Adjust Your Monitor’s Refresh Rate
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Poor display on your monitor can be the result of a driver problem or incorrect resolution settings. If the display problem still persists after adjusting the resolution, your next step should be to adjust the refresh rate. Lower refresh rates tend to cause flickering so it is important to verify this setting.
You can adjust the refresh rate using the Settings tab from the Display Properties dialog box. Once again, select the Settings tab and click the Advanced button. Select the Monitor tab. Use the drop down arrow to adjust the refresh rate to about 70 MHZ. Remember that a higher refresh rate will reduce the amount of flickering. As with the screen resolution, if you are unable to select the desired refresh rate, go back to the video driver to make sure the latest one is installed.
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4 Comments
Andrew M.
June 1st, 2007
at 9:58am
First of all, LCD monitors don’t flicker like older CRT monitors do, so there’s little need for adjusting the refresh rate of an LCD monitor above the usual default setting of 60 Hz. Secondly, the suggestion “Use the drop down arrow to adjust the refresh rate to about 70 MHZ” must be a typo. She means 70Hz, not 70MHz !
Mircea D
August 28th, 2007
at 11:33am
I want to know how to change game’s refresh rate to 60HZ so I can play then on my LCD screen.
wes
November 30th, 2008
at 3:20pm
i tried to set it to 85 Hz before i read this and it had to restart the computer but then when i tried to turn it on then i got a message saying that the refresh rate is out of range and now i cant get onto my computer to set it to default. how do i do this?
shawn
August 16th, 2009
at 7:50am
first of all common sense tells you to check what your monitor supports before cranking it up to 85 hz! you may have rendered your monitor unusable wes most consumer level monitors are not designed to go higher than 75 hz