Refresh Rate Tuner v1.0 is out now

7 Oct, 2025

I decided to finally clean up and release Refresh Rate Tuner today.

If you don't know what that is, it's a small program to change your display's refresh rate based on whether your laptop is plugged in or not. This can be useful to save power when you're on battery, while also automatically switching back to the default when plugged in. It also has support for multiple displays, but unless I'm missing something, secondary displays are already getting their own power source, so it might not be as useful there.

I released variants for three .NET versions: 3.5, 4.8, and 8.0. This is for compatibility on the widest range of Windows versions (going back to XP!), while also testing out the latest .NET release, which to date none of my other projects use (mainly due to needing Windows services). I would still stick with the .NET Framework 4.8 version as that's the one that I tested more, and no support will be provided for outdated Windows versions (except 10, which I still use the LTSC version of).

Download Refresh Rate Tuner here.