Custom Resolution Utility (CRU)

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(07-16-2015 08:08 PM)Leoman77 Wrote:  

(07-16-2015 02:32 PM)ToastyX Wrote:  

(07-16-2015 01:31 PM)Leoman77 Wrote:  I tried lightboost over the weekend to compare to ASUS 144hz monitor and now my games wont run at 144hz anymore.
I have Windows 8.i and I cant find the cru program to uninstall all of it so my Nvidia drivers will work as before I installed Lightboost and CRU.

Can you plz tell me what steps to properly fix this issue?

Your post doesn't make any sense. What do you mean you can't find the CRU program? How did you install LightBoost? If you used CRU, run reset-all.exe and reboot. If you used Strobelight, follow the instructions in that thread: https://www.monitortests.com/forum/Threa...and-NVIDIA

I did and now I cant run 144hz while playing Diablo 3 and a few other games.


How does that NOT make sense?
WOW!

Lemon, you really should calm down.
There are 2 ways you can get 144 hz refresh rate back.
But first can you tell me:
DOES 144 HZ WORK ON THE WINDOWS DESKTOP?
Did you set your Nvidia drivers to use maximum refresh rate or did you limit the refresh rate the games run at? There's a setting in the Nvidia drivers for this.. I can't see if you're using an Nvidia or AMD Card, I'm a bit tired.

1) run strobelight setup, add 144 hz as one of the options, add your lightboost resolutions (like 100 hz and 120hz strobed) if you want, if you want a "non strobed" 120hz setting that does not have lightboost activated, you can add the 121hz also, then save, exit, then restart the driver by running restart64.exe. Restart64.exe is part of CRU, not part of strobelight, so it's two different files/downloads.

You can also just reboot the computer if you can't find where you installed CRU to (but if you can't find something that you downloaded, you need to really learn the basics of computers and file explorer browsing, as that's a basic thing. If you unzipped CRU And can't find it, (CRU), reset all and restart64.exe, that's on you. We can't help you with that.).

2) (I do this on my XL2720Z since strobelight doesn't work on it, but I unlock lightboost by violating my geforce Laptop's privacy, lol):
Use CRU And add a "LCD Reduced" timing of 144 hz refresh rate at your monitor's native res (e.g. 1920x1080).

You MUST choose LCD Reduced or you will get an out of range error.

You could also "enable" the extension block (default extension block). Enabling the extension block will give you 144 hz again, but it may also give you refresh rates you don't want to use, like 60hz.

Now you may ask: Why does strobelight disable the extension block?
The main reason is to make sure that Lightboost is enabled at all times. So the other refresh rates, like 50, 59.94, 60hz, etc, are removed so the driver won't try to use them. That way if you installed 100hz lightboost, you will ALWAYS be at 100hz lightboost.

Example: Ultra Street fighter 4.
This game forces 60hz refresh rate regardless of what the desktop is set to. MOST games use the desktop refresh rate, while some allow you to set the refresh rate yourself. Ultra street fighter 4 forces 60hz.

By using strobelight to install the lightboost resolutions, you can then force ultra street fighter 4 to run at 100hz lightboost intead of 60hz blurry mode.

Is there a drawback to this? Well, yes.
SOME games will crash if 60hz is missing. Dark souls 2 did this on release patch, if I recall correctly, but not anymore.

SOME games that default to 60hz (dark souls) will run at 100hz but will instantly crash if you go into the video game graphics options, because it expects 60hz to be there and it's not.