Nearly every gaming sub I used to go to, I see some of those complaint posts about framerate drops. Yeah, and I’m amazed watching them throw a lot of money constantly trying to keep themselves from drowning below 60fps.
Personally
Low FPS when consistent is perfectly good
Examples being movie (23.9 something FPS) and Anime (anywhere from 24 down to 3 depending on budget scene and style)
For games its a interactive medium so if you are not bang fucking on 33.333ms (30 FPS) or more preferable 10.0ms (100 FPS) it will feel so much worse than any static content that I don’t interact with
I am perfectly fine playing turn based strategy games at lower fps but the moment one needs reactions 60fps is bare minimum
100%, I can get used to Bloodborne at 30fps but I’m never happy with it. It’s painfully noticeable when trying to react to attacks where split seconds matter
If its consistent it can go real low depending on the style of the game. SNES ran 50fps and it was perfectly fine, because the action tended to be slower and you weren’t trying to focus on tiny details because it was all pretty bright and blocky.
I couldnt play Avowed on the Series S because it made me physically sick to turn the camera.
The thing most noticeable about FPS is not when it’s high or low, but when it changes back and forth. There’s a reason most modern games have an FPS cap option, and when you’re used to stable high FPS, sudden drops are very noticeable and jarring.
- A low framerate is not a problem.
- A high framerate is not a problem.
- A framerate changing from low to high is not a problem.
- A framerate changing from high to low is absolutely unquestionably a problem.
A framerate changing from low to high can be a problem in games where the physics engine is tied to framerate. This is less common nowadays, but there are a lot of older games that have an issue when played at higher than 30 or so fps.
I’ve played so much on lower end devices growing up, a stable 20 is fully playable. Even played some games dipping into single digits. 30 is buttery smooth. I can’t tell the difference above that.
As an old timer, the frame rate thing goes over my head. When I played games we had to choose between the mouse or sound as the computer have very little ram, also most games were under 60 fps
Quality Shitpost, 10/10 120fps.
fps dips to 43 every time there is an explosion
Also, an unpopular opinion post.
I find those FPS laughable. They winch and bemoan when their rig can’t throws hundreds of frames per second on their screen. My nephew for example got to play for a while the switch 2 and Mario Kart World. When I asked him if what framerate he plays this game at (handheld mode) he was quite insistent that its 120 FPS…
Yeah the switch 2 couldnt play that game in 120 fps at that time in handheld mode (I believe it still cant). Its all just marketing and self suggestion.
why do you doubt it? the switch 2 has better hardware than the first switch
Doubt? I didnt doubt it, I knew it. And better hardware? Only slightly according to specs (and no OLED screen)
there might be more, but the only games I can think of that have 120 fps in handheld are metroid prime 4 and hades 2
I mean it is pretty rough if you’re used to playing at higher FPS, it’s quite a difference.
If I’m going to play a game I want it to run well. I don’t want hitches, frame drops or other issues.
I tolerated them when I ran on a budget laptop, because it was going to happen. I have a beast of a computer now and I’ll be fucked if it’s not hitting 120+ basically everywhere.
We’re personally still fine with 30 fps (hell, most yt videos are shot in 24fps and old anime’s are 12fps) tho our laptop (a shitty cheapo MSI one before the ram crisis) bounces between 60 and 120fps and we just don’t care
Not a shitpost you fucking mongoloid.
damn why so rude? a “hey OP, this might be a better fit for !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world” would have worked just fine
Why use a fucking slur to insult them you useless prick?
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As someone with a 500hz oled, i panic under 120. 120 is playable, but i usually try to get at least 100 base with 500 after mfg. It’s butter smooth. Even 240hz looks bad after playing at 500.
You “panic”? Wtf dude?
Low FPS with frame gen sucks because the input latency.
Once you’re making 120FPS natively, the additional input latency is under 8ms and it gets even lower as you increase frame rate.
That’s how it works yup
so?
