The "30fps campaign, 60fps multiplayer" approach

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torok said:

curl-6 said:

If we include everyone who's ever played a game on PC then yes, I agree, 60fps is clearly not the minimum, as plenty of casual players really don't care about framerates as long as they are playable.

Among enthusiast PC gamers though, 30fps is practically as dirty a word as "720p" was for console gamers back in the ResolutionGate days.

Running the majority of console ports at 60fps on PC doesn't require that high end a rig these days.

If you at least turn down some settings. I have a OC GTX970 and it won't get the job done for a good bunch of games.

In the case of a few poorly optimized PC ports perhaps, but an OC GTX970 outperforms consoles by a large margin; Digital Foundry's tests got an 87fps average on Battlefield 4 at 1080p and Ultra settings, while on PS4 the game runs at 900p with a mix of low, medium and high settings. Heck, the 970 will even let you run the game at about 40fps in 4K at high settings.

DF were also able to get Star Wars Battlefront running at 1080p/60fps on a GTX 780, a substantially weaker card, with everything but shadows set to Ultra.