| Mr Puggsly said: You start your post with, "no". But we actually agree for the most part. Some 1080p/30fps games would maintain a solid 60 fps by lowering the resolution. |
The problem is that most of those games would not run much above 30fps if they weren't locked, and as such would not run at 60fps by lowering the resolution.
We're talking about games have frame drops below 30 in some cases, meaning their average isn't high enough for that to happen, and then there are games that can be run unlocked but the average isn't high enough for that to happen either.
Resolution is the last resort of PC gamers. When trying to achieve a balance between performance and quality, we customize everything until the right point..except resolution, which remains untouched. The loss of IQ is not worth the "marginal" performance gain. Other things like AA, shadows, AF, particles, etc, have a greater effect on framerate and don't impact IQ.
