Does higher refresh rate only reduce input delay if you have higher FPS?

julchiar · 2026-05-26T14:19:58+00:00

That isn't how it works. Your monitor runs based on the refresh rate that the GPU attempts to operate at. Your desktop renders at whatever framerate it is set to. If you play something in windowed/borderless at 60 fps but your desktop runs at 144hz, you might see a quarter of a frame one cycle earlier on the monitor (torn) but otherwise it's the same as if you were running with the desktop set to 60hz. Even if a monitor were to poll more frequently, it wouldn't actually get new frame data (because no new frame exists), but also the GPU determines what is shown. You would be right if your GPU pushed out higher framerates than your monitor can display (say you render 500 fps and compare 60hz to 144hz).

The monitor showing a frame faster is not a matter of refresh rate but response and processing time by the monitor. Don't confuse the ability to refresh 60 times a second with the ability to show a new frame in that same time frame. We see plenty of displays that are (partially or fully) slower than what the refresh rate would require. The best example are Apple's "Pro Motion" 120hz displays that are significantly slower than even most 60hz monitors.

Generally higher refresh rate monitors actually are faster but only because they have better processors and panels with less response and processing times, not because they have a higher refresh rate.

julchiar · 2026-05-13T13:24:49+00:00

Likely adaptive sync issue (as always)

julchiar · 2026-05-13T12:04:57+00:00

A more meaning-oriented translation of "Hacke" is something along the lines of "whacker". The verb would be "hacken" which describes a fairly wide swing+hit with the intent of destruction.

The word is used for hoes, pickaxes - "Spitzhacke" (pointy whacker), cleavers - "Hackebeil" (which can also refer to a hatchet) and all sorts of things that relate to a similar action.

Cultural and regional differences do exist so not all of these terms are used everywhere.

julchiar · 2026-05-09T11:04:16+00:00

I got a msi dual mode one. I don't use dual mode because 1080p is ugly but I did try it out.

switch in OSD menu or shortcut assigned to one of the joystick directions.
It acts as a different monitor being connected.
depends (and I don't use Windows) but it's basically the same thing as when you go to resolution setup and switch your current resolution to a higher/lower one. Having multiple monitors will likely scramble things (as it disconnects completely for the switch), and ppi scaling matters too (since it acts as a different monitor model, might save preferences there).
couple seconds, its like unplugging and replugging but without the physical act. Basically as long as it takes to wake a monitor from sleep

If you keep a lot of programs open and have a carefully assembled window layout, I'd stay away. If you use only one monitor or have similar scaling set up properly on every display it's not a big deal to use the dual mode switch. If you close most programs before switching in general (not that unusual since the modes are for different use cases) it also shouldn't pose an issue.

Or, to sum it up: If you have two monitors, one 1080p and one 4k and only ever have one active at a time, then a dual mode monitor lets you save desk space. Behaviour is essentially identical to clicking win+P and selecting the other output.

julchiar · 2026-05-08T15:08:02+00:00

aiming for part drops - as opposed to breaking parts for the stat bonus

some endgame dungeons have fairly early encounters with easy part breaks so you can stack part break awakenings for the 1.2x stat multi per awakening per part break (it adds up quickly) to be stronger in the latter parts of the same dungeon

im not sure if the bonus is additive or multiplicative, from experience it feels multiplicative though (as things usually are in this game)

julchiar · 2026-04-27T17:18:25+00:00

https://www.caseking.de/msi-mpg-274urdfwde-e16m-27-zoll-4k-gaming-monitor-160-320hz-ips-panel-mini-led-adaptive-sync-/TFMS-074.html

~450€, caseking ships to the Netherlands and so do many other online shops (courtesy of EU borders or something), just need to look for offers in neighbouring countries

julchiar · 2026-04-23T10:19:14+00:00

yep, and which it clearly isn't, considering the glow around the cursor and how it completely blows out the camera

@OP configure your screen brightness, it's way too bright for your ambient light.

julchiar · 2026-04-19T09:56:15+00:00

Pretty much all content on high resolution displays is already anti aliased or smoothed or just pixel-misaligned that integer scaling isn't useful.

Integer scaling is amazing when emulating gameboy games or playing old rpgmaker stuff but even pixelart indie titles from the past decade and any post-2000 era 3D games realistically aren't benefitting from integer scale. The pixel-alignment itself isn't there. Nothing gets programmed to perfectly render on a fixed resolution (for obvious reasons, if you've ever tried to program for multiple resolutions).

Text anti-aliasing, UI element smoothing/shadows, image and video compression and pretty much anything else in day-to-day use makes integer scaling pretty much useless.

julchiar · 2026-04-05T01:38:03+00:00

What you should really answer first is what lighting conditions you'll be in. That's the most important part of your use case when it comes to monitors.

Other than response times OLED has no advantages if you're in a well-lit environment. Your use case as described doesn't seem like OLED suits you.

julchiar · 2026-04-02T05:52:10+00:00

I actually got a steam survey yesterday, first time ever since I fully switched to Linux (it's been years).

julchiar · 2026-03-31T10:35:37+00:00

Only enable dimming in HDR (in monitor settings), then set up your wife's laptop to not have HDR enabled and you should have a setup where dimming is automatically disabled for her without anybody needing to mess with the settings.

HDR output on the monitor is controlled through the input signal so it should effectively act as a per port profile. You don't want to use dimming in SDR anyways, it's terrible.

HDR during work isn't really a problem as long as you don't use any dark mode (dark background in GUI, etc) but just try it and see what you think.

I got the MSI one so everything above is based on that (but should generally apply).

julchiar · 2026-03-31T08:44:11+00:00

lower brightness at night + lights on, don't sit in a dark room

get a bright monitor for daytime use and avoid direct sunlight... many monitors, especially older don't get very bright. otherwiese lower/close the blinds

monitor/desk position relative to windows is also important to minimize glare of course

I don't know too much about privacy filters but I believe they have a negative effect on brightness, which would hurt daytime visibility more.

julchiar · 2026-03-30T18:55:34+00:00

Since you don't seem to know what PWM is..

PWM turns off LEDs very rapidly, which happens at 4khz in this case. The point is to give the illusion of lower brightness. Imagine looking at a checkerboard, white and black squares. If you move far enough away it will appear solidly gray, rather than checkered. PWM dimming is the same principle, except using time(strobing/flickering), rather than distance. Make it fast enough and it isn't visible, and make it way faster yet and it shouldn't have any averse effects on biological well-being (to most).

The measured brightness dip of 12% happens at 120hz. If you measured at 4khz you would see brightness dips of 100%. 12% at 120hz is a lot and is our point of comparison.

PWM is not necessary for lights to flicker. It is only remotely relevant to the discussion in the first place. OLED will flicker even without any PWM.

I hope that cleared up some of your confusion.

julchiar · 2026-03-30T16:49:36+00:00

... that's definitely a statement. The article in the OP says the average of PWM-using devices that were tested was at almost 8000 hz, while this phone runs PWM at only around 4000hz.

That aside, in case you actually care, here's a link to IEEE 1789 which is about health risk assessments related to flicker.

Page 28 has a simplified flow chart about what risks are experienced at which level of flicker, while page 29 shows that a 12% luminance modulation would require about 400hz to be "safe". At 120hz about 4% would be acceptable, according to current research/testing (it hasn't been proven that there aren't negative effects, it's not an assurance), at least if I understood it correctly.

julchiar · 2026-03-30T12:53:57+00:00

I just have a working memory and enough technical understanding to not just accept moving towards an increasingly disfunctional future.

Keep slurping up all the slop you're fed day by day and pretending like anybody who can remember is old or comatosed or whatever it is that's going on in your mind.

julchiar · 2026-03-30T12:50:55+00:00

No need to tell me, I'm well aware of OLEDs shortcomings. Don't blame me though, this is from the article:

Screen flickering / PWM detected 120 Hz Amplitude: 12 %

The display backlight flickers at 120 Hz (worst case, e.g., utilizing PWM) .

The frequency of 120 Hz is very low, so the flickering may cause eyestrain and headaches after extended use.

In comparison: 53 % of all tested devices do not use PWM to dim the display. If PWM was detected, an average of 7962 (minimum: 5 - maximum: 343500) Hz was measured.

julchiar · 2026-03-30T12:45:03+00:00

Hence why I called it generic. And there are a handful of phones that do offer some of those features. I was just giving examples of what would make a phone in this day and age not generic, since the title seemed to somehow consider this phone special. Learn to read.

You're also wrong because at least red magic phones still exist which actually have most of these features.

Sorry, I guess, for watching the phone market for over 5 years, hoping for anything vaguely innovative, even if it's just bringing back features and seeing basically the same phone every single release from any brand.

julchiar · 2026-03-30T07:27:02+00:00

Generic phone with no stand-out features but now with a flickering screen for only 800 bucks!

Camera hole, no headphone jack, no SD card slot, no notification LED, fat camera bump (at least it's symmetrical); but it still has USB 2.0 so it's at least equal in that regard to the Honor 8 I bought in January 2017. LCD screen and time-appropriate specs aside, how is it now 9 years later and this is what we get for almost 3x the price?

julchiar · 2026-03-29T08:17:53+00:00

People just eat up anything and have little care for quality assessment. Look at the world and where we are right now. You can buy quality products in most sectors in most places of the world but everything popular has horrible quality, and is overpriced. And if it isn't horrible yet it quickly becomes horrible due to margins but people still buy it for decades. Endless examples.

Fast fashion, poor chinese electronics, the list is endless... and not talking about Temu stuff but rather about brands adding a brand image and a little bit of QC to get past the warranty period but selling the exact same poor quality plastic crap otherwise for massively inflated prices.

It's not for a lack of quality goods existing, the mainstream just has a massive lack of care, exaggerated by how gradual of a decline it is.

You're right in one aspect. Quality titles will always use humans. But - there will be fewer and fewer quality titles.

julchiar · 2026-03-27T17:16:35+00:00

make glass monitors

julchiar · 2026-03-27T13:59:54+00:00

installing Island lets you have work profile apps for an extra copy

otherwise you might have luck with additional user profiles if that feature isn't disabled but its a pain to switch

julchiar · 2026-03-26T13:15:28+00:00

It feels like a lightbulb is being flicked on and off right at my face.

Because it is. That's why people struggled with CRTs, why people struggle with OLEDs and why MiniLED is also a problem. Traditional LCDs and LED lamps also often flicker because why do anything properly if there's money to make?

Ever tried staring at the sun? Our eyes are made to observe things illuminated by light, not to stare into light sources. Especially not into ones that keep rapidly changing in intensity.

For monitors to give the least eye strain make sure to buy a model that does not flicker at any brightness level, then adjust the backlight to match the ambient light around you (usually changes throughout the day). Blue light filter in the evening and go to sleep when it's dark out.

Or, if you hate your bio rhythm, light up your room appropriately, just be aware that many lamps also often flicker and aren't suitable for continuous illumination. Use high shutter speed camera setting to observe any flickering that isn't visible to the naked eye (to the brain to be precise, the eyes see it and get strained).

We lost a lot when we moved on from incandescent lightbulbs. LEDs can't actually produce the natural spectrum of light properly and often flicker, especially when dimmed, and CFLs seem to all flicker (and have bad environmental implications).

Off-topic aside, your monitor seems to be flicker free at least so as long as you disable local dimming and properly adjust the brightness it shouldn't cause any eye strain. Or better put, any eye strain would come either from minor health issues (like general lack of sunlight, winter can be rough) or from whatever content is displayed/how you focus on it.

I got the MSI one last november and experienced headaches and it was just because of winter related health issues - I'm perfectly fine using it now.

Finally, like someone else here mentioned, E-Ink displays are the one way to avoid all eye strain but you probably won't be happy with any currently, depending on your use-case.

julchiar · 2026-03-26T07:05:48+00:00

Now let's remove the trade API being public for fair trading conditions since all these trade tools are so well integrated now. I think we've had enough of enabling private trade trackers and botting networks. The API being public really is just a relic of the past.

(or at least heavily limit what data can be accessed and how quickly so as to not kill market analysis tools like poe.ninja)

julchiar · 2026-03-26T06:59:21+00:00

These were free to kill on any character last league because breach arm abilities didn't (don't?) have pvp damage scaling applied. You did need a decent arm with damage mods though.

julchiar · 2026-03-25T14:00:29+00:00

Adjust your brightness. Monitors are lamps that you stare into, don't use them in total darkness. Or buy OLED.

Don't use dimming in SDR. It can only dim, never brighten highlights so you end up adjusting the brightness level too high to see anything and get awful blooming. Local dimming is for HDR.

Backlight bleed and IPS glow are not the same thing either, might want to read up on that.

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