Way to manually set the refresh rate in RTW?

[gregab25]

Does anyone know a way to manually set the refresh rate to a specific value in RTW?

All is see in the pref file is Safe_Refresh.

Thanks.

[JeromeGrasdyke]

You should be able to do this through your graphics card drivers - the NVidia drivers allow you to set an override refresh rate per screen res, for one.

[Red Harvest]

One thing I recommend for any vid card, is to manually set refresh rates for every resolution and color depth (takes a few minutes.) Windows does a poor job of picking refresh rates for some apps when left at "default" or "optimal." If you set and accept refresh rates for each resolution *and* color depth, then Windows *should* pick this up while in the application even when the application does its resolution switching. If your monitor shows you resolution and refresh rates (or even the scan frequency if refresh is not given) you can figure out what is happening. Sometimes Windows says one thing...and the monitor is doing another...

This is really a common problem in some old very simple games like my kids' educational software. They might try to come up in 640x480 or 800x600 with 50 Hz or 200 Hz rates--neither of which seem to work all that well in my experience. Sometimes this will display as an overlapping band, or with massive interlaced flicker, etc. I've had this in the menus of European Air War and some other older games too on multiple monitor and vid card combos...but finally figured out that it was a refresh problem. An irritation is that I usually have to repeat this chore everytime I install new drivers.

Very high refresh rates are less of a problem than 60 Hz and below, but they have their own problems. One thing that seems common when you start getting well north of 100 Hz is that even if the monitor and card both support 200 Hz, they might begin having some syncronization issues at the very high refresh rates. Left to its own devices Windows will often default to the very highest allowable.