ATI Refresh Rate Fixer

Tweaking the settings of various system components in order to obtain optimal performance or increase the image quality is easy to carry out, provided that the befitting tools are at hand.

This kind of applications are usually experimenting in areas where the hardware developer would advise regular users not to tinker with, so it is advisable to take all precautionary measures before making any modifications that will have a serious impact on the functioning of that device and of the system overall.

Insofar as graphics cards are concerned, there are numerous such tweaking programs and ATI Refresh Rate Fixer is one of them. Compatible with a couple of older versions of Windows, namely XP and 2K, this utility is meant to help users adjust the refresh rates in both Direct3D and OpenGL modes.

There is an easy to use GUI that makes it possible to choose and modify the current system settings with just a couple of clicks. The list of refresh rates enables users to view the available screen resolutions and the supported rates corresponding to each entry.

A useful feature of ATI Refresh Rate Fixer is the ability to choose on its own the best refresh rate for the current resolution. All the user has to do is press the 'autoconfig' button and in an instant, everything will be set in order.

From the 'Adapter Info' tab, one can view the details about the chip, driver version, card type and the IDs for vendor, device, subsystem and subsystem vendor. The configuration of the driver settings as well as that of the desktop parameters can be completed from the dedicated areas of the application and they depend on the type of video card installed onto the computer.