Changing (reducing) a monitor's refresh rate?


  1. Posts : 165
    Windows 10 Pro 64bit Build 2004
       #1

    Changing (reducing) a monitor's refresh rate?


    Is it safe to change a monitor's default refresh rate - in other words force it to run at a slower refresh rate. Mine has a default of 59Hz and I want to run it at 30Hz. It appears that I can do this in the nVidia driver software but I do not want to risk damage to the monitor. I would want to run at this slower refresh rate for several hours at a time.
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  2. Posts : 430
    Win 10
       #2

    Its fine go for it , worst thing that will happen is youll get an "out of range " error , if thast happens it'll reset itself after 10 seconds , those errors only really pop up when you try to exceed the refresh rate so you should be good
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  3. Posts : 2,935
    Windows 10 Home x64
       #3

    To achieve that you should use VSYNC option with half refresh rate.

    I don't know why you want to do that but either case, you can get more finer control with a tool like nVidia Inspector (nVidia) or RadeonPro (AMD). Lots of options there, like frame cappers and such.
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  4. Posts : 430
    Win 10
       #4

    he doesnt need to use vsync or nvidia inspector
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