FOV and gaming?

compboyo · 30 Sep 2011 at 00:49

Whats ideal FOV?

Does it depend on your screen size and how close you are

whats adv/disadvantages to high/low fov

Especially for online gaming such as BF3

Amnesia · 30 Sep 2011 at 00:54

i think 90 is normal

higher gives a fish eye kinda view....its good for indoors close combat as you get to see a wider view

outdoors it would make it look as if things were much further away

Squark · 30 Sep 2011 at 01:07

80-90 for me

phil675 · 30 Sep 2011 at 01:08

Can't say I've ever changed it.

Zefan · 30 Sep 2011 at 01:11

I changed it for Borderlands, but that's because Borderlands is mental.

Speedy Pete · 30 Sep 2011 at 01:11

Neil79 · 30 Sep 2011 at 01:15

setter · 30 Sep 2011 at 01:23

im using default in bf3, dont know what it is tbh, monitor is a 24" benq fp241w, 1920x1200.

C64 · 30 Sep 2011 at 02:08

varies game to game just play around with the numbers til you get something you personally like

Tediore · 30 Sep 2011 at 02:16

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Battlefield 3's FoV is 70, and can't be changed.

I personally like 90.

Depayse · 30 Sep 2011 at 03:53

Yeah, 90 is average in games. Anything below much below 90 and I get motion sickness personally. It's horrible when a FPS gets released and you can't change the FOV, pretty much ruins it for me.

Final8y · 30 Sep 2011 at 05:17

90-120

lokiss · 30 Sep 2011 at 06:29

110.

Default at 90 i allways felt like i was triping over my own feet

Also made things a little but more manic, sped up q2 gameplay to qw levels/

orderoftheflame · 30 Sep 2011 at 07:29

~85 when I can be bothered. It's never made me feel ill or play noticeably worse not changing it.

'Wes · 30 Sep 2011 at 07:52

Well, apparently the current Beta for BF:3 uses an FOV of 70-75, so going by that, i would say 80-85 is ideal for myself, similar to what i used in BF:BC2 and Crysis 2.

wildman · 30 Sep 2011 at 07:55

during my quake 3 years, me and the clan played with FOV set to 135, took my brain a few days to adjust, but after that it seemed like normal

Sunbed · 30 Sep 2011 at 08:35

90 as that's normally the max for most games.

For any fast paced FPS, I use 110-120. I remember for ET I had a button to toggle between a low FOV and high FOV so it was like a fake zoom

Warbie · 30 Sep 2011 at 08:46

Depends on the game/perspective.

macca672 · 30 Sep 2011 at 10:34

never once changed a FOV in a game.

evilmatt · 30 Sep 2011 at 11:52

FIZD School of Design FOV in Games part1

If only all game developers would watch this instead of insisting on console-level FOV in PC games!