Are you sure the monitor is configured for maximum performance?

This is a fairly common situation: you have a gaming PC with a fairly standard monitor, say Full HD and 60 Hz. You decide to buy a better monitor, for example a Full HD 240 Hz to have a better gaming experience and everything works very well, more fluid, and when you play normally it’s like that. However, it’s possible that you haven’t even bothered to touch the monitor settings to make sure everything is okay, and you’re not actually getting the most out of it…

Check your monitor settings

Especially when you had a monitor and you replaced it with a better one (that is, it is not a new computer but the same PC but with a different monitor), it happens Sometimes the operating system inherits the configuration from the previous one. . This way in games it can run at full speed with the new monitor, but as soon as you close it things change.

For this reason, we are going to show you below which configuration settings you need to check so that the monitor always works at its maximum performance even when you are not playing games.

Check your refresh rate

To begin, you need to verify that it is configured with the refresh rate maximum of the monitor in the operating system itself, because this way not only will the games run smoother, but you will be able to have that same smooth experience even when you are on the desktop.

To check this, right-click on an empty space on the desktop and select “Display Settings”. In the window that opens (this is where you will also find the possibility of enable and disable HDR if the monitor is compatible), scroll down to the bottom and click on “Advanced screen”.

As you can see in the screenshot that we have placed just above these lines, at the top you can select the monitor you want to configure (in case you have several), and at the bottom you can modify its refresh rate. It is common that, if for example you went from a 60 Hz monitor to 165 Hz, under Windows this 60 Hz configuration will remain… well, this is where you can change it to take advantage of 165 Hz even on the desktop (trust us that the change is quite noticeable in terms of fluidity).

Color depth settings

But that’s not all… nowadays it’s quite common to have a monitor with depth of color 8-bit, but there are also many monitors with 10-bit depth. To change this setting, in the same place that we showed you in the previous step you can see that it says “Show graphics card properties 1”, so click on it and in the window that opens click on “Show all modes”.

As we show you in the screenshot above, you will see a list in which you can select the resolution, color depth and again the hertz at which the monitor operates (in case, as in our case, the monitor is not compatible with 10 bits it won’t work, but if it does, this is where you will find this configuration).

G-Sync and FreeSync settings

If your new monitor supports variable refresh rate technology (like NVIDIA’s G-Sync or AMD’s FreeSync), that’s also a setting you’ll need to manually change for it to work. For NVIDIA, right-click on an empty space on the desktop and open the NVIDIA Control Panel. Then, in the left menu you need to click on “Configure G-SYNC”.

In this section, make sure the “Enable G-SYNC, G-SYNC compatibility” setting box is checked on your monitor, and we also recommend checking the option you see in the screenshot so that It works not only when we play in full. screen, but also in windowed mode.

In the case of FreeSync for AMD graphics, the procedure is quite similar: you must access AMD’s Radeon software, and from the main menu you must click on Screen.