What is your minimum FPS acceptence level?

Online games I like 50fps+, but single player I'm not fussed if they run at 25fps, just so long as they dont drop lower.
 
Strife212 said:
I've never been one to notice the difference between 50 and 60 fps.
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You can get accustomed to so some frame rates over time & it makes it more noticeable, even more so when Vsynced & capped were you get used to a constant FPS.

Also the size of the screen changes how you see FPS.

GRID on the my X360 at 30fps on a 20" display with motion blur looked nearly as smooth as GRID on my PC at 60FPS on my 30" display.

Now that i have the X360 on a 50" GRID is barely playable at 30fps for me & i thought there was something wrong with the X360 settings.

The bigger the display the bigger the lateral movement thus the jump between frames are more noticeable. So how many fps a human can notice is dependant on many factors.

It took me a whole day to get accustomed to playing PGR4 at 30fps.
 
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After playing Gears of War on the PC with the consistent 60+ fps, then playing it on the 360 at 30, i genuinely pulled a EURGH face, it just didnt sit right with me. Never had that problem with the countless hours i put into it before playing it on PC :p
 
BoozerDawg said:
After playing Gears of War on the PC with the consistent 60+ fps, then playing it on the 360 at 30, i genuinely pulled a EURGH face, it just didnt sit right with me. Never had that problem with the countless hours i put into it before playing it on PC :p
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Same here.
I was disappointed when i hooked up the X360 to the 50" with so many games running at 30FPS & lack of AA" Ignorance was bliss.
The PC will be getting hooked up to the 50".
 
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Langlest said:
it depends on the game for me, i can put up with 30 but in some games it has to be 60

i always stick all the settings to max when i first run a game (minus any aa options) and if i cant play it like that then i wont go near it again until i have a system that can run it
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I do this. I generally don't play through games more than once so when I play them I like to have everything turned on and at least 4xAA. I don't mind waiting 6months or a year till I get the hardware to run it properly, the game isn't going anywhere....
 
Depends on the game, most console ports are designed to run at 30fps and feel ok but I prefer 60fps for source based games and racers.
 
I'm no FPS snob :p

If I'm enjoying a game then it's all good to me... take GTA4 - the FPS is rubbish on my PC, but the gameplay is so much fun I'm still playing it 6 months on.
 
Never really gave it much thought tbh, if a game feels a bit sluggish ill just play about with the settings till i find a nice compromise.
 
This thread reminded me of about 10 years ago me and a mate would link up two PS1's and two tv's and play Command and Conquer (Retaliation I think) and once we built bases and around 100 mammoth tanks we would attack. As soon as you gave that order, we got about 1 frame every 3 seconds! It was class once the order was given we would go do something else for half an hour before the tanks got to the other base haha.

These days I guess that would be considered unacceptable....

As for this thread, I have no idea about frame rates, I just play the game, if its a bit jerky i turn off some options....
 
I'm not obsessed with numbers unless I'm benchmarking/oc'ing my gpu or cpu.

Generally I go by sight so who knows what I'm happy with, obviously games like slow paced rts or rpgs it can be lower than a racing sim. I just adjust the settings if it starts looking a bit slow. As alluded to some posts back, over 60 fps is pointless anyway most of the time, if you have a 60hz screen.
 
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