Stolen meme, but I got a 144hz monitor a while back, and I finally decided to give it a proper test. I have thousands of hours in Genshin, and I play on a 3rd party client because it makes XXMI (Genshin modding) really easy, and I'm on Linux so I can't use the regular launcher. I happened to notice it has an fps unlocker, because the game is normally locked to 60 fps. I never cared much about high fps, especially not for an exploration game like Genshin, so I ignored it for the 300 hours of gameplay I have since I switched to Linux. However, today I decided to give it a try and HOLY STANK is it so much better.

I will say that people are correct when they point out, your eyes aren't fast enough to see individual frames even at 60 fps, and especially not at 144. However, almost everything feels a lot more responsive and snappier in a way that's hard to explain, and the biggest difference is in motion.…