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Posted by Captain P on Tue Jan 3rd at 1:09pm 2006

Oww, I'm late...

Happy newyear anyway! <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">



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Posted by BlisTer on Tue Jan 3rd at 1:55pm 2006

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Also, the list made me realise - we don't have any French members?


i think Koko5ovar is french

anyway, well put satchmo. my thoughts are similar.

again, happy newyear all <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">



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Posted by Orpheus on Tue Jan 3rd at 2:05pm 2006

? quoting satchmo
I wouldn't be here, because I've never played any of the Quakes (except for a Quake 2 demo).

Funny, I finished them all. In fact I finished everything before HL1, and nothing except Unreal 2 since.

I really need to dig these games out and complete them before the graphics gets so ugly that I refuse to simply because they are ugly. (which wasn't the case upon purchasing)

In modern times only Unreal 2 failed to set off my vertigo problem. Playing and puking is not fun to say the least but somehow Unreal 2 was so smooth that it didn't trigger any unpleasant reactions. I did ease through the game however because I didn't want to chance it but I did finish.





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Posted by Crono on Tue Jan 3rd at 10:08pm 2006

I'm telling you it's the refresh rate you're using. Make sure your refresh rate and you're light bulb's frequencies are the same. You shouldn't get sick that way.


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by Orpheus on Tue Jan 3rd at 10:46pm 2006

Well my friend, herein lies the problem then. My CRT refreshes at 85 and light bulbs do so at? 120?

Perhaps a better quality monitor would solve my issues.

On that note, would a flatscreen LCD/TFT type have a refresh issue since its not ray generated images?

I noticed that 19" lcd's are down to around 200 bucks now for a 12ns delay screen. Thats pretty good methinks.





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Posted by rs6 on Tue Jan 3rd at 10:58pm 2006

Light bulbs refresh at 50-60 hz.



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Posted by Crono on Tue Jan 3rd at 11:21pm 2006

Um. No, Orph is right, lights run at about 110 or 120 Hz. If you have a motor with some string to make a wave, if you get the thing running at 110-120 Hz, you'll see a standing wave, which is very bizarre, to say the least. You can do the same thing with a strobe light. Since those have larger ranges.

You want to choose a frequency that the light frequency is a multiple of (if not the same frequency), since the entire point is to have the wavelengths be multiples of each other. Right now they're not, so you puke from motion sickness. There's some other things you can do too, like turning the brightness of the monitor down.

Try 60 Hz when playing games and see if there's a difference.


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by rs6 on Tue Jan 3rd at 11:26pm 2006

I am almost certain all alternating current generated for regular use in America runs 110-120 volts at 50-60 hz.



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Posted by Orpheus on Tue Jan 3rd at 11:54pm 2006

Funny, I always heard that florescent lighting strobed at 120.

Well A/C is 60 it seems.

RS6 gets the prize I guess.





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Posted by wil5on on Wed Jan 4th at 1:53am 2006

It is 60 Hz, however, in each cycle there is zero current at 2 points, when the current goes positive->negative, and when it goes negative->positive. Hence your light is off 120 times per second instead of 60.

I get the prize

edit: On the topic of LCD/TFT screens, they would probably help. They dont refresh so many times a second like a CRT, so you dont get the strobe effect.




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Posted by Crono on Wed Jan 4th at 2:59am 2006

It hardly matters for the topic of this discussion, since they're multiples.

My physics courses always went off of the lights going at 120 Hz, however, If I remember, the lights were fluorescent.

In any case, try putting your monitor to 60Hz.


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by Gorbachev on Wed Jan 4th at 9:11am 2006

I prefer mine to not be sync'ed, that's what makes me sick. That and the fact that I can see the refresh when it's 60Hz and it doesn't go easy on the eyes. I prefer 75Hz myself, anything more just seems excessive, and in some cases on a few monitors looks more distorted.



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Posted by DrGlass on Wed Jan 4th at 9:55am 2006

yeah so new years to the refresh rate of lights...

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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Jan 4th at 12:08pm 2006

? quoting DrGlass
yeah so new years to the refresh rate of lights...

I love this place

Actually, its about vomiting ol'man.

Some do so by drinking to excess, I do so when playing games.

The moral? Never drink the contents of a light bulb.





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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Thu Jan 5th at 1:00am 2006

I was in Florida, and was so wiped out from swimming 10K in a row that I was asleep before midnight, but happy new year anyway!




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Posted by DrGlass on Thu Jan 5th at 1:43am 2006

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The moral? Never drink the contents of a light bulb.


you mean a vacum, dont drink the vacum in the light bulb... right... <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif">



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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Jan 5th at 1:48am 2006

? quoting DrGlass

? quote:
The moral? Never drink the contents of a light bulb.



you mean a vacum, dont drink the vacum in the light bulb... right...

You sick piece of... *thwacks ensue*





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Posted by DrGlass on Thu Jan 5th at 1:59am 2006

ha ha!

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Posted by wil5on on Thu Jan 5th at 5:18am 2006

But the inside of a lightbulb isnt a vacuum...


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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Jan 5th at 10:13am 2006

Golly gee guys. You sure do know how to ruin a perfectly good joke. Did I have to make it blue to stand out? <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_lol.gif">

I know my jokes make sense to few, but even the most basic person should recognize one by now. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif">

"Poor Orph, tries so hard"

Yup, I can see those words passing through what you call noggins upon your shoulders.

/runs.





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