Forcing a Steam game to run at 75 Hz

Hello,
I'm trying to set EuroTruckSimulator 2 to run at 75 Hz, but it keeps opening at 60 Hz which makes my eyes hurt. I tried setting it's launch options (On it's Properties tab, on Steam) to "-refresh 75" with no results. Also, there's no good in-game change for refresh rates, only to 50 and 59 Hz. There's nothing related to it in the game's folders.
I couldn't find anything related to a specific app profile in regards to the nvidia control panel, only Global sets which don't work because the game will change the refresh rate to 60 anyway.
Any help is appreciated.
Last edited by Amarildo (2014-05-12 13:59:57)

kokoko3k wrote:ewaller, i've a tft display that can sync to 75hz too and it is smoother that way (doesn't drop nor duplicate frames either at 60 or 75 hz.)
There are also a lot of TVs that can sync to multiple frequencies (50hz pal, 24p,60hz and so on...)
What do you mean with "fool's errand"?
I admit that it has been two years since I have designed anything that drives a LCD panel. Maybe in that time they have developed panels that can run at multiple rates. The last time I designed one, there was a front end that collected data at whatever rate it the video was encoded, a back end that fed data to the panel at the (one) rate it would accept the data, a a bunch of signal processing in between in which data were buffered, double buffered, filtered, interpolated, scaled, gamma corrected, and synchronized to the audio. Those panels used a active drive transistor to drive each subpixel and, at a given drive level, require a certain amount of time to charge or discharge a given cell. I suppose it might be possible modern panels use different drive levels to compensate for different dwell times. By I suspect there is something else going on that is not obvious.
The displays I designed could do PAL and SECAM (50Hz field rate, interlaced), NTSC (60 Hz Field Rate, interlaced), and VGA at (50, 60 and 75 Hz frame rated, progressive scan). The panel took the data at a 60 Hz frame rate, progressive. The really nice thing about LCD is that they don't flicker
A fools errand is an English colloquialism meaning a pointless task that cannot really be completed. Examples are a snipe hunt or a left handed smoke shifter

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