16" GW2K CRT monitor - has been sitting untouched up my parents attic for ~20 years. My dad helped me carry it down tonight. I had stuck a bunch of dumb stickers on it when I was little but w/e - nostalgia. Front door won't stay closed haha

It makes a popping noise every now and then, and when it pops the screen flickers, but otherwise seems to work great 🤣. (Popping seems to have become less and less now that it has "warmed up"...)

Apparently it is 1280 x 1024 75Hz - I have a high end WinXP PC with a i7-4820K and a Radeon HD 7870, and 1280 x 1024 is the highest option I can choose in the display settings menu. I have Vsync enabled in the driver. Using Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 to test.

Upon starting the game with the "new" monitor, the NFSHP2 setting jumped back to default 800 x 600, and it ran at 75Hz locked according to fraps. Upon changing the game to 1280 x 1024 however, Vsync seems to no longer be enabled, and I have FPS counts ranging 150-300. Looks great except for the tearing. there's no Vsync setting in the game.

In the driver I originally had all the 3D settings at "default" except for Vsync which I had set to "always on". For fun I cranked ALL the settings to MAX (and I mean ALL the settings - super sampling, max AA AF, etc) and I STILL got up to 300 fps in NFHP2 with 1280 x 1024 !! (My thought process was heh - I'll throw a ton of overhead at it, that'll slow it down... but nope)

Not totally understanding why Vsync is not working at 1280 x 1024 on this monitor - with these same settings (1280 x 1024) it locks to 60fps on my mediocre-quality modern flatscreen. But I think I was using DVI in that case... Not sure if that matters...

Is there a frame limiter program that you guys can recommend? Honestly tear-free 800 x 600 looks better on this monitor locked at 75Hz than 1280 x 1024 with tearing 🤣

But anyways, just wanted to show off. Only got into this hobby somewhat recently, and this was a really fun time capsule to find. Funny too because I came VERY close to cutting the VGA cord off this years ago in preparation towards tossing it - the cord is not detachable an therefore it's really fun to trip on it while carrying the monitor. I always assumed old CRT monitors were super junk. But through a stroke of luck I never got around to chopping the cord off.