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Do you set your TV on "GAME"?

Yes. 58 40.56%
 
No. 79 55.24%
 
Dunno. 6 4.20%
 
Total:143
bonzobanana on 02 April 2017
Conina said:
LivingMetal said:

Most newer (I suspect all) TVs have a "GAME" option (or equivalent) to help reduce controller input lag. 

Well, most TVs don't reduce input lag when activating "game mode", they only oversaturate the picture.

But it would be nice if modern TVs and consoles both would support FreeSync.

They do reduce input lag normally although there may be televisions where they don't be they would be the  minority. By reducing picture processing it reduces the delay to producing a picture which makes games more responsive due to reduced input lag.

http://uk.rtings.com/tv/tests/inputs/input-lag



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superchunk on 03 April 2017
Darc Requiem said:
superchunk said:
Nope. When I get a new TV I spend time doing different things like watching TV, Sports, Movies, etc and tweak the settings to get to one I feel is best. I then never touch again.

Newer sets allow you to have different setting for each input. My 4K Samsung does this. Even if it didn't. It takes two seconds to turn off game mode if that.

Honestly, I've never really seen a reason to adjust per input type. 



Cloudman on 03 April 2017

I've seen the GAME option before, but weirdly most of my TVs don't have it. I guess I'm fine without it, haha.



 

              

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StarOcean on 03 April 2017

I used to see that option on old CRT TV's, I didn't know that came back



Darc Requiem on 03 April 2017
superchunk said:
Darc Requiem said:

Newer sets allow you to have different setting for each input. My 4K Samsung does this. Even if it didn't. It takes two seconds to turn off game mode if that.

Honestly, I've never really seen a reason to adjust per input type. 

Each console has it own quirks. Sometimes you need to account for them.AI game may looked washed out on one console and fine on another.



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bonzobanana on 03 April 2017
StarOcean said:
I used to see that option on old CRT TV's, I didn't know that came back

All 50hz/60hz CRT televisions and monitors wouldn't need a game mode as they  have no input lag anyway. They have no ability to hold or process the image, the signal goes straight to the guns of the tube basically. It's only the fancy CRT televisions or monitors that could possibly need a game mode, pixelplus sets for example by Phillips or other high definition CRT sets or CRT rear projection sets and possibly 100/120hz sets that have electronic processing of the image. 99.9% of CRT sets have no input lag at all.