Framerate and Smoothness Query

chivs688

chivs688

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I've always had somewhat of a paranoia what it comes to things working as they should, and one of those things has been the smoothness of the games I play.

Today I was watching a stream of a game which I play often, and couldn't help but notice how incredibly smooth the motion of everything was. So for comparison I jumped into the game myself, and sure enough it isn't nearly as smooth.

Now I get over 200fps whilst playing, which is the part that confuses me.

Should my game be as smooth as what I was witnessing on the stream? Or is that effect only seen because it is a stream and in reality the game being played isn't like that for the player?

Stream vod link: http://www.twitch.tv/demuslim/b/365063602

Notice the very smooth motion of the units, almost a floaty feel if you know what I mean, whereas for me it is much more rigid and certainly not the same.

Note that I'm fairly sure this is the situation for all my games when comparing a 60fps stream to my personal gameplay experience.

Thanks.
 
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What game would you be playing?

The simple fix for this would be that you don't have V-sync ON. Even though you have such large FPS, V-sync sets your FPS to 60 and make's everything so much more smoother. Screen Tearing is normally elliminated as well.
 
use Vsync. 60 frames per second is more than enough for extremely fast action. your eyes and mind wont be left wanting.

the rest of weirdness you see is limits on your monitor, the game engine (bodged together sometimes), your cpu and ram running the engine, and all that.
 
game engines like a lot of room to breath, so having you cpu complete the subroutines quickly lets the engine run at very low latency (snappy). If you trying to run a modern engine with all the bells and whistles the latency of the engine will suffer even if it appears to running at a fluid 60fps and appears to have headroom.

the big companies like intel, nvidia ect lobby game devs and even pay for programmers to dev for them in the studios that their lobbing, so they have optimised/additional anticompetition advantages, these giants are always one step ahead, and always string you along.

buy the fastest crap you can afford (overclocking helps), and drop the in game settings if need be as playing though a perfectly smooth gaming experience is the only the way to play.
 
I appreciate your comments, but I'm not sure you're quite understanding my issue, maybe I'm not explaining myself very well.

That 60fps stream of a game shows smoother gameplay and frames than I get in any game, regardless of whether I'm playing at 60fps or 200fps.

When I play that same game at 200fps, it is not as smooth as that video. If I play it with vsync and so at a constant 60fps it isn't as smooth as that. And I'm fairly sure this is an issue with every game I play. I've never experienced such smooth gameplay, regardless how many frames I'm playing at.
 
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Just to note, this goes for any stream that is 60fps for any game. The gameplay on the stream is so incredibly smooth, even looks as if its going a little in fast motion it's so smooth. Yet no matter what game or apparent framerate, I can't experience this same smoothness in any game.
 
What game are you playing?

Could it have anything to do with how it's been recorded and played back to the viewer which is making it to look smoother? How much difference are we talking?

Is your gameplay more stuttery and laggy compared to theres or is it the overall sharpness of graphics and gameplay? Are all the settings the same as the person you are watching, try lowering them down with v-sync?
 
ThaReaperGuy said:
What game are you playing?

Could it have anything to do with how it's been recorded and played back to the viewer which is making it to look smoother? How much difference are we talking?

Is your gameplay more stuttery and laggy compared to theres or is it the overall sharpness of graphics and gameplay? Are all the settings the same as the person you are watching, try lowering them down with v-sync?
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This happens for every game.

For me gameplay seems to have a lot of micro stutters constantly. It's as if it just skips every other frame (although I don't know if this is actually what it is). Whereas when I watch any 60fps stream or video of any game, it is so much smoother.

I play with every setting on the lowest possible, and have tried with vsync on and off with no real difference.
 
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