# Latency and blur reduction ### Latency Reduction settings
This function can be used to reduce the inherent built-in amount of lag that each game has and can also help to compensate fore input display lag. It's a function that **only applies to Retroarch systems**. To reduce the lag to its minimum, one can pause emulation, press and hold a direction on the controller and advance emulation frame by frame until the character moves. The frames of lag are the amount of frames advanced - 1. Beware that **the higher the number of frames you are going to run ahead of emulation, the higher demand it places on your CPU**. Many of the cores do not leave audio emulation in a clean state after loading state (which is a necessity for this function), so you could get some audio buzzing. Using **Two-Instance mode** makes the primary core not do any load states and avoids that. **Preemptive Frames** is a more modern way to achieve the same result than Run-ahead with less computing power needed. It should be faster but it is game or system dependant. More information are available [in the libretro docs](https://docs.libretro.com/guides/runahead/) used as reference for this wiki page. ### Reducing Motion Blur Black Frame Insertion (BFI) allows the emulator to insert black images between game images to reduce the inherent motion blur of sample-and-hold screens (LCD, QLED and OLED). It's a function that **only applies to Retroarch systems**. This issue was absent on CRTs due to their rolling scan technology and explain why motion appeared smoother. ### Screen Sync settings The Black Frame Insertion setting in Retrobat follows the graduation of RetroArch so it should be set as follow:\ 1 - For 120Hz displays\ 2 - For 180Hz displays\ 3 - For 240Hz displays\ 4 - For 300Hz displays\ 5 - For 360Hz displays\ 6 - For 420Hz displays\ 7 - For 480Hz displays\ 8 - For 540Hz displays\ 9 - For 600Hz displays\ 10 - For 660Hz displays\ 11 - For 720Hz displays\ 12 - For 780Hz displays\ 13 - For 840Hz displays\ 14 - For 900Hz displays\ 15 - For 960Hz displays It's important to note that **BFI cannot be set to ON if using the G-sync/Freesync compatibility option** (otherwise known as VRR). The VRR option can be very beneficial for games that run at a non-60hz frequency (many arcade games for example) to preserve game timing. For such scenarios, advance users can create a CUSTOM resolution in Windows using [Custom Resolution Utility](https://github.com/radamar/Custom-Resolution-Utility-ToastyX) to set as close to the mathematically correct a frequency that is a multiple of the one the game needs. For example MK1, 2 and 3 run at around 54.7 FPS, so you need approximately 109.4Hz to work with BFI if using a 120hz monitor and the first setting in Retrobat.