The what do you consider Your Minimum frame rate thread.

jigger · 24 Mar 2010 at 22:17

A lot of benchmarks seem to include a lot of pointless single figure frame rates.

What do you consider your FPS cut off point ?

Rezident · 24 Mar 2010 at 22:20

Depends on the game. Ideally 50-60, but some games e.g. Crysis are playable at 30+.

kylew · 24 Mar 2010 at 22:20

I find it's really dependant on the game itself.

Some games, anything upwards of 30FPS is fine, some games anything below 60FPS feels horrible.

Rroff · 24 Mar 2010 at 22:21

For single player around 40 I will live with, 60+ better, for MP I like 100fps solid.

Broken Hope · 24 Mar 2010 at 22:23

I care more about stable frame rates to be honest, if a game was locked to 30 fps I would be able to deal with it easily.

Frame352 · 24 Mar 2010 at 22:23

Same as above really. In an ideal world, 100+, but depends a lot on the type of game, and whether or not I'm playing online.

ngsavfc · 24 Mar 2010 at 22:26

vsync 60fps...would happily sacrifice some gfx quality to sustain framerate...also hate tearing

Kurisu Makise · 24 Mar 2010 at 22:26

Frame352 said:
depends a lot on the type of game, and whether or not I'm playing online.

this and 60+

arc@css · 24 Mar 2010 at 22:32

As others have said, depends on the game. Generally speaking though I like 40 or over. What's more important for me is the consistency.

For mp I like as much as possible and again, consistency is better than on and off mega high fps.

Neil79 · 24 Mar 2010 at 22:33

50 fps
30-40 rts
50-60 rpg

smallvillehouse · 24 Mar 2010 at 22:37

mine is 25fps i don't get a lot with my card anyway.

Final8y · 24 Mar 2010 at 22:39

Kill_Phil · 24 Mar 2010 at 22:40

a nice stable 40-50 and im happy

manoz · 24 Mar 2010 at 23:53

10, only cos I still have a x1900, won't die so not really saving up for a new card.

Josh P · 25 Mar 2010 at 00:22

I find anything above 25 to be playable, if I've got fraps running I'm more conscious of slow-downs. Having said that, I think there is a point somewhere in the range 40-50 where gameplay becomes completely fluid - above that I really don't care what kind of framerate I get. Playing online I will reduce detail if necessary to get that level of fluidity, but for single player I'm far less fussy. I played through the Harvest Red campaign of ArmA2 on a laptop, I was blissfully unaware I was running at less that 15fps until I installed fraps. Motion blur has a lot to answer for...!

square_nothing · 25 Mar 2010 at 00:40

as long as its a solid 20+ and doesn’t fall right down in heavy action parts im fine.

Echo · 25 Mar 2010 at 02:07

Since switching from CRT to TFT (S-PVA) last year I experience monstrous mouse lag below 60fps so aim for ~70 - removing AA and even dropping from native res if required.

Not really an issue since retiring the GTX though

jigger · 25 Mar 2010 at 02:10

How are you finding the move from the CRT ?

stulid · 25 Mar 2010 at 02:13

I would want the minimum to not drop below the magic 30fps.

jakspyder · 25 Mar 2010 at 02:21

30fps min. ideally 60fps vsynced in fast paced games, games such as dawn of war or total war etc 25-30 is fine.