Refresh rate is the number of times per second that the contents of the video card's memory are sent to your monitor. Even if the Aquarium generates 200 frames per second, if your refresh rate is 60 Hz, then only 60 distinct images are being seen on the monitor.
If your LCD can be set higher than 60Hz refresh, then you can benefit from higher FPS in the Aquarium as well.
What is preventing more frames per second from automatically working is the DirectX refresh setting for your LCD. Microsoft, in its infinite wisdom, separated the refresh rate of your Windows from the refresh rate when running DirectX applications.
Please go your
Display Properties (right-click on the desktop and chose
Properties or go to
Control Panel) and go to the
Settings tab. Click the
Advanced button in the lower right corner to bring up the Advanced window. Now click the
Monitor tab. The refresh rate there is the max your monitor is capable of. If it says
Optimal, click it to reveal the menu. The highest number there is the highest your monitor is capable of.
If it's higher than 60, then go to
Start menu,
Run, type
dxdiag and click
OK.
After a few moments, a window will appear and finish searching the system for DX components. Click the
More Info tab.
In the center right, click the
Override... button (on the same line as
...DirectDraw refresh rate.... The
Default is 60. You can override this with whatever your monitor can handle.
I have mine set to 85.
Again, I am thinking this is not a big deal on LCDs, but I haven't heard definitively one way or the other about refresh rates + LCDs. So you can be our guinea pig.
