Does FPS even matter?

TheCenturion · 19 Aug 2008 at 14:13

I am confused :confused:

seeing as the eye can't see more than about 30fps, is there any point in being able to get more than this? Eg: If you are getting 32 fps and you run from point A to point B, will you get to point B any slower than if you were getting 125 fps?

Strife212 · 19 Aug 2008 at 14:14

Here we go

TheCenturion · 19 Aug 2008 at 14:15

I was just curious and asking a question.

Rybo89 · 19 Aug 2008 at 14:15

Aint it 60 we can see?

suitcase · 19 Aug 2008 at 14:16

anant_shah94 said:
I am confused seeing as the eye can't see more than about 30fps, is there any point in being able to get more than this? Eg: If you are getting 32 fps and you run from point A to point B, will you get to point B any slower than if you were getting 125 fps?

lol- can of worms.............. :eek:

subzero · 19 Aug 2008 at 14:16

Grabs some popcorn and a comfy seat

Greebo · 19 Aug 2008 at 14:16

Rybo89 said:
Aint it 60 we can see?

Yep and some people can see above that too. Varies from person to person

bledd · 19 Aug 2008 at 14:17

depends on the game

CS was limited to 72fps, when you type 'fps_max 100' it was tons smoother

Tute · 19 Aug 2008 at 14:18

FPS doesn't bother me unless it's sharp changes, for example, if a game suddenly goes from 60fps to 30fps.

antonusklesk · 19 Aug 2008 at 14:20

25 fps is the point at which the eye can be fooled into thinking what it sees is motion instead of a series of flashing images, but ofcourse as it increases so does the quality, we can tell the difference between 25 fps and 60.

25 is just the opening frequency.

blix · 19 Aug 2008 at 14:22

I can tell up to about 70FPS, and ~30 is very noticeably choppier, so whoever says "30 is all you can see", it's clearly not as simple as that, as least in computer games.

TheCenturion · 19 Aug 2008 at 14:24

Oh, sorry, my ignorance

But back to my original question, running at 30 fps and running at 125, would you get to point b quicker?

bledd · 19 Aug 2008 at 14:26

no

you'd just see 4 times the ammount of frames

on 30fps it'd be more a jumpy movement

personally i'd take fps over quality any day of the week

sanofi · 19 Aug 2008 at 14:27

I'd be surprised if I showed someone a game running and they could tell me the fps if it wasn't choppy.

Also surely given the various programs you can use to display the fps, a certain amount of the differences seen in different fps's is down to the human brain? If you know something is supposed to be a higher fps, then you immediately expect it to be somehow smoother.

Of course technically it is smoother but would there be a perceptable difference between say 40-60fps if you did NOT know the fps on screen.

bledd · 19 Aug 2008 at 14:28

it just is smoother and you can tell

fRostiE · 19 Aug 2008 at 14:29

depends on the person, i personally prefer +100fps on CS though some people will tell you they cant see anything over 30

its lies!

Wayne~ · 19 Aug 2008 at 14:29

If you are running a constant fps such as say 60 for sync then you'd notice a massive difference if it dropped to 30 although if 30 runs smooth in game will work just the same

TheCenturion · 19 Aug 2008 at 14:30

Thanks guys it's less confusing now
EDIT: Need just 2 more posts for the members market...

Snakedoctor · 19 Aug 2008 at 14:31

Pigeons would need several hundred frames per sec or it would look like a slide show to them.

bledd · 19 Aug 2008 at 14:31

basically it's how many times the picture on the screen is updated in 1 second.. the higher the fps, the smoother the gameplay