Driveclub runs at 1080p 30fps

[Alby_da_Wolf]

SvennoJ said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

SvennoJ said:

 

Still not convinced the extra 16ms doesn't matter for response time? Try this http://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime/
See what your response time is in the best of situations, fixating on a big full color change with your finger hovering over the mouse button. I can't get below 245ms, nor am I very consistent, I'm old. Identifying something specific happening on screen and making a decision what to do about it takes a lot longer, that 16ms is negligible.

Those hundreds ms of your reaction time are what you can't reliably decrease, even in real life, but lag due to framerate always adds to them. 16ms can be little more than 6% for your reflexes, even less for more sluggish people, but they add EACH time you have to react, many times it can be little significant, but it's likely that it will be significant a few tens times per lap, and even if that additional lag doesn't always turn 1:1 into a penalty on your lap time, you can end up having between a few tens and a few hundreds ms penalties for each lap.

It doesn't add up while racing. You anticipate turns (and movements of other cars for that matter) You don't suddenly respond to them when they unexpectedly show up. When you're shaving off lap times, you get in the zone, it becomes like programmed behaviour. In the end you can almost do it with your eyes closed. That 16ms has nothing to do with setting better lap times.

If you are alone on the track and if you know very well it, you can anticipate. If there are other cars and/or you haven't enough time to race on each track enough times to know it well enough, you'll have to do corrections at the last moment, and the same will happen each time you reach the car's road holding limits, if for any reason you'll have to force the car further due to other competitors unpredictable actions or simply making impossible to follow the ideal trajectory or if the car's limits decrease, due to the racing sim being accurate to the level of simulating changes of weather and temperature, tyre wear, etc. In these cases you'll be able to anticipate less and that additional lag will add up, the best that will happen is that if you'll anticipate as well as possible and need smaller corrections, most probably that lag will translate in a penalty on the lap time a lot smaller than 1:1 with the lag itself.