Question about runnin 60Hz on a 75Hz TFT

Hi, I know that most TFTs used to be 60Hz and that mode was pretty much standard on CRTs so if your game chose 60Hz as the refresh rate that would be pretty good. Well I keep seeing TFTs with a higher refresh rate now (and can only imagine that they may go higher). Do these newer ones still run 60Hz fine? Basically if I tell my game to use 60Hz it won't fail to set the display mode on a 75Hz TFT will it?

Thx for any advice.

My LCD/TFT supports 75hz and runs 60hz no problem here.

I think it'd be suicide to make a monitor that doesn't support 60hz anyhow, since that's the default hz Windows is set too.

All of the TFT's I've seen still support 60Hz.

some also do 70Hz or 75Hz, but not all -- especially the older ones often only do 60Hz. So... forcing 60Hz is probably safer than forcing 75Hz.

thx.

Especially notebook screens normally only support 60hz even the newest generation

GA, what I do is detect what hertz the monitor is currently set to at the desktop and set the bmax graphics hertz to it. If you don't set the graphics to the monitor hertz then you could get some choppy/flashing/jitter. Not everyone can see the hertz difference and I'm sure the usual negative-attitude, holier-than-thou, egomaniac people on this forum will disagree with me (the same few disagree with me on anything no matter what it is) and scream bloody murder, but some can notice it (me). Again, some people aren't able to notice and claim it doesn't make a difference, but I assure you it does.

I can't remember the exact commands but it's something like.

Pseudo-code:

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extern win32
   Function Blah()
end extern
wBPP = GetDesktopBPP(hWnd)
wHertz = GetDesktopHertz(hWind)
If bFullScreen then wMode = wBPP else wMode = 0
Graphics 800,600,wMode,wHertz

You get the idea.

Chroma: I do that too, I just forgot. Thanks for reminding me.