SvennoJ said:
Growing up with low frame rate perhaps. 20 and above was a rarity growing up with PC games in the DOS era. |
Low fps also gets more noticeable as the visual fidelity increases, higher resolutions and pp-effects will make fps drops stand out more. TV sets try to bypass by adding motion blur where the processor can't handle the picture refresh rate frame-by frame and some games do this too, but it looks weird. Sitting on a high-res display with ultra settings makes low fps unbearable, it's also more or less then entire point of buying expensive gaming rigs (as some enjoy doing).
But I agree with your point, I remember PC gaming in the 80's and early-to mid 90's, especially when VGA and SVGA came, the fps counts were dubious at best, and performance rigs or killer graphics cards didn't really exist on the commercial side of things.