because he would be able to see visuals being sharp while performing fast movements and the movement of the mouse wouldn’t feel very smooth. There would even be a bit of difference in scrolling down while web browsing, but you would not find any difference in watching videos online or answering emails.

Question 2

2. What is Screen Tearing?

Accepted Answer

If a person mismatches between frame rates and refresh rates then screen tearing might occur. Screen tearing happens when the video card sends frame rates that are remarkably higher than the refresh rates of the monitor. At this time, more frames are being rendered then the capacity of the monitor.

There would be some issues like half frames would be seen together on a screen, there would be a lot of difference between the two frames, and none of them would line up correctly with each other. Such kinds of problems which can be noticed by anyone.

If there is a game whose frame rates exceed 100 FPS and you are playing it on a 60Hz monitor, then you won’t get the full benefit of that game as it refreshes only 60 times per second. Due to this screen tearing would occur as it would not be able to handle the data that is fed to it. A 240Hz display can handle up to 240 frames per second, and all the games would run smoothly on it.

There are some frame syncing technologies like Freesync, G-Sync, and V-Sync which prevent screen tearing but they have their problems. V-Sync will lower the performance rate. G-Sync and Freesync require a specific combination of hardware and video card.

Question 3

3. Does Input Lag Really Matter?

Accepted Answer

The refresh rate of a monitor affects the input lag. A 60Hz display will have a visible lag above 16.67ms because that is the amount of time which it takes to refresh from one frame to the next. A 120Hz display will take half the time which is 8.33ms, and a 240Hz display would further decrease it to 4.16ms.

It is not actually required to decrease the lag from less than ten milliseconds for regular users and not even for gamers. But still, it would be needed for people who need a very smooth and fluent gaming experience and do not want to compromise at all.

Question 4

4. Can't change refresh rate in Windows 10?

Accepted Answer

The refresh rate is determined by your graphics card, not by Windows. If your graphics card can output at 144Hz, the driver communicates that to Windows which then displays that as a selection.

Question 5

5. How to get 144Hz on ASUS VG248QE Monitor?

Accepted Answer

ASUS VG248QE Monitor comes with 144Hz rapid refresh rate and 1ms response time which means that your display might already be on the 144Hz refresh rate. However if you are not getting the desired refresh rate then you can navigate to your home screen > Right Click on the home screen > Display settings > Advanced display settings > Refresh Rate. Here select the desired Refresh rate from the drop down.

Question 6

6. Why is there no option for 144Hz?

Accepted Answer

Your monitor might have refresh rate lesser than 144Hz or the graphics card on your system does not support 144Hz Refresh rate.

Author: Owen Smith

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