OW at 540hz is stupid

It has a big impact in motion clarity.

https://blurbusters.com/persistence-vs-motion-blur/

The classic “ufo test” shows the blur very obviously to anyone.
https://www.testufo.com/

With 240hz monitors, the ufos etc are quite obviously blurry. The higher hz you go, the clearer they get.

Is it required to perform well in game? No. But it has very obvious difference.

Some people are also more sensitive to the blur than others. But it is there, and once you see games completely blur-free, they look very very nice.

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I’m not saying there is no difference, I’m saying it is negligible.

Maybe in these tests, literally designed to show the difference, they appear to be less than negligible, but certainly when gaming, and certainly for the price, what you are getting is going to be largely unnoticeable and (imo) not worth it.

I went from 240hz oled to 360hz. And it was surprisingly noticeable improvement.
OLEDs are really built different in that regard, compared to LCDs.

If i remember correctly, oleds are generally 1.5-2x better at motion handling than lcds with same hz. ie. 240hz oled is similar to 360hz lcd, etc. (when not strobed)

The major gripe i have with oleds for now is the lack of proper support for g-sync. Other than that, i’ll be never going back.

the fact that you can set higher resolution programs/video/game doesn’t make it higher resolution IRL if it’s a 1440p monitor, and higher resolution means more demand from PC

I refuse to use a monitor under 31.5 inches, 1440P & any less than 144hz.

I’ll have to look into the 540hz and do a bit of research on what’s available. Then see if it’s worth it for me to invest in.

Haha fr I was thinking OW looks pretty cool with my 144Hz laptop while they’re talking about 240 as a minimum

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Hardware unboxed: DON’T Upgrade Your GPU, Upgrade Your Monitor Instead!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCzjA5pdsNs

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Me with my 144hz screen that I thought was good until opening this thread.

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Who needs 540 hz monitors unless they’re playing OW on LAN ethernet directly from Blizzard HQ? I have a 240 hz monitor (with my current specs im running the game at 144hz) and I’m much more annoyed by having 32 ping than anything else. You can have a lightning fast refresh rate, but that won’t save people from thinking their behind cover and the kill cam showing otherwise.
That’s the hurdle people need to overcome.

True hardcore players need a 10.000.000.000.000Hz monitors to see the photons traveling in real time.

Well, they use too, but they notice that the delay between the light leaving the screen and reaching their eyes was absolutely impacting their performance, so they welded the HDMI cables directly into their retinas :zipper_mouth_face: :grimacing:.

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Yeah I am able to consistently get above 500 at 1080p, Overwatch is in general quite easy to run for most specs which is what I like about the game

But yeah most mid-high end hardware is capable of comfortably getting above 240 and even a consistent 360fps in OW even at 1440p

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Why would anyone need 540hz, even as an esport gamer? Your eyes can’t see beyond 60 fps anyways.

I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic but you’re telling me if you set your slider to 60fps, played for a bit and then increased it to like 120fps you wouldn’t notice it?

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yes and no, you can notice it if you are a gamer and the difference between 60 fps and 120 fps is night and day. past that its not really visible

its different for screens too depending on if you use motion blur or not, and also because a screen is not in constant motion (or may flash black between frames for persistence) your brain might not naturally blur the motions

https://blurbusters.com/persistence-vs-motion-blur/

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Actually your eyes can see a lot more, than that, it’s just your brain compressing data to make processing faster.

And here I am still playing on a 60Hz monitor from 2010. :frowning:

Should try oled 240hz display first. Thats what really makes difference.

Say thanks to programmers, that unable to make game work exactly same with 60 fps and 144/240.

Which they supposed to, btw, otherwise you may experience funny things, like guns shooting way faster, than they should. It’s why you normally do not attach game speed to frames per second.

Very old games had same thing with CPU, so on modern, faster CPUs they were basically unbeatable.

I think 144hz laptop is good enough(I had the same for 2 years before building a pc) if you one day have space or budget you can invest in an external monitor but it’s really not necessary
If you wanna take ovw seriously as in you have the making of a CC or a OWL pro then maybe upgrading past 240hz is warranted but for the average ranked player I think 144+ is enough

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