I don't understand the mumbo jumbo of monitor intricacies, but I personally think its a side effect of the screen delay and the input lag being relatively lower. I m a former masters/grandmaster overwatch player and when I played on a VG248QE, the game felt better with the reduced buffering option to off.romkkaa wrote:I have the same experience as hkngo007
Played first person shooters for 2 days switching between Predator XB271HU and Alienware AW2518H and I felt like I'm faster on the predator (faster aim, faster reaction time, spotting enemies quicker) despite the lower framerate cap (162 and 235 respectively). Planning to return the alienware back to the store tomorrow as I'm very disappointed in it. 240 Hz is a marketing trick, nothing more. Yes, motion clarity is better on the alienware but overall experience is bad.
Reduced buffering ON in that game feels like it has the same effect as the AW2518h with it "off". the cursor feels a lot more tight and harder to manipulate with wrist motion. The only solutions I've come up with are one of the 3:
-using a higher DPI
-Raising in game sensitivity
-Lowering mouse polling rate.
The higher DPI (1600 in my case) feels like the cursor moves a lot faster kinda similar to 800 on my VG248, but its harder to control than my former setting.
Raising in game sensitivity works, but my tracking isn't as good as it used to be because I'm used to using both arm and wrist motion.
Lowering polling rate feels a lot more "crisp", but 1000hz has its own unique feel and it isn't the same kind of tracking.
I kinda agree with your opinions of faster aim and reaction not being as good, but I just have this strong feeling that its kind of like an inverse effect. It would be nice to really look into this from a high elo/psychological aspect, but most people just grind it out and kinda ignore the technicalities as gamers.
Hell I used to play on a dual core skylake CPU and my tracking felt a lot better than with my newer 7700k. Maybe i'm just weird and prefer more lag
Edit: The mouse community also had a similar issue with newer gen logitech mice feeling subjectively more "laggy". But the mice themselves are likely just faster than every other competitive model on the market. We may have reached a point where input lag is just ironically too low.
That or the input lag cuts over the refresh value of 4.1ms and the side effect is just amplified due to refresh rate. I don't really know.