Refresh Rate not stable in 3D games

In the past few months, many of my 3D games seem to drop my refresh rate of
85mz and I get a wavy screen. In some games it only happens in the menu,
half life, Combat arms, in others they are unplayable. I've done driver
rollbacks and updates, all the same. Even tried coolbits. I'm thinking
that it might be hardware since it happens in Puppy Linux.
Sometimes I can correct it by changing 1280x960 to 1024768, or the reverse.

eVGA 7600gs 256
Aoc 19" 9klr

any suggestions will be appreciated

TonyK

tonyk wrote:
> In the past few months, many of my 3D games seem to drop my refresh rate of
> 85mz and I get a wavy screen. In some games it only happens in the menu,
> half life, Combat arms, in others they are unplayable. I've done driver
> rollbacks and updates, all the same. Even tried coolbits. I'm thinking
> that it might be hardware since it happens in Puppy Linux.
> Sometimes I can correct it by changing 1280x960 to 1024768, or the reverse.
>
> eVGA 7600gs 256
> Aoc 19" 9klr
>
> any suggestions will be appreciated
>
> TonyK

I think I understand your wavy lines complaint, but "dropping my refresh
rate of 85Hz (not MHz)" doesn't make much sense. If is it changing to
another rate you should hear the relay click, if it is not clicking,
then it is still at 85.

Either way, check your input current...low voltage to your monitor and
your system can cause this, so can DB15 cable RF interference.

"Mr.E Solved!" <Iamsingle@askme.out> wrote in
news:7bqdncP5PdmOaRXVnZ2dnUVZ_u-dnZ2d@comcast.com:

> tonyk wrote:
>> In the past few months, many of my 3D games seem to drop my refresh
>> rate of 85mz and I get a wavy screen. In some games it only happens
>> in the menu, half life, Combat arms, in others they are unplayable.
>> I've done driver rollbacks and updates, all the same. Even tried
>> coolbits. I'm thinking that it might be hardware since it happens in
>> Puppy Linux. Sometimes I can correct it by changing 1280x960 to
>> 1024768, or the reverse.
>>
>> eVGA 7600gs 256
>> Aoc 19" 9klr
>>
>> any suggestions will be appreciated
>>
>> TonyK
>
> I think I understand your wavy lines complaint, but "dropping my
> refresh rate of 85Hz (not MHz)" doesn't make much sense. If is it
> changing to another rate you should hear the relay click, if it is not
> clicking, then it is still at 85.
>
it's at 85 until It goes wavy, then it's at 50, I can check it on the
screen I don't hear the click anymore

tonyk wrote:
> "Mr.E Solved!" <Iamsingle@askme.out> wrote in
> news:7bqdncP5PdmOaRXVnZ2dnUVZ_u-dnZ2d@comcast.com:
>
>> tonyk wrote:
>>> In the past few months, many of my 3D games seem to drop my refresh
>>> rate of 85mz and I get a wavy screen. In some games it only happens
>>> in the menu, half life, Combat arms, in others they are unplayable.
>>> I've done driver rollbacks and updates, all the same. Even tried
>>> coolbits. I'm thinking that it might be hardware since it happens in
>>> Puppy Linux. Sometimes I can correct it by changing 1280x960 to
>>> 1024768, or the reverse.
>>>
>>> eVGA 7600gs 256
>>> Aoc 19" 9klr
>>>
>>> any suggestions will be appreciated
>>>
>>> TonyK
>> I think I understand your wavy lines complaint, but "dropping my
>> refresh rate of 85Hz (not MHz)" doesn't make much sense. If is it
>> changing to another rate you should hear the relay click, if it is not
>> clicking, then it is still at 85.
>>
> it's at 85 until It goes wavy, then it's at 50, I can check it on the
> screen I don't hear the click anymore

Either way your CRT is dying. In my time I've had 4 CRT's die out, 2
Envision 15", a Komodo 17", and a MAG 19". In that same time I've had
exactly 1 NVIDIA based card fail (due to lightning strike), and a dozen
others are still in perfect working order including an ancient Riva 128.

So let's get to the question at hand, don't you think it's your monitor?

deimos <deimos@localhost> wrote in news:g6b8e50ki4@news2.newsguy.com:

> So let's get to the question at hand, don't you think it's your monitor?
>

YUP! it's over five years old and has never been turned off.
And, the fact it happened in Puppy Linux too. I solved it there by going
1024x768x16 from 1280x960x32

Thanx too all
tonyk