Det drivers not giving full refresh in games

[ThC 129 0]

Ive had this problem since the...uhh i dunno maybe 8 series of dets. I run nvrefresh and it sets my refresh rate to the max supported but when i go in games its only around 85. Anyone else get this??

[Xiven 0]

Yes: http://www.ntcompatible.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=15168

 

Happens in 2k and XP with det drivers above 6.50 on certain monitors.

[ThC 129 0]

hmm i guess i will try powerstrip then, even though i dont like that program.

[Four and Twenty 0]

why not just mod the inf file in the det drivers and delete the frequencies that u don't want.

[Four and Twenty 0]

Edit the .INF file of your TNT/TNT2/GeForce drivers (AFAIK it only works with the NVidia reference drivers

(this includes all the misc Win2k drivers from NVidia themselves, Asus, AOpen, etc.), it might not work with

any Creative or Diamond custom drivers).

 

Look at the end of the file, all the different card types supported by that driver are listed there under

the section "[strings]". What you need to know is the codename of the card, i.e. "NV4" for TNT1, "NV5" for

TNT2, "NV10" for "GeForce" and so on.

 

Assuming you have a TNT2 (="NV5"), search for a rather large block of lines looking like this (note the

"NV5_Modes" string which indicates that these settings are for the NV5 cards):

 

 

code:

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HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 640 480 60 70 72 75 85 100 120 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 320 200 60 70 72 75 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 320 240 60 70 72 75 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 400 300 60 70 72 75 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 480 360 60 70 72 75 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 512 384 60 70 72 75 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 640 400 100 120 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 800 600 100 120 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 1024 768 100 120 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 1152 864 100 120 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 1280 960 85 100 120 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 1280 1024 60 70 72 75 85 100 120 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 1600 1200 60 70 72 75 85 100 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 1920 1080 60 70 72 75 85 100 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 1920 1200 60 70 72 75 85 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 1920 1440 60 70 72 75 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 2048 1536 60 0"

 

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This has already been edited by me. As you can see, you need to overwrite the undesired refresh rates

("60 70 72 75 85" in my case) with spaces, so the desired refresh rate at a specific screen resolution

is the lowest refresh rate number in the according line.

 

Here, I've deleted all rates below 100Hz for 640x400, 800x600, 1024x768 and 1152x864, and all rates below

85Hz for 1280x1024.

 

Note: there are multiple blocks of lines for different color depths: 8, 16 and 32. Listed above are only

the 16bpp modes. You should do this for all three color depths.

 

Then reinstall the driver with the new .INF file. This should solve the OpenGL refresh rate problem.

 

If you need higher refresh rates for DirectDraw/Direct3D games, run the DirectX Diagnostic Tool

(DXDIAG.EXE) and switch to the last tab ("More Help"), click the "Override..." button and enter the

desired refresh rate. I'm using 100 here, too.

 

This should solve the DirectDraw/Direct3D refresh rate problem.

[Four and Twenty 0]

note that the spacing didn't line up in the last post so if u are editing the inf it is kind of a bad example. but basically u need to replace and refresh rates u want with spaces. It is very important that the remaining refresh rates are lined up as they were when u started