So, it’s a little known fact in all but the nichest gaming circles that CRT monitors have much faster response times than LCDs… I’ve bought into the crt hype recently and tracked down an old 1200x1024 monitor for more hd than not resolutions.
I preface this by saying I’m a trash dps (a tank main naturally) player. Like 30% accuracy on Cree kind of bad.
Getting 50-60% accuracy now.
Anyways, just thought some of you might find the benefits of crt interesting. I’m doing better on my 60hz crt than my 144hz LCD monitor
My Mcree accuracy jumped up anywhere from 20-25% every mach.
lol, what panel type you have on your 144hz? Some slow panel like old IPS and VA has very bad motion blur issues. But TN panel and newer fast IPS panel are really fast, you can even turn on the ULMB mode, which rapidly strobe the backlight to reduce motion blur even more.
90% sure its LCD. I can’t link the video, but there is good documentation on youtube as to how fast CRTS are.
TN, IPS, VA are all different variants of LCD. Yes, CRT is faster on paper. But TN and fast IPS are also fast enough that you barely notice any motion blur, you can also make LCD even faster, using options like ULMB and Overdrive in your monitor settings. Im playing on a TN panel 240hz with fast dverdrive settings, and I dont think CRT can come close to the smoothness Im getting.
Utter nonsense. Show me a CRT with a horizontal scan rate over 85. Next, show me a CRT monitor with an input standard that can connect to a video card that can generate 144 FPS on it.
The raw response time matters much, much more than the framerates, is my point.
Also, some Trinitrons had 180 hz. There is a reason fighting game players use CRTS.
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Are these circles the FGC and the shmup community? Cuz I kept my CRT around for years to play those kind of games 
Edit: I always got some weird looks when my friends saw my 90 degree flipped telly. They didn’t understand that Dodonpachi life 
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Yup! What sold me on crts was retro gaming. some of those old games where jumps were difficult and perfect timing was important were drastically easier on a crt. Made me a full convert.
Response time is only important up to a certain point. I bet you wont able to tell a 2ms and 1ms response time side by side. It also wont impact your accuracy that much. However, going from 60hz to 144hz, and 144hz to 240hz and even 240hz to 360hz all have very noticble improvements as long as your PC can push your fps to that level. Even pro players have no issues with motion blur on newer generations of tn and IPS panels.
I’m just looking at the numbers, man. My stats are going through the roof rn since I got it a few days ago. 60hz on teh crt is noticably better than 144 on lcd.
Your stats change is mostly likely caused by your sensitivity change, not display change. Since your resulotion changed between LCD and CRT, it will affect your in game mouse sensitivity too. Trust me, my accuracy difference is less than 10% on a crappy 60hz laptop and my 240hz desktop PC.
Sounds like a “win streak.” Come back in a month and tell us if you’re still at a substantially higher SR.
When I went from 60 to 144 FPS, it made it easier to aim on hitscan heroes, but it didn’t really impact my overall rank. What impacted my rank more than anything was learning more heroes, among other things that I actively practiced.
Analog vs Digital signals are insanely interesting. There is an argument for old PS/2 ports vs USB standards because the PS/2 ports have interrupts on the hardware level while USB have no interrupts but priority on the operating level. There are also evidence that support mechanical over membrane when talking about keyboards. (ghosting, multi-input, ect.)
Very interesting debates on that end.
(Too bad you can’t get a keyboard and mouse using PS/2 easily now-a-days)
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Muti key suport on PS/2 is a real advantage over usb keyboard. To achieve the same effect on usb, it usually need to spilt a usb keyboard into multiple sections and registerd as different usb devices. That is why some high end usb keyboard has 2 usb connectors both need to be pluged in. However, the latency difference between PS/2 and USB is only exist on paper, since modern cpu has insane clock speed that is over 4ghz, and usb polling rate is already 1000hz or even higher. The difference between direct system interrupt or polling is very very small, less than 1ms.