Choppy experience at anything under 60FPS

[chivs688]

So I'd just like to preface this by saying I'm far from picky when it comes to graphics in games, and much prefer a smooth experience to having the best textures and shaders etc.

That said, when playing any game, as long as the framerate remains at 60FPS (I use the Adaptive V-Sync in the Nvidia control panel to cap it at 60) then it is beautifully smooth and all is good.
However, if the framerate drops to anything from 59fps to below, the game instantly gets very choppy and 'laggy'.

Now I also play on consoles, and the majority of games on them run at 30FPS, and honestly I'm not bothered by it much at all, don't even really notice it. Yet 30FPS on my PC is far from the same. I've tested it by capping games at 30 on my PC, and it is not nearly as smooth as it is on consoles.

Like I said, I'm not picky and am not an expert in graphics or anything, so anything small I wouldn't even notice, yet even when the framerate falls to just say 57 from 60, it is very and instantly noticeable.

I see people playing games where their framerate will hover between say 30 and 50 FPS, and it seems perfectly fine for them, and watching it looks pretty fine too. But I could never play a game like that on my PC, every time I turn it's just so choppy it's frustrating. Yet at 60 everything is perfect..

So, do I have some sort of issue? A wrong setting somewhere?

Specs:
LG W23361V monitor (60Hz)
i5-2500k
GTX 480
4GB Ram

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

 

[bystander]

What game(s) are you feeling this way about and have you tried it with normal v-sync? With adaptive v-sync, when your FPS drop below your refresh rate (60 in your case), v-sync is turned off.

The big difference between consoles and PC's with regard to FPS, is that the PC uses the mouse for an input device, and we are much more sensitive to latency when using a mouse.

 

[chivs688]

What game(s) are you feeling this way about and have you tried it with normal v-sync? With adaptive v-sync, when your FPS drop below your refresh rate (60 in your case), v-sync is turned off.

It's the same with every game. Yeah I've tried with V-Sync On, Off and Adaptive and the issue is exactly the same.

 

[bystander]

You may be much more sensitive to change than many. I can say that a 120hz monitor does help in this regard, but it may not be good enough for you still. Perhaps a FPS limiter, or lower your settings so you don't drop below 60 FPS.

The mouse does make me a lot more sensitive to drops below 60 FPS too. As a result, I got a 120hz monitor and try to maintain above 80 FPS.

 

[chivs688]

You may be much more sensitive to change than many. I can say that a 120hz monitor does help in this regard, but it may not be good enough for you still. Perhaps a FPS limiter, or lower your settings so you don't drop below 60 FPS.

The mouse does make me a lot more sensitive to drops below 60 FPS too. As a result, I got a 120hz monitor and try to maintain above 80 FPS.

The thing is though that I'm fine with playing at 30fps on my console, and never even knew anything about frames when I build my gaming PC. Yet when I cap my FPS on my PC to 30, it's far more choppy than my console experience.

And even just dropping to like 55fps, the difference is incredibly noticeable, yet as soon as it hit's 60 again, the game is buttery smooth.

I just watched a gaming stream where the player did a benchmark of a game before starting it, and got something like 35fps average, and he was happy with that and jumped into the game with those settings. But thinking about doing that on my PC literally makes me cringe, if I played it like that it would be incredibly choppy and frustrate me like crazy. And yet on the stream the game was nice and smooth, looked just as if it were being played on a console..

 

[bystander]

There is a big difference between the controls of a console and PC. If you play a game on a PC, and use only the keyboard to turn, you can tolerate far lower FPS than with a mouse in hand.

It isn't that the video output isn't smooth, it is that it feels laggy. That is because with a mouse, your mind and body is far more connected to what you see than when you push a button and wait for it to turn.

I can play PC games at 30 FPS just fine, as long as the game does not change your view by moving the mouse. As soon as I change the view using the mouse, mostly in 1st person views, I get nauseated quickly. As soon as I get to 60 FPS, I feel far less laggy and nauseated, but I do feel it slightly and when I hit 80+ FPS on a 120hz monitor, it goes away entirely.

But on the off chance this is not your issue (it is mine), make a video and post it. You could even watch someone else play. That has no adverse affects to me, it only feels terrible when I am controlling the action with a mouse.

 

[Nortabun]

Sorry for reviving a 2 year old thread here, but i'm also getting this problem here and i'm seriously running out of solutions. when the game drops to anything under 60 fps it becomes extremely choppy especially camera movement. Drop to 40 fps and it becomes unplayable.

 

[bugay]

Sorry for reviving a 2 year old thread here, but i'm also getting this problem here and i'm seriously running out of solutions. when the game drops to anything under 60 fps it becomes extremely choppy especially camera movement. Drop to 40 fps and it becomes unplayable.

got the same problem too :/

my specs
intel i3 4160
gtx 750ti
8gb ram

 

[Tyler Brajkovic]

Did you fix this? I have the same problem!