Single player games @ 120hz with controller?

VincentHanna

VincentHanna

VincentHanna

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So I tend to play PC games on my OLED TV at 4K 60hz from the sofa, with an Xbox one controller in hand.

And though 60fps is preferable, I'm more than happy playing console games like God of War on PS4 Pro at locked 30fps (as long as the game is good enough)

But my OLED TV also accepts a 1080p/120hz signal. I've been doing a bit of bench-marking at 1080p to test a new CPU purchase but are there any single player games that people can recommend where I might actually notice the difference in frame-rate at 120hz vs 60hz?

Or does the benefit only apply to twitch multiplayer shooters that use quick mouse movements/flicks?
 
Any racing game has a massive edge with this.

Any fast paced shooters like doom/twitch games ect will still feel miles better at 120hz with a controller than 30/60 does.

EDIT : Also platformers. Stuff like supermeatboy again have a huge edge with higher frames.
 
If the TV accepts 120hz at 1080p on pc you can play 4k 120hz with DSR surely? Would motion not improve beside the feel? This is how i play my games when i use a controller i use Nvidia DSR x4 with 0% smoothing to play 4k 120hz with a controller and my monitor is 1080p 120hz as well. Infact i call it the mini oled because of the quality of the FG2421.


Also in all my years of gaming since Simon the Sorcerer 120hz with a controller at 4k is the best thing ever there is nothing that compares with the smoothness and feel. Even 240hz with a mouse has to sit down for that badboy.
 
Motion clarity will improve slightly (though debatable because higher resolution helps with that as well) but it's absolutely not worth it. Without a mouse, and without a real dangerous AI, it just doesn't do much. The great thing about high hz is precisely that it allows you better control & to maximize your reaction time and not be bound by the hardware limits as much. In SP games this simply isn't the case. Even in something like Doom, with a mouse, you aren't going to need that reaction time simply because at the highest difficulty you'll be more doing it as a memorised execution plan rather than being reactive.

High hz is simply one of these highly overrated things in gaming, but outside of games where you need to be highly reactive (eg song beat games) it just won't do enough. And with a controller? Forget it.

Of course, some people are very sensitive to motion, so for them the gains will be much bigger, but not for 99% of people.

Source: me, testing out 1440p/1080p 120hz for ages on my XF90.
 
I can't say I noticed much difference in Forza Horizon 4 when I played it for an hour just now.

Other than it looked noticeably worse and HDR didn't kick in for some reason...I think I'll stick with 4k/60.
 
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