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[–] psy-q [S] ago  (edited ago)

So I guess Compton would lock your refresh at 120 Hz on a 120 Hz monitor, and that should look baby-arse-smooth? What hapens if your graphics card can't supply 120 fps, I wonder, would Compton duplicate frames to fill up? Would be cool to find out!

Edit: I just wanted to say "well, I've never seen a 120 Hz monitor" but hey, that's not true! Maybe 16 years ago or so all my monitors were ~120 Hz CRTs :D And on those, 60 Hz would be torture. But I don't know if that's because 60 Hz there means 60 half-frames painted with a scanning line vs. today's 60 full, progressive frames at 60 Hz. Hmm!

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[–] jjjj ago 

Well I never tried Compton, (at least not knowingly--my distro or the Nvidia driver seems to come with something that forces Vsync, because I don't get any screen tearing for desktop applications), but about the monitors: Mine is set to 144hz refresh rate and every action you make, like dragging a window, scrolling down on a page, wiggling the camera in a game, it's all much smoother than when I set the same monitor to 60hz refresh rate. Of course only if the graphics card can output enough frames per second, but that is possible most of the time. It's kinda like the feeling when you first bought an HD TV, and never thought your normal TV had a bad quality, but then only heavily noticed it when comparing the two.