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twesterm on 19 February 2009
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Khuutra said:
twesterm said:
Khuutra said:
twesterm said:
20 isn't good, but as long as it's a smooth 20 and not a drop of something like 26 to 20 it's barely going to be noticeable.

20 is just barely pushing past the edge but the real thing that kills games are framerate spikes. As long as it's a constant 20-ish with the -ish being on the higher side of 20, it's not a huge deal.

I tend to agree with this, but part of me tends to think that the higher end of it is going to be in the 50s, which could be jarring.

Does the game ever go above 30?  If it does they're just wasting their time and processing power.

I actually don't know, as I've never played the game and wouldnt be able to measure it that closely anyway. Anecdotally, from the way people talk about smoothness, it would seem that it does?

If it never went above 30fps, it would really put the whole "better graphics" question in an entirely different light, factoring framerate.

 

Going above 30 on TV there's a slight difference, but there's no point in it being that the trade off totally isn't worth it.  Most games aren't going to notice the difference between a game that runs at 30fps on a TV and another that runs at 60fps on a TV.

Also, if you don't cap your framerate and you're running at lets say a nice 50-60fps and then it suddenly drops to something like 25 it is going to be painfulyl noticeable.  When you cap at 30, dipping down to 25 is absolutely no problem, but going from something like even 40 to 25 will be really noticeable and look and feel like ass.

So there are two reasons why having an uncapped fps on a TV is a bad idea:

  1. Most people aren't going to notice the difference between a smooth 30 and a smooth 60
  2. You're in a much higher danger of noticing frame rate drops.  It's much harder to maintain 50-60fps than it is 25-30fps.

The other reason you don't want to do this is because all that processing power it takes to maintain that really high framerate most people aren't going to notice could be much better spent on *anything* else. 

Would you rather have a feature that most people aren't going to notice or an extra explosion (random example) that everyone is going to notice?