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[ralphmelton]

I now have a desktop computer at work.

Unfortunately, I've discovered that a refresh rate of 85Hz on the monitor maks a big difference for me. I was getting headaches when I had the monitor at 75Hz.

And the monitor/video card in this computer won't do 85Hz at more than 1168x864 resolution, which gives me fewer pixels than the laptop did.

Fooey.

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[beegle.livejournal.com]

Consider this UL, but I recall reading somewhere that on color monitors, increasing resolution caused far more headaches than a similar increase on greyscale monitors (in fact, under certain conditions (like increasing typeface size proportionally, headaches went -down- as resolution increased on greyscale monitors). The author's theory was that by increasing resolution, the viewer was more likely to notice individual RGB triads, which interferes with the process of fooling the brain into thinking that it's viewing a solid color.

Of course, I've gone looking for this before and haven't been able to find it, so it may just be a product of my fevered imagination. I read this back when "serious" computers (e.g. workstations) still used B&W or greyscale.

[cellio]

Required refresh rate to avoid flicker goes up as the monitor size does. It's possible that you would win, ultimately, with a slightly smaller monitor and higher resolution, depending on the specifics (especially if you can change by 1" rather than 2"). Or maybe you just need to replace the graphics card.

I'm at 1152x864 and 100 Hz -- a lower refresh rate gives me a headache. Since my vision isn't so great I don't mind this resolution on a 21" monitor, though you probably perceive that as big chunky pixels. :-) (I just checked, and my graphics card seems prepared to offer me 1280x1024 at 100 Hz. But that resolution results in things that are too small for me to see.)

I assume that your employer isn't going to buy you a large LCD monitor, thus eliminating flicker issues, any time soon. :-)

[eub.livejournal.com]

a slightly smaller monitor and higher resolution

I wonder if cranking down the image size on the screen would be any good.