I keep forgetting I really am as sensitive as I claim. I just sat for a few moments at someone else's computer to help them with something and I hurt
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On a WinXP system: Right-click on the desktop; select "Properties."
Click the "Settings" tab. Click "Advanced."
Click the "Monitor" tab. Screen refresh rate is somewhere in there. Default is 60 for most monitors; older ones need to be smashed with big hammers can't safely be set higher than that. 75 is tolerable, and a bit more than tolerable on a flat screen. 85 is good.
60 is painful. The flicker bothers me all day. From across the room. I've been known to sneak around offices re-setting the refresh rate on every computer I can get to.
thank you. I just reset mine to 85. I cannot consciously see the flicker at 60, but I am going to see it this changes anything in my headaches and neck pains.
okay, that was bad. I apparently have weird eyes. 60 doesn't bother me at all. 85 hurt like I was being stabbed with fire in my eyes. I have reset to 60.
Is this a CRT-specific thing? 'Cause on my LCD monitor I can't see the refresh. I can see LED taillights flicker, I can see flourescent lights flicker, I can see DLP televisions go through their R-G-B cycle... but I don't see anything weird going on with my screen and it's set to 60hz. I set it to 75Hz and it kinda felt buzzy but that may have been my imagination as it didn't look different.
It's a CRT thing, as I recall. My work monitor's set at 75, looks like, which is why a white background isn't painful to look at.
It's worse, though, on a start up screen, because for whatever reason the refresh is low and the image is low resolution as well, and it's flicker city.
I know my sensitivity to this sort of thing goes up when I'm sick, though. Most of the time, it's just a tiresome nuisance. Then again, I've got a flatscreen at home so I don't have that problem.
I had to do it to my LCD screen as well. I think the CRT makes it more noticible.
Mostly it is a corner of my eye thing. Or if I stand at a distance. It keeps making me what to strain to see "something" and that is what ends up hurting me I think. Staring straight at it is hard to see.
When you feel better -
What's a refresh rate?
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Right-click on the desktop; select "Properties."
Click the "Settings" tab.
Click "Advanced."
Click the "Monitor" tab.
Screen refresh rate is somewhere in there. Default is 60 for most monitors; older ones need to be smashed with big hammers can't safely be set higher than that. 75 is tolerable, and a bit more than tolerable on a flat screen. 85 is good.
60 is painful. The flicker bothers me all day. From across the room. I've been known to sneak around offices re-setting the refresh rate on every computer I can get to.
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Could be interesting.
Sparrow
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*whimpers*
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It's worse, though, on a start up screen, because for whatever reason the refresh is low and the image is low resolution as well, and it's flicker city.
I know my sensitivity to this sort of thing goes up when I'm sick, though. Most of the time, it's just a tiresome nuisance. Then again, I've got a flatscreen at home so I don't have that problem.
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Mostly it is a corner of my eye thing. Or if I stand at a distance. It keeps making me what to strain to see "something" and that is what ends up hurting me I think. Staring straight at it is hard to see.
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