What fps do you game at?

[sheepsnowadays]

Hey I am just wondering what fps everyone games at. I hear people saying 30 fps is unacceptable but don't consoles run at 30 fps. IMO i cannot tell the difference between 30 fps and 60 fps. When I am gaming I choose better graphics at ~40fps then lower graphics at 60+ fps. I am wondering what your guys thoughts are on the sweet spot in terms of fps and graphics quality is and what fps you aim for?

 

[hizodge]

Depends on the game. If I'm playing an online competitive game or a shooting game, I prefer the FPS to be as high as possible as long as there is no tearing. Games like Skyrim, TW: Shogun 2 or XCOM for example, I can play at lower framerates, but I still rather have constant 35+ FPS.

 

[06yfz450ridr]

i used to play @ 60 fps with vsync until i changed my refresh to 75 and locked it there. bf3 seems much smoother. 550ti sli haha ultra @ 1440x900 yes not the best resolution but they play good at that and hold 75 constant and only drops when i get killed

 

[dscudella]

I like to stay above 40 FPS. It's weird, on my PC anything less than 40 seems laggy but when I play on my Xbox it only runs at 30 FPS and doesn't seem nearly as bad as 30 FPS on PC.

 

[J_E_D_70]

Google is my friend! This is old by still relevant apart from adaptive. It explains what I was asking about earlier wrt framerates lower than your vsync rate.

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=928593

 

[determinologyz]

My opinion i can tell a difference between 30 and 60 frames. 60 just feels smoother/responsive and 30 feels jittery between frames i cant explain it but theres a difference. As the games ive played on xbox then playing the exact game on pc at 60 frames i would never go back on consoles or 30 frames unless i had to for some odd reason.

 

[Derza10]

Google is my friend! This is old by still relevant apart from adaptive. It explains what I was asking about earlier wrt framerates lower than your vsync rate.

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=928593

Yup that is why adaptive vsync is so awesome, and to me a pretty big advantage over the AMD cards.

 

[mohit9206]

60 fps is the magnum opus of ultra smooth gaming. but not everyone has the hardware to run the latest games at 60fps on highest settings.
so 30fps is where i aim at minimum. 30fps is very playable and i have no problem with games running at 30fps but its when games dip from 30 to 20's or 10's thats when the problem arises.

 

[determinologyz]

http://boallen.com/fps-compare.html

 

[J_E_D_70]

Disregard that link (maybe) - guy on the last page of the thread tears apart most of the original post.

Even towards the end there, someone saying TF2 is smoother at 200fps on a 60Hz monitor. I'd like to see an authoritative explanation of how that could happen without really bad tearing.

 

[Azn Cracker]

as long as the minimum does not dip below 30 fps, im good. I aim for an average fps of 45-50 though.

 

[J_E_D_70]

My eyes are full of fail. I followed determinologyz' link and can't discern a difference between 30 and 60. Can tell from 15 to 30 tho.

 

[determinologyz]

My eyes are full of fail. I followed determinologyz' link and can't discern a difference between 30 and 60. Can tell from 15 to 30 tho.

Its there..when the block is spinning in the air it looks smoother when its rotating 60 fps compared to 30 and you dont see as much jerkyness overall

 

[dscudella]

My question to those with the video card & monitor to achieve it, is can you see a difference between 60+ FPS on a 120hz monitor?

 

[unoriginal1]

http://www.100fps.com/how_many_frames_can_humans_see.htm

It's different for everyone as nobody's eyes / mind are the same IMO.

For me... As long as it's a smooth 30fps + I'm fine. And i used to play competitively now a days just a pub when I find time. It never affected how good I was between 30 - 60 to 120 or w/e i was at.

 

[JamesSneed]

My opinion i can tell a difference between 30 and 60 frames. 60 just feels smoother/responsive and 30 feels jittery between frames i cant explain it but there's a difference. As the games ive played on Xbox then playing the exact game on pc at 60 frames i would never go back on consoles or 30 frames unless i had to for some odd reason.

Same for me. I can't see a visual difference between 30-60 fps but can feel it in game play. It really does impact fast paced shooters but MMO's not so much at least not until you are under 30 fps in MMO's. I usually try to tweak my settings so I stay over 60 fps at all times in shooters like BF3.

 

[paulemannsen]

100 fps @ 100Hz on a crt. i might go lower if its a non competitive game.

 

[Derza10]

I can tolerate anything with minimum framerates of 25 or better, though I prefer 40-60 constant.

I don't really play multiplayer games anymore, but I need ~45fps minimum in multiplayer FPS games.

And I think it's complete BS that anyone would be unable to tell the difference between 30 and 60fps... if you put two side by side screens, gaming, with one at 30 and one at 60 fps, every single person not legally blind would be able to tell which is which.

Not everyone sees the same frame rates, MOST people will be able to tell but i would not be surprised if a good 10-20% of people could actually not tell a difference.

 

[dscudella]

Like I said, I don't buy it.

My wife isn't sensitive to this sort of stuff at all... and to test all this a few months back I switched from gaming on my PC to gaming on the Xbox and asked her which one was smoother and she knew right away it was the PC.

Well you're talking about a console running at 30FPS and a PC running at 60+. I hope everyone can tell the difference.

 

[Derza10]

Like I said, I don't buy it.

My wife isn't sensitive to this sort of stuff at all... and to test all this a few months back I switched from gaming on my PC to gaming on the Xbox and asked her which one was smoother and she knew right away it was the PC.

So you are basing your assessment on a sample size of... 2? I think it would be a cool experiment to maybe test 100-1000 people and get some usable results.

 

[sheepsnowadays]

Yup that is why adaptive vsync is so awesome, and to me a pretty big advantage over the AMD cards.

Whats the difference between Nvidia's vsync and AMD's vertical refresh?

 

[Derza10]

Adaptive vsyn from nvidia turns off if you go under the target FPS, say you ahve vsync set to 60 and due to the demands of the game your FPS drops to 40. With adaptive vsync vsync is just turned off and you get the FPS your graphics card can handle putting out(40 fps)... With normal vsync you might see some stutter and then your fps getting set to 30 fps vs the 40 you would get otherwise. That is more or less the difference.

 

[sheepsnowadays]

Hmmm i never noticed any stuttering and i play all my demanding games at around 40 fps (only have 6850) with vertical refresh always on. Actually come to think of it AMD's vertical refresh does exactly how you described Nvidia's vsync

 

[unoriginal1]

So you are basing your assessment on a sample size of... 2? I think it would be a cool experiment to maybe test 100-1000 people and get some usable results.

Same i'd love to see this tested on a large population. 500-1000 at least. I'd bet my monthly paycheck that you get closed to 50% wrong answers on whats 60 fps and whats 30 fps if you used the same set ups (2 pc's) instead of a gaming console vs pc. The hardware should always be the same when doing these tests 😀.

 

[Derza10]

Hmmm i never noticed any stuttering and i play all my demanding games at around 40 fps (only have 6850) with vertical refresh always on.

Well if you turn it off you might see your FPS raise to 45-50.

 

[cookybiscuit]

Depends on the game. If theres no/little aiming to be done (Assassins Creed, Elder Scrolls) then I find 30 to be a bit jumpy but doesn't really effect the gameplay. Shooters need 60 or 120 in my opinion.