Thoughts about my GPU choice

What I do is:

I put some money together, then I search around what's the best card I can get for that money, from both AMD and Nvidia, then buy the best one (reading tons of reviews), that's why I got an HD 7950 back in 2012, it was the best for that price.

 

Back in the days of playing lots of America's Army, the days of Pentium III and 3dfx cards, I used to struggle to hit 30fps in that game yet I was still an incredibly good player, on par with people who had machines pumping out a steady 60fps. I think framerate is just a placebo and I know from my own experience that you don't need the best and fastest computer to be an excellent player in a particular game.

 

Good for you? I wish I had 120hz or 144hz monitors, as I can still see a massive difference when going over 60fps... maybe you're just blind.

 

Sure, you can be an excellent player with 30 fps. 60 fps would've allowed you to get that much better though. When it comes to a competitive level, the difference between 60hz and 144hz can make a big difference.

 

Here is something I learned in freshman year of highschool. It shouldn't be hard to understand. To disprove something you only need one counterexample. That means the fact that I can see over 30 fps disproves you thinking that it's a placebo. Now, I also can't say that under 60 makes a difference for everyone. People see colors differently, it shouldn't be that hard to understand how framerate could be seen differently.

 

Well considering my 20/20 vision score only stands at 20/20 because my optician didnt have the slides available to test to better scores (not kidding, they do exist), I doubt I am blind.

 

So looking at a still set of images is the same type of blind as watching moving images? I tried playing Halo 4 after gaming on a high end PC for about a year, and was only able to play for about 3 hours before the low framerate actually made me run to my bathroom and vomit. I tried again the next day, and quit when I started feeling queasy after about two hours. Haven't touched it since. Probably worth noting I do get motion sick as well.

I think I'll just leave this here.



Enjoy your so-called placebo effect. Diminishing returns? Abso-friggin-lutely. Placebo? Nope.

 

I want to see him do a test between 120hz and 144hz. I think 144hz is bull. I know you can tell the difference between 120 and 60, but a 24fps increase doesn't seem like it would be noticeable.

 

It's noticeable.

 

It's like the difference between 60 and 72fps when in 3D.

 

But that's 3D. I'm just talking regular.

 

In my experience. playing all sorts of games on PC and console, the difference between 30 FPS and 60 FPS is noticeable, but not debilitating (however everything less than 30 FPS is headache inducing. Seriously, if a movie is 28 FPS vs 30 FPS it's night and day ).

For me both settings (30 vs 60) are smooth and responsive but it's just a matter of speed. Games running at, say, 120 FPS seem faster than games running at 30 FPS. This is noticeable in BeamNG - when running at 18 FPS in BeamNG I felt the cars handled poorly - they would fly off the track whatever I did. They also seemed dead slow. Now that I play at 60 FPS the vehicles handle great and are surprisingly fast.

This effect is most likely input lag and a lag between events, causing higher frame rates to have less latentcy

 

Oh shit
I started a flamewar

 

That would be because beamng throttles in-game time after 20 fps. So instead of the physics updating at 2000 times a second it will drop to 1800 or even 1300.

I love that gif.

 

Inputs are fully decoupled from frame rate in most modern games. You complain about movies at 28 vs 30fps, did you know almost all movies are actually 24fps.

 

i miss the days were we just played Tomb Raider on my old Athlon K7 with a Radeon 8500 with 128MB on low settings and enjoyed the game ....

today people like "oh ma gawd i got like 570 FPS in Minecraft" ..... kids these days

my personal thoughts:
on my two Asus Screens (60HZ) everything under 30FPS is laggy in my opinion, everything over 60 FPS is no difference
on my single Asus (120HZ) i see differences between 60 and 75-80FPS after there no difference again. But overall the 120HZ Screen feels less laggy even in office and webbrowsing.

and loled hard on the abonden thread gif fuggen saved
-Marco

 

A little bump to tell you I'm going for a GTX 870/880. So this debate can finally go to rest.