A friend of mine plays a good portion of console games, and he has a less than average PC, but somehow plays the latest games at "comfortable" framerates to him(he was playing Tomb Raider at 20 fps and said that's perfectly smooth for him). Also, he says he can't tell the difference between 30fps and 60 fps on this site http://boallen.com/fps-compare.html
And that perplexes me ever so. I mean I can understand that he's used to "mediocrity", but I just can't see how he can't notice these things. So I'm wondering if there's a good comparison video of a game in 30fps vs 60fps(not on youtube ofcourse), as I'm curious if he can tell the difference then. Having to download said videos would be fine as well, thanks.
EDIT: nvm looks like his source was just skipping frames in the begining
The one description I would give is that you have to look for ghosting, especially on LCD's. If you can get him to notice the trail left behind by the image as it's going up and down on the 30fps representation vs where there is less of a trail on the 60fps then you have a case
To put it really simply it would be like the game is going in super fast mode, it should feel like things are moving really fast. It somewhat kills the cinematic effect that games sometimes use to look like movies. If your friend is somewhat slow
and he cannot pick up things moving fast then theres not much you can do.
Best way is to get a 100Hz+ monitor and show a game without frame limiters (ie. v-sync) vs when its capped at 29/30
20 fps is not smooth, he probably just had vsync on and no stuttering issues whilst having everything maxed with vsync. You need 60+ frames for a better gaming experience.
Playing at 20 frames is basically playing in slo-motion. Go onto WoW and do that to your frrames (easily achieved with downsampling to max and vsync with ultra shadows), you'll see what I mean.
I never considered that. Didn't know there was a visual ailment that would prevent him from noticing lower frames. I wish I would have such a thing so I wouldn't have to buy more expensive hardware haha.
@ everyone,
thanks for the recommendations, will show him and report back on what he says.
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