Geforce Go 6600 refresh rate

I bought a laptop with the geforce Go 6600 graphics card in it.
Ive just updated to the latest drivers and i still cant get a higher refresh rate than 60hz.
I read on the nvidia site that this card supports up to 85hz.

I cant use 60hz as it hurts my eyes.

How can i increase the refresh rate?
Even no the lowest resolution, it wont let me choose anything over 60hz.

 

You can't change it on the laptop, that's the highest it will go. It's a limitation of the monitor.

Chaz

 

as chaz said, the refresh rate maximum is controlled by the monitor..the card can support up to 85hz, but the maximum the monitor can handle is 60, and therefore it will not go higher then that.

pb,out.

 

oh..
This is a huge deal to me. Half the reason I got this card was for the higher refresh rate.

So there is nothing I can do?

What is the point of them selling a notebook with that graphics card if it cant go over 60hz?
This has really angered me, I feel like i have bought this notebook for nothing now.

The whole idea of getting a new one was to save my eyes from eye strain.. 60hz is going to kill me.

 

Refresh rate was really only a concern with CRTs, which had to have a high refresh rate because the image was constantly being redrawn. Having too low a refresh rate caused eyestrain because elements of human vision outside of consciousness could detect subtle flickering at 60Hz and lower.

However, this is irrelevant for a laptop's LCD. On a flat-panel display, the individual pixels don't change until the actual image changes. Read this.

So your laptop screen shouldn't be giving you any eyestrain. If it is, try lowering the brightness a bit.

 

I recall reading something about that a long time ago Flanken, thanks for that.
My old IBM P3 supported 75hz so i automatically thought a brand new laptop would support higher than that, especially with such a good graphics card that supports up to 85hz.

This is the description of my screen-
15.4" Widescreen XGA (1280x800) TFT Screen

What about games?
They can't run well at 60hz can they?

 

Like I said, with a laptop, refresh rate is irrelevant. Why Windows even lists it for LCDs I don't know; probably an archaic holdover. At any rate, it only serves to confuse people.

Games don't really care about refresh rates at all. What does affect gameplay is the frame rate, i.e. how fast the video card can generate screens. As long as you're getting over 30 FPS, your game will run just fine. If you're curious about your frame rate, many games have an option to list it. Or you can run FRAPS.

 

Hi,

The lightoutput with CRT's comes from the pixels being 'hit' by the electron beam. Beacause the beam starts in the upper left corner and ends in the bottom right. Because of this, by the time the beam comes top the bottom right, the upper left and most of the upper part has already started to faint. The eye integrates the brightness and sees 'flicker'. Even if your brain looks over it, it's still a strain on your eyes.

However, the lightoutput with LCD comes from the backlight, either edge or back lit. Because this is a constant light source (or at least: the CCFL lights flicker at much higher frequencies) this is of no concern to the eyes. So the refresh rate is no longer attached to the flickering of the screen, but only to the amount of times the information on the screen is updated. And 60Hz is more than enough for that.

Hope this helps,

Ice-Tea

 

Yep I get it now, thanks people.
And yes, I was confusing frame rate with refresh rate for games

 

Just a comment even thought it doesn't matter (which is news to me). I was able to set it higher in my graphics settings (look at my sig i have a 6600). I have it on 85hz now but actually it let me set it higher (i just didn't).

 

Your monitor must support the higher refresh rate