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Can you tell the difference?

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Yes, clearly. But only in fast moving games like Racing games. And in FPS games if your playing with a mouse.
I don't really care, 60 fps is nice, but unless I'm playing a racing game or using a mouse it doesn't really take anything away from the experience.



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Nsanity said:

Anyone with a working pair of eyes can tell the difference between 30FPS and 60FPS.

This. I was going to phrase it a little differently but this is very much what I was going to say.



pariz said:

Not exactly your videos but this helps:

very nice! ty for posting this. It makes a lot of sense now.



Sorry... but no video here show the truth about 30 vs. 60fps... all videos just show a slowdown version compared to a normal one.

In fact there are no differece between 30 and 60 fps for humam eyes but the drop from 30 to 20fps is very notiable... not so much from 60 to 50 fps.

My point is the miminum framerate is always good in a game running at 60fps than one running at 30 fps .



kowenicki said:
depends on the genre.

driving games... fast moving fps.. hell yes.

others not so much.

This



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It's very noticeable when rotating the camera or during fast pans. Movies try to limit those types of camera movements as much as possible. That doesn't happen in games and turning the camera too quickly looks pretty bad in most games. Too bad SotC couldn't manage 60fps since the camera in that game is pretty temperamental. It looks stunning though in 1080p at a solid 30fps.

It's not as relevant anymore as it used to be. LCD screens with permanent back light take away all the flicker. When I turn on the old 50hz crt tv nowadays it looks like a strobe light. Between 90hz and 120hz was where the flicker disappeared for me on crt pc monitors. You need a lot less though to correctly interpret motion. 30fps is fine for most games as long as the camera behaves.

You don't notice the difference as much when going forward, and even less if you play in the dark. The easiest way to get a smoother experience is to dial the brightness down and turn off the lights. Your brain will fill in the gaps.

Personally I prefer a higher resolution at 30fps as opposed to half the resolution at 60fps. Too bad console games don't let you choose. Of course double the frame rate doesn't cost any extra memory while 1080p takes 2.25 times the memory of 720p.



nope. only in bad games



ethomaz said:
Sorry... but no video here show the truth about 30 vs. 60fps... all videos just show a slowdown version compared to a normal one.

In fact there are no differece between 30 and 60 fps for humam eyes but the drop from 30 to 20fps is very notiable... not so much from 60 to 50 fps.

My point is the miminum framerate is always good in a game running at 60fps than one running at 30 fps .

Keep telling yourself that.

http://www.gamersyde.com/stream_forza_motorsport_4_demo_rivals-23985_en.html 



ethomaz said:
Sorry... but no video here show the truth about 30 vs. 60fps... all videos just show a slowdown version compared to a normal one.

In fact there are no differece between 30 and 60 fps for humam eyes but the drop from 30 to 20fps is very notiable... not so much from 60 to 50 fps.

My point is the miminum framerate is always good in a game running at 60fps than one running at 30 fps .


Sorry... but you don't know what are you talking about.



Nsanity said:
ethomaz said:
Sorry... but no video here show the truth about 30 vs. 60fps... all videos just show a slowdown version compared to a normal one.

In fact there are no differece between 30 and 60 fps for humam eyes but the drop from 30 to 20fps is very notiable... not so much from 60 to 50 fps.

My point is the miminum framerate is always good in a game running at 60fps than one running at 30 fps .

Keep telling yourself that.

http://www.gamersyde.com/stream_forza_motorsport_4_demo_rivals-23985_en.html

There are no prove (paper or study or anything else)... the framerate beneficio for eyes after 30 is just a myth... but the minimum framerate, when the game drop to below 30fps is evident.

Anyway... most TVs in the world show just 30fps/60Hz (or 25fps/50Hz for PAL).