<div dir="ltr"><br>Hi,<br>I am trying to design an experiment with precise timing measure. In order to make my problem clear, I have to give some details about my experiment.<br><br>The order of the slide is<br>CROSS - FP - LANDC - BLANK.<br>The "timing important" frames, however, are only the last three. <br><br>CROSS, FP and LANDC have "PreRelease" on (same as duration), the forth one doesn't have any prerelease. This is because the forth frame is a response frame, so the prerelease would be useless.<br><br>The CROSS slide lasts 1000 milliseconds and has prerelease. FP duration, however, changes everytime (reading from an attribute "Duration" in the trialList).<br>LANDC lasts 200 milliseconds. LANDC is a slide with an image object, and the image is in a directory specified by another attribute ("Image") in trialList.<br>BLANK wait for the subject response.<br><br>All the subject but LANDC are blank slides.<br><br>The refreshAlignment is 50%.<br><br>I am not interested in the timing of the CROSS slide.<br><br>When I test my experiment on my office computer, the delay of FP and BLANK is around 0. The delay of LANDC is more variable (from -8 to 8, usually). The resolution in this computer (LCD) is 1920x1080 at 60Hz. I can accept a delay of max +-((1000/60))/2 ms. This means that for a refresh rate of 60hz, it is fine for me if the slide appears +- 8 ms before/after it is supposed to appear. Ifigured that FP and BLANK have a delay of 0 because the duration of their previous frame is a multiple of 16.66 ms. This seems to be the case: the CROSS slide duration, as said before, is 1000 (and 16.66*60 is 999.6). The duration of LANDC is 200 (16.66*12=199.92). However, LANDC doesn't have a delay of 0 because its previous frame, FP, doesn't have a multiple of the refresh rate (and I will not change that: the duration of FP changes constantly, according to the Duration attribute).<br><br>The onsetDelay of 0 for the two frames is a lucky coincidence, and it is not required to be zero. As said before, it could be anything between +-(1000/refrashRate)/2.<br><br>Now, MY PROBLEM IS that when I try the experiment on ANOTHER MACHINE the onsetDelay behave in a problematic way.<br><br>When the resolution is 1600x1200 70Hz, I have almost perfect result when the refresh rate is 75Hz or lower. If the refresh rate is 85 or 100Hz, I have a OnsetDaly of approximately 11-12ms for all of the three slides (FP, LANDC and BLANK). Why this happens???<br><br>I could just stick with the 75Hz or lower rate, you could say. In my experiment, however, I highly prefer to use an high resolution. I tried a lot of different combination of resolution/refresh rate, and all the higher one lead to a dramatic (10/15 ms) increase of the onsetDelay for all the three slides.<br>In particular I tried=<br>2048x1539, 75Hz and 60Hz<br>1920x1440, 85Hz, 75Hz, 70Hz and 60Hz.<br>1920x1200 70Hz and 60Hz.<br>1920x1080 70Hz<br><br><br>I also tried with 1600x900. In this case, the results were good (around zero for CROSS and BLANK, within a reasonable range for LANC).<br><br>So, it seems that, REGARDLESS of the refresh rate, at high resolution the onsetDelay increase.<br><br>Does anyone have any idea why this happens? <b>Does anyone have any suggestion about HOW COULD I USE HIGH RESOLUTION WITHOUT ONSET DELAY?</b><br><br>Just for your information: the second monitor is a CRT Sony GDM-F520 (specs= http://www.docs.sony.com/release/specs/GDMF520_sp.pdf ). As you can notice, the recommended resolutions are 1920x1440 85Hz, 1800x1440 85Hz and 1600x1200 85Hz. For some reason, I cannot set the resolution to be 1800x1440. <br>Anyway, as you can see I tried a lot of combination without success. I really need my resolution to be high (>= 1920x1200). The refresh rate is not so important, but since it is a CRT monitor I would prefer it to be higher than 72Hz. <br><br>I really don't know what to do :(<br>Any help is highly appreciated.<br>Best Regards,<br>Valerio<br><br></div>
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