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How many FPS can you actually see?

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As above, I'm wondering how many frames per second your eye can see.
I was never too good at biology (except certain bits) and my limited understanding is that the brain will register more even if you yourself do not notice (if you see what I mean).

Part of me is trying to reason that I do not need 200fps in BF4 as I won't be able to register more than 150 (I'm exageratting of course, but hopefully you'll see my point). I'll get smoother game play but is there a limit?

I know people are different too which is why an ex of mine felt sick after playing certain games (this is common apparently).

Your thoughts?
 
Scientifically? No idea, all I know is there is a clear difference between 30fps and 60fps. But once over 60fps I don't notice any particular increase in the smoothness of the animation.

Not sure if it's the same for everyone though, some people claim that there is a clear difference between 60 and 120fps but I personally couldn't tell.
 
Not sure but I don't see the difference from 50+. Yet I worry about OC'ing my GPU to maintain as high as possible.
 
My eyes must be a bit crap. Once the frames drop less than about 26ish, i do notice a stutter, but anything above that i can live with really.
 
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We Humans don't see in Frame per second unless we have Robot Camera eyes. :D

When playing games at high FPS it's more about feel and motion flow so 60fps vs 120fps feels and looks more smooth.
 
Visually the gains from higher framerates drops off steeply for most people once you get above 80fps. At 200fps very very few people will be able to take any advantage from it and the advantage will be so marginal it will have very little real application.

However there are 2 other aspects of it:

You can "feel" the difference in how smooth and responsive things are much more apparently than you can see the difference - a lot of people can tell the difference even down to single digit milliseconds when something is delayed behind their action though again most people's sensitvity drops off above ~80fps but to a lesser extent than visually - a lot of people will still feel it upto 120fps a large number upto around 144fps and a fair few even upto 200fps.

Some game engines will have oddities at certain framerates or perform better or feel more consistant when locked at certain framerates or rendering above certain framerates due to various maths issues i.e. rounding bugs or precision. (Quake 3's engine being one of the more commonly known ones where locking at certain framerates i.e. 125 allowed you to get slightly more out of the physics engine due to rounding errors in your favor).

EDIT: Personally I consider 120fps/120Hz the sweet spot but no harm going to 144Hz/144fps above that I don't really consider there to be any real world advantage - however going higher may be worth it if you need to to get 120fps all of the time even worse case.
 
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if you can tell the difference you can see it right?
im sure if you have 2 screens side by side, one at 100fps, the other at 200fps you can tell which is which
same with 200-400fps i bet too :)
 
Inb4 someone comes in here saying films are only 24fps therefore anything higher is wasted.
 
Zefan said:
Inb4 someone comes in here saying films are only 24fps therefore anything higher is wasted.
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That's fine for a passive medium like film - but a game environment reacts to your virtual movements, and your brain is a lot more sensitive when trying to perceive direct motion as a consequence of your actions.
 
It'll vary on the material (the more different a frame from the last, the easier it is to perceive a difference). But the evidence suggests that anything much above 100Hz is not perceivable, while in most cases, 60Hz is where it starts rapidly dropping off.
 
I know people are different too which is why an ex of mine felt sick after playing certain games (this is common apparently).

Your thoughts?
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I get this with certain games. Games such as fear 3 where it moves around then screen.
I even get it with bf4 sometimes which is poo.

As for the fps. I cant see a difference above 60.

Its a funny old world :D
 
I stop noticing the subtle differences at around 560fps.


..nah but really, I'd say it's somewhere around 70-80 that you don't notice anything else. Once you reach 60fps you probably need it side by side to see anyway.
 
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