Does 144Hz make sense if I'm only playing at 60fps

[silvrbckgorilla]

Title says it all. 

Does it make sense? My friends swears by 144hz in every case.

 

I'm only playing slow paced RPG and strategy games like witcher, kingdom come, total war etc. I don't play multiplayer or FPS because I hate people.

 

 

[boggy77]

if you don't play any game that could be pushed past 60fps, then no, there's no point in it. if your system is the one in your signature, it would struggle to get much more than 60fps in modern games anyway.

[FlappyBoobs]

It's a much better windows experience in general. But if you never play above 60fps it only makes sense if you need a new screen anyway. 

[silvrbckgorilla]

No I upgraded. That's my old system.

 

Now I'm in the market for a new monitor. I was thinking about 4k60hz and QHD144hz. All my friends keep pushing 144hz, but in my scenario I think 4k60hz makes more sense. Especially because I use a Lightroom a lot. 

 

Just wanted to check. Thanks

[minibois]

6 minutes ago, silvrbckgorilla said:

Does it make sense? My friends swears by 144hz in every case.

Title: "Does 144Hz make sense if I'm only playing at 60fps"

Technically, a higher refresh rate could display the frame given by your videocard a bit faster, because it is highly unlikely the 60fps lines up with the 60Hz. In practice it doesn't do anything more for you.

7 minutes ago, silvrbckgorilla said:

I don't play multiplayer or FPS because I hate people.

Same.  

[Alex Atkin UK]

Higher refresh rates "feel" much better, so I'd personally be suggesting you go for it and play those games at the higher rate.

 

Its not just FPS, games where you are scrolling the world around will give far less eye strain at a higher refresh rate and as mentioned above, the whole PC just "feels" faster because everything you do is displayed on the screen quicker.

 

I actually hate that I'm stuck with a 4K 60Hz screen now and am constantly on the lookout for something at least 120Hz, but they're so expensive and it seems anything smaller than 27" has fallen out of favour, with 32" actually being quite common which is WAY too big for my setup.

 

However like you say, Lightroom is the catch here where higher resolution might be more beneficial.  I wouldn't go back from 4K to get 120Hz for similar reasons, I need the resolution.  I'm only going 120Hz if I can get 4K too.

[Olaw]

My personal experience as someone who plays most games in the 60 fps range- When i upgraded to 144hz, i really did not see at first what all the fuss was about. I was juggling between displayport, dvi, hdmi to get the image to look the way i like because somehow everything looked a bit off with the higher refresh rates and with different cables, colors/brightness etc. Every game that could utilize the high fps like Hunter Cotw, Doom, looked amazing but at the expense of very loud gpu fan. And every game designed to run lower frame rates all looked stuttery and not smooth at all, i had to make rivatuner profile for every game and tweak with the fps limiter to get the game to look right. The windows user experince is noticeably smoother i give you that but everything else was such a hassle.

[Doobeedoo]

7 hours ago, silvrbckgorilla said:

I don't play multiplayer or FPS because I hate people.

 

7 hours ago, minibois said:

Same.  

I literally play them because of that reason haha, kill 'em

Anyway, depends in games that you play with higher frames sure, it's great, scrolling is even better. Depends how much you care and if you want 4K for work more.