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Forums - Gaming - What pisses you off more, framerate drops, or screen tearing?

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Which is worse?

Framerate drops 75 58.14%
 
Screen tearing 52 40.31%
 
Total:127
ganoncrotch said:
people here are saying frame rate because you can use X to fix screen tearing, but then that is you saying that you don't like it when you have to suffer frame rate drops but you don't play games with screen tearing, it's not answering the question.

If I asked you which would hurt less, getting shot in the face and getting slapped in the face. if you Answer getting shot in the face because it's unlikely to happen to you because you don't live in an environment with guns... it's just not actually answering.

So in games where you have to suffer either Frame rate drops or Screen tearing affected frames which is worse... for me who games primarily on consoles on a 42inch screen about 5 feet from me it has to be tearing, I actually think that frame dips at some times are used cleverly (exploding boss's in ikaruga anyone?) But tearing during cutscenes I find massively jarring out of the experience, there isn't 2 consecutive frames in aliens:CM on the 360 which don't have some degree of it.

I never have V-Sync enabled on my PC. It locks the FPS to the montior. I rather have the game play at 100+ FPS than at 60fps. Which then gets dipped further when the game is taxed. I see screen tearing all the time. And never cared.



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Below 30 fps is the worst, but above that they are tied.



The one and only answer is FRAMERATE it can damage the gameplay. It is substantial it can destroy every game no matter the genre.
While screen tearing is just cosmetics and has actually no real negative impact on the games.

Obviously I am talking about frames falling below 30 etc not going from 80 fps to 60 in which case screen tearing is the bigger problem.