I think I'd feel like a millionaire if I ever got 90 on a high refresh monitor. Lol. I like me poor and not too spoiled.
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My personal minimum is a stable 40/s, which is roughly where I start noticing the lower framerate without paying attention to it.
With 30/s I need to get used to it, and I usually underclock (or, rather, power-limit) my GPU to hit an average 50 unless the game in question is either highly unstable (e.g. Helldivers 2) or the game is so light I don't have to care (e.g. Selaco).
For the longest time I thought 30fps is good, but now I always want 60 fps - 50 is my minimum. Id rather drop some shadows, clouds, lighting.
Man, people kill for those clouds and shadows and I'll never understand that. I guess I'm just too old school 😂
30 is acceptable for most games but stuff where the gameplay is mainly the movement itself (platformer, racing, first person shooter) needs to hit 60. I could go lower than 30 for the visuals on a lot of games but that’s the threshold where the interface starts feeling unresponsive and that really gets to me.
For me, it highly depends. Turn-based strategy games, I can easily play at a much lower framerate (30 is fine tbh though I always appreciate more). FPS-style games? 60 is a bare minimum, but 100+ is what I would consider to be enjoyable.
Am I the only one who just plays games and doesn't know what FPS he's getting? If it plays, I'm good.
Or,... maybe I am missing out on something? Lol
i am 100% with you. there must be something to it if it's that important to so many people but i genuinely can't tell the difference as long as it's stable
and if it does make a difference, for competitive games wouldn't you want it to be consistent between all players instead of "better" based on whoever has more horsepower? it all makes no sense to me
I used to be that and I have no idea how and when I started caring. But you know, I'm turning that shit off as of now and will now look at it.
For shooters, especially competitive ones, as high as possible up to my monitor's refresh rate (165Hz). Everything else 60 FPS is fine. Even 30 FPS can be fine, especially if I'm playing something on Switch.
I started playing on a PC in the 90s so as long as it’s above 40 with consistent frame pacing it’s fine. Those VRR displays and games targeting 40 are a game changer for me and why I play on Xbox with a modern LG OLED.
@penquin I never owned a monitor with more than 60 fps cause the newer ones are too expensive.
So I got used to the panels with bad colors and "low" fps. No free sync or gsync just good old vsync 😂
Also not sure if my 3070 would be able to get a 120 fps 2k screen working with high settings for games.
That made me laugh 😂. Simple is always good, as long as you're having fun. 3070 would definitely do even 4k at 30FPS on medium or low. My RX 6600 does that easily on pretty much every game.
@penquin
Well as I said I do want a new one but that's the case for 2 - 3 years now 😂
The fate of a family father. You feel like you should pay for stuff which is more useful for the little ones. So the money is still good invested.
❤️. Bro, that's beautiful. Keep it that way. The guilt starts pouring right away once I think of buying anything for myself. I'm so fucking cheap when it comes to buying shit for myself. You'll find me lurking around the Facebook market place getting the cheapest deals possible, and they get all the good stuff.
Back in the days of CRT displays I had a 120Hz Trinitron, to pair with the video card and 3D goggles (which shuttered each eye in turn) to give 60Hz per eye
No way could that system or video card keep up with anything more modern than Turok 1 but it was nice for the couple of years it was good enough.
I wish I still had that Trinitron, I'd need a deeper desk though
@psud I do like my displays cause they are so old right now and still working. One of them is that old that the most modern connection he got is DVI. To get that working I was forced to buy an adapter for my graphics card.
Because I got two displays the color of them is so different that if I move a window between them to be shown on both I can visually see how broken the colors are on both of them.
The also have issues with ghosting if there are fast movements. I still like them.
I have to keep a VGA connected monitor for my old machines - the oldest drives it at CGA. That monitor is an old LCD
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@penquin does it have to be first person? If third person is allowed I'd say Warframe. If not, classic Doom with mods
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