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On Tue, 06 Sep 2016 09:14:28 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Mon, 05 Sep 2016 10:52:01 -0400, Rin Stowleigh
><rstow...@nevrhadgmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Buttery framerates are one of the most overlooked aspect of gaming, a
>>lot of folks don't realize how much the subpar framerates of
>>underpowered GPUs detract from immersion, until they get accustomed to
>>high framerates and then try to go back.  There seems to be the need
>>for a reference point for comparison.
>
>In my experience it's less /high/ framerates and more an issue of
>/stable/ framerates. If the game is jumping from 15 to 30 to 60fps, I
>notice it far more than if it's a rock-steady 30 (or even 20) fps. 

Stability of framerates are important.  But, for example if you're
getting an solid 30fps, most likely what is happening is adaptation to
the frame rate.  If you played that side by side with a game with an
unwavering 90fps, then went back to the 30fps, assuming it is a game
with a wide mouse movement heatmap (see my other post in thread about
this), you would certainly see the difference if your eyesight is
still good.

About framerates jumping all over, yes this can be a problem without
adaptive sync technology like Gsync, because for example if you're
playing at a buttery 120fps but you keep dropping to 100fps on a
monitor that's refreshing at 120hz, you've got tearing and stuttering
issues to contend with because of the disparity between frame
rendering and refresh rate (noticable in some games and not others).
That's the problem that Gsync/Freesync fixes.

So, once you go with an adaptive frame rate monitor, the game could
fluctuate constantly between 75fps and the upper monitor limit of
144fps (capped there because of the monitor 144hz limit), and you will
never know it because the Gsync board is keeping everything matched
up.  Back to buttery smoothness :)

>Age probably helps too; them youngsters swear there's an amazing
>difference between 30 and 60fps, but I can't see it at all. 

Perhaps but I'm no spring chicken and can confirm the difference is
like night and day :)