CRT, resolution, refreshrate & Enemy Territory

Almost since the beginning of my "ET-career" (:D) I have wanted to learn aim better with smg and pistol. I browsed some pr0 aiming tutorials and I noticed that they keeped mentioning the importance of high refreshrate of your monitor. I was using tft back then and I couldn't get more than 75hz out of it and nonetheless, I learned that flat screens are suckage for fps-games... Fortunately we are rich and we have many computers in home so I stole the CRT-monitor from one of them. I was a little disappointed because it could only do 85hz in 800x600 & 1024x768. I cried about the issue to Jamzz1 and he told me about a little program called Powerstrip, which you could use to tweak your resolution, refreshrate etc. Also adding custom resolutions to your Windows is possible.

http://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/ps.shtm

Changing refreshrate with Powerstrip

Download Powerstrip from the link above. After installing it and rebooting, there should be a Powerstrip-icon in your taskbar 1. Click it and choose Display Profiles 2 -> Configure 3.



Now choose the wished resolution 4 which you want to run with different refreshrate. After that, click Advanced timing options 5. In my example I lower my refreshrate in r_mode 6 (1024x768) from 85hz to 75hz.



If you chose different resolution than what you are using currently, Powerstrip will ask do you want to change to selected resolution. Click Selected. In my case I use the same reso so I just click Current6.

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And here we are. Xd From 7 & 8 you can still change the resolution, but that's not what we are here for. Same goes for Custom resolutions (10)From Refresh rate you can change your refreshrate (sounds logical) [/b]9[/b]



I change my refreshrate from 85hz to 75hz. Then just Apply 11. Your monitor goes black now if you set your refreshrate too high. Wait 15 secs or press backspace to go back to old refreshrate. Hotkeys seem to depend on Powerstrip-version, I use 3.7.



If everything goes ok, you have new refreshrate now! 12. You can also save it as a profile.



My CRT's factory settings maximum is 85hz, but with Powerstrip I could get out 150hz @ 600x400. :P Of course it doesn't make sense to use that reso (not 4:3) or so high refreshrate. Almost every CRT made after year 2000 should be capable of 120hz @ 640x480.

Keep in mind that higher refreshrate kills your monitor much more quickier... Mine does weird sounds for 20 seconds after shutdown. o.O

Adding new resolution with Powerstrip

I tried Perforator's config once but I couldn't get it work properly because my drivers didn't support r_mode 5 (960x720). With Powerstrip you can add new custom resolutions which your graphic card doesn't recognize.

Go to Display profiles. Instead of changing resolution, click Advanced timing options 1.



From there click Custom resolutions 2.



Now Im adding the earlier mentioned 960x720 resolution 3. You can also add the wished refreshrate 4. After this click Add new resolution 5. Powerstrip will add new resolution your drivers and after that it will attempt to change to wished resolution.



And taddadadadaaaa, here it is! r_mode 5!

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/9572/xdddddrx8.png

NOTICE: Some Powerstrip-versions will randomly crash your PC if you have 3D-applications running at the same time with it, LIKE ET!!! But no problem, just shut Powerstrip after starting ET. Newest version of Powerstrip, 3.7, haven't crashed my PC at all even I have some times forgot it running in the background. Im pretty sure they have fixed the crash-prob with the newest version, so I recommend downloading it.


If you have any questions, you can contact me @ #st0ners or #NewFoundPower.