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nuninho1980 wrote: ↑

12 Dec 2020, 12:12

Can ASUS ROG SWIFT 360Hz PG259QN work 50Hz and 60Hz single strobe (but "hack" needed)?

Just tested to find out. The answer is yes.

ASUS PG259QN Supports Single Strobe ULMB 50 Hz and ULMB 60 Hz

I just tested now. PG259QN 360Hz still supports the Custom ULMB Hack.

50 Hz single strobe -- works, I tested these timings on my PG259QN via NVIDIA Control Panel:

The problem is it's extremely hard for newbies to calculate (multiple steps) and extremely hard to do in ToastyX (timings didn't save properly), but here are instructions.
1. I used the method found in the old FAQ ULMB 60 Hz Hack, then I screenshotted the ToastyX numbers.
2. Then I recreated it directly via NVIDIA Control Panel (Manual method)....and it worked!

You have to use the exact Pixel Clock of a working ULMB refresh rate and keep increasing Vertical Total (to increase the Pixel Clock and lower ULMB refresh rate) until you successfully get the low-Hz ULMB. Don't edit the refresh rate, you have to keep increasing Vertical Total until you reach your target refresh rate. You need to achieve as close as possible to exactly 346.4240 MHz pixel clock (via ULMB 144Hz timings) with any sub-144Hz ULMB refresh rates, and you need to achieve exactly 597.7800 MHz pixel clock (via ULMB 240Hz timings) with any sub-240Hz ULMB refresh rates.

50Hz Single Strobe Timings for ASUS PG259QN (derived from 144Hz ULMB)

NVIDIA Control Panel


60Hz Single Strobe Timings for ASUS PG259QN (derived from 144Hz ULMB)

NVIDIA Control Panel


I did not test the 50Hz & 60Hz single strobe timings derived from 240Hz ULMB at this time, but theoretically those should work too.

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curious do crazy high VT's work on that monitor? 6000+ that would allow it to use it's full scanout speed and maximize pixel settling time.

Also please post some pursuit photo's of that beast single strobing I wanna see how a fast ips matches up to my tn.

elexor wrote: ↑

17 Dec 2020, 06:43

to use it's full scanout speed

+1 Hope Chief can discover ways to take 360Hz scanout speed and tweak strobe phase. Would be a next gen strobing monitor.

Chief, you can talk a bit about motion quality in these 50/60Hz freqs with this "144Hz scanout" VT tweak ? similar crosstalk/brightness ratio of BenQ XL2411P ?

Thanks You !

What’s the benefit? Sorry, first I’ve seen this. I’ve been wanting to see BFI for 360hz or heck even entry into the service menu.

Alpha wrote: ↑

02 Mar 2021, 00:42

What’s the benefit? Sorry, first I’ve seen this. I’ve been wanting to see BFI for 360hz or heck even entry into the service menu.

Mainly for 60 years of legacy 60fps 60Hz material.
- Videos
- Emulators
- Retro games
- Console ports

If you don't need to support CRT-motion-clarity 50 Hz or 60 Hz, this thread isn't usually of interest to you.

Also 360 Hz strobing isn't going to be as good quality, since for LCDs specifically, you need refresh rate headroom for high quality strobing. With the triple match (frame rate = refresh rate = strobe rate) consideration for strobe quality, it's easier to get this at lower refresh rates at the moment.

So you either want to reduce motion blur strobelessly by going as high framerate as possible (360fps 360Hz without BFI/strobing)
OR milk the proper use of strobing-quality improvements (including counterintuitive moves such as slightly lowering refresh rates to get clearer strobed motion).

The most common sweet spot is ~120Hz for strobing, though 360 Hz panels at current GtG response can (in theory) do a good job of 180-240Hz strobing, assuming you can get the triple match for motion nirvana (strobe rate = refresh rate = frame rate).

Would be nice if we could combine 2160p resolution with 60hz single strobe.
Did anyone try it and was successfull? I have tried nvidia control panel and toasty, but cant get an output if I set resolution to 2160p.
Atm I use Nvidia's DSR to get 2160p internal resolution but I can't hold 144hz for ULMB.

Rogex47 wrote: ↑

04 Apr 2021, 08:29

Would be nice if we could combine 2160p resolution with 60hz single strobe.
Did anyone try it and was successfull? I have tried nvidia control panel and toasty, but cant get an output if I set resolution to 2160p.
Atm I use Nvidia's DSR to get 2160p internal resolution but I can't hold 144hz for ULMB.

If your monitor hasn't native 4k, you should enable antialiasing or DLSS (DLSS support requires GeForce RTX 20x0 or newer except GTX 16x0).

nuninho1980 wrote: ↑

05 Apr 2021, 06:17

Rogex47 wrote: ↑

04 Apr 2021, 08:29

Would be nice if we could combine 2160p resolution with 60hz single strobe.
Did anyone try it and was successfull? I have tried nvidia control panel and toasty, but cant get an output if I set resolution to 2160p.
Atm I use Nvidia's DSR to get 2160p internal resolution but I can't hold 144hz for ULMB.

If your monitor hasn't native 4k, you should enable antialiasing or DLSS (DLSS support requires GeForce RTX 20x0 or newer except GTX 16x0).

DLSS upscales lower resolution to the "nativ" resolution of the monitor. If I can only display 1080p, DLSS in Quality Mode will upscale 720p to 1080p. So this doesn't help me. What I do is to run 4x DSR (4K) + DLSS, but then I can only use ULMB at 144hz or 240hz. Ideally would be to get 4K output + DLSS + 60hz ULMB.

Rogex47 wrote: ↑

06 Apr 2021, 10:54

nuninho1980 wrote: ↑

05 Apr 2021, 06:17

Rogex47 wrote: ↑

04 Apr 2021, 08:29

Would be nice if we could combine 2160p resolution with 60hz single strobe.
Did anyone try it and was successfull? I have tried nvidia control panel and toasty, but cant get an output if I set resolution to 2160p.
Atm I use Nvidia's DSR to get 2160p internal resolution but I can't hold 144hz for ULMB.

If your monitor hasn't native 4k, you should enable antialiasing or DLSS (DLSS support requires GeForce RTX 20x0 or newer except GTX 16x0).

DLSS upscales lower resolution to the "nativ" resolution of the monitor. If I can only display 1080p, DLSS in Quality Mode will upscale 720p to 1080p. So this doesn't help me. What I do is to run 4x DSR (4K) + DLSS, but then I can only use ULMB at 144hz or 240hz. Ideally would be to get 4K output + DLSS + 60hz ULMB.

To do this needs both ToastyX and NVIDIA Control Panel.

Create the native 1920x1080 mode in ToastyX with the necessary hack to unlock 60 Hz single strobe.

Next, in NVIDIA Control Panel, create a GPU-scaled 4K resolution that uses the custom 1920x1080 60Hz mode.

If this does not work, try to delete all existing 59-61Hz mode for 1920x1080 so that NVIDIA Control Panel has to derive the GPU-scaled mode from the only custom ToastyX CRU 60Hz strobe hack.

This may not 100% work if the NVIDIA ULMB's DRM has a bug and ends up failing (the same thing that prevents ULMB on AMD cards), but you'll need to use both CRU's (create the native mode in ToastyX, THEN create the scaled mode in NVIDIA Control Panel)

Use ToastyX reset-all.exe to restore deleted modes and undo all installation of hacked modes.

Be careful... ToastyX CRU modifies your registry with its EDID override information; do so at your risk.