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I am all about smooth motion, I hung onto my CRT until like 2009, was one of the first adopters of Samsung's 120hz pc monitor line in 2011 (a revelation vs the 60hz LCD blur fests before that) and then got the first Asus G-Sync monitor in 2014, another step forward.

But I am now confused about the new OLED monitors and the hz increases, not having owned one. I don't play online competitive games, I play SP games and want to turn the graphics quality up, so probably will always be getting under 100 fps for any latest title.

Given that, will I see any motion gains with the higher hz vs just a 240hz model?
All youtube reviews of these new OLED monitors seem to focus on turning graphics settings down to get very high fps for online gaming, but I want to know how they compare when adaptive sync is operating at 70 fps...

agisthos wrote: ↑

27 Dec 2024, 23:05

Given that, will I see any motion gains with the higher hz vs just a 240hz model?

No.

I guess this means I will wait for G-Sync Pulsar!

Why don't you try a new OLED monitor? New experience brings a lot of fun. At least I think it can't be worse than your current one.

If you keep playing at 100fps, then 480Hz makes no sense at all.
But there are two things which may change that:

- possibly frame gen (interpolation). In most new games with highest settings, you won't be able to stay above 130fps to have something like 100>400fps interpolation. But in those where you can, this can be a very good idea
- you will need lots of time and effort to understand this tricky matter. It's full of psychological traps, but if you reach the wisdom at the end, you will understand that lower settings + clear motion = more details in motion and better overall image quality. Depends on the still vs. moving ration in games, but that also is one of the traps - you will need to re-learn a different type of controlling the camera on a 480Hz monitor. People who get used to smeary blurry motion, tend to control the camera with "fast move, stop, fast move, stop" method. But if you put some effort you will re-learn what people 25 years ago were doing naturally - you can use fluid movements while looking at scenery, even in faster camera movements.

The other traps are mostly the problem of not being aware of what you lose. This requires a ton of time and effort to defeat. Even then, you will still need some work. Even I fall for this trap, and that's after over a decade of me warning people about it.

If you do it right, you will realize that even if you seem to not be aware of it, there's something awesome in playing with crystal clear motion. You will feel it every time you return to it, but because of the mentioned traps, you will very quickly forget. Even a day playing on 100fps again will be enough to lure you into this trap and shut the door. Don't fall for it.

What I'm getting to is this: When you have 480Hz OLED, you may decide to play on medium settings instead. Or even more surprisingly, you may decide to play older games. Many of them will suddenly turn from boring 5/10 games to very fun and enjoyable 8/10 games.

Also, forget about the scores. That "better motion or Hz is beneficial only to esports players" is a pile of BS and here's why:
https://blurbusters.com/massive-upgrade ... or-office/

smoothness =/= clear motion
responsiveness =/= smoothness

You won't get better scores in competetive games on 480Hz compared to 120Hz with g-sync or v-sync off. It's not like 60 > 120Hz. It's good enough. But a completety different matter - motion clarity, is where 480Hz will be great. As Chief mentioned - it can even make a bigger difference to go 120 >480 than going 60>120 (as this only means super blurry to slightly less but still very blurry). 480Hz gets you close to that CRT, if you still remember that.

BTW. I still keep 3 CRT monitors
I don't use them since I got blessed with 120HZ TN LCD with BLurbuster's strobe utility. It's basically a CRT tier of motion quality.