ATI still in the pixel hunt business...

[Thomas A. Horsley]

I thought control panels were supposed to be useful .

After years of sticking with old drivers because they worked, finally
encountered an app that had a problem, so decided to give latest drivers a
try.

I had painfully discovered the hidden secrets of the old control panel, the
fluff that looks like decorative scrollwork but is really a button you have
to press to dive down into the monitor settings and force it to believe that
the monitor can support an 85HZ refresh rate.

Now they have a completely rewritten control center, but they managed to make
it equally (or maybe even more) difficult to force a refresh rate setting.

Searching for "refresh" in the help file gives you lots of hits that
describe forcing the refresh rate, but just like the old control panel, they
don't actually work. You can tell it to "force" the rate to be 85HZ, but
until you find the magic monitor setting, it remains oblivious (leading me
to wonder if the ATI programmers ever looked up the meaning of the verb "to
force" in a dictionary .

What is it that ATI has against letting you set the $#@! refresh rate
properly? Maybe they are so into ATI as a gaming platform that they
figure the control center should be like a game...
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[Danny Greaves]

I thought control panels were supposed to be useful .

After years of sticking with old drivers because they worked, finally
encountered an app that had a problem, so decided to give latest drivers a
try.

I had painfully discovered the hidden secrets of the old control panel, the
fluff that looks like decorative scrollwork but is really a button you have
to press to dive down into the monitor settings and force it to believe that
the monitor can support an 85HZ refresh rate.

Now they have a completely rewritten control center, but they managed to make
it equally (or maybe even more) difficult to force a refresh rate setting.

Searching for "refresh" in the help file gives you lots of hits that
describe forcing the refresh rate, but just like the old control panel, they
don't actually work. You can tell it to "force" the rate to be 85HZ, but
until you find the magic monitor setting, it remains oblivious (leading me
to wonder if the ATI programmers ever looked up the meaning of the verb "to
force" in a dictionary .

What is it that ATI has against letting you set the $#@! refresh rate
properly? Maybe they are so into ATI as a gaming platform that they
figure the control center should be like a game...
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That is the "maximum refresh" setting. Thank god it don't lock it.


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[Flow]

That is the "maximum refresh" setting. Thank god it don't lock it.


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Nvidia has that same problem.It's windows related.
Actually most refresrate fix programs do work.I find the simplest to use is
reforce.exe
Ofcourse your monitor needs to support the frequencies you input.
Comming from nvidia i decided not to use the build in fix from ati,and i
have zero problems with the refreshrates.
Ow,and make sure you don't have multiple driver references in your registry
for the monitor,another ms faul up since every new driver update it writes a
new one for the monitor confusing the refreh proggies in which one to use.