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Forums - Nintendo - Digital Foundry complains about Mario Kart 8 dropping to 59 FPS.

Guys, they're not complaining about it, they simply mentioned it. It's their job to do so. They specifically say that most probably won't even notice it visually and that it has zero effect on the gameplay - not to mention all of the positive things they say about the game.

It'll be unfortunate if I do notice it a little (only because I'm a sucker for the appearance of a silky-smooth frame rate) but needless to say, it's not a big deal.



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impertinence said:
I have heard about this Digital Foundry before, but now it becomes clear, these guys are not gamers, they are technophiles.
In my opinion, articles like this has no value on a gaming website.

Perhaps your comment has no place in a thread clearly discussing a DIgital Foundry technical analysis article?



Cleary397 said:

I guess the guys at DF have super human eyes that can detect a 1 frame drop.

Yes, so surprising that people who analyze technical video details for a living have more sensitive perceptions than random consumers.
Oh the tyranny of people who are remarkably good at one specific thing!



the-pi-guy said:
bigtakilla said:

The formula would look like this

2/60=1 second

then you want to reduce, what you do to one side of the equal sign, you have to do to the other

(2/60)/2=1 second/2 (when reducing you reduce both sides)

That would give us 1/30th of every half second will be the same. Saying 30fps doesn't account for the other frames in that second. If we were to just account for the frames that are the same, then yes, but that does not apply to the frame rate as a whole. 

The appearance of 1/30th of a frame rate (that just applies to the similar frames) would appear at the very end of every second.

frames/seconds= frame rate.  

Your units are wrong.  

2 frames * 1/60th of a second = 1/30 frames/second or frames per second.  

Now back to your other thing.  

3/30 = 1/10

(3/30)/3 = 1/10 

See how I didn't have to divide the other side?


Lol, so how does what you wrote here help your case above where you wrote for the first second it will average 60fps, but in the second second there will be 2frames that averages 1/30fps.

The truthvis every second will have the average 1/30 long frame at the end.



Is this really turning into a math thread? xD



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the-pi-guy said:
bigtakilla said:

The formula would look like this

2/60=1 second

then you want to reduce, what you do to one side of the equal sign, you have to do to the other

(2/60)/2=1 second/2 (when reducing you reduce both sides)

That would give us 1/30th of every half second will be the same. Saying 30fps doesn't account for the other frames in that second. If we were to just account for the frames that are the same, then yes, but that does not apply to the frame rate as a whole. 

The appearance of 1/30th of a frame rate (that just applies to the similar frames) would appear at the very end of every second.

I want to try this again.  

When you reduce you don't reduce both sides.  You are simplifying.  

3/30 = 1/10 

I'm going to divide the top by 3 and the bottom by 3.  Or mutliply by 1/3.  

This looks like this.  

(3/3)/(30/3)  = 1/10

3 * 1/3      /  30 * 1/3

3/30 * 1/3/1/3 = 3/30 * 3/3

3/3 is equal to one, this is why you don't have to do anything with the other side, because you don't need any number times 1 is itself.  

What level of mathematics are you in?  If you don't mind me asking.  

Passed college algebra. And that's my point, for every one secong, you'll have two frames that equal 1/30 of a second.



the-pi-guy said:
Einsam_Delphin said:
Is this really turning into a math thread? xD

I'm sorry.    


Never apologize for math!



It will get patched to 60fps is my guess. Now how quick is Nintendo at releasing things for the Wii U? (O0opps! I said to much already, time to leave thread...)



the-pi-guy said:
JoeTheBro said:

Never apologize for math!

You're right Joe.  

Knowedge is power. But I wonder if it runs at 1080p 60fps?... If not it appearantly isn't worth it, lol.



Zekkyou said:
Samus Aran said:

Very noticable? Lol, that's why no one noticed it until DF.

Can't believe people are actually complaining about this.

"most will probably not notice it at all, and it has zero affect on playability"

Look at the post above me. ;)