SUBSIM Radio Room Forums - View Single Post - No matter what I do, I can't get any fps improvement

piersyf · 04-23-08, 01:18 AM

I read through the 100fps site data, and most is accurate. I totally agree with the notions that blurred images in movies contribute to the smoothness. Even in the old Starwars movies the stop motion animations were laboriously hand blurred to make them smoother.

I am curious about something though. If your monitor scans 72 cycles per second (mine is 72Hz), what's the point in having a higher FPS? Surely that would be outside the physical capability of the monitor to reproduce? In other words, your FPS may be 200, but the monitor only changes 'frames' 72 times per second...

Also, anti-aliasing adds the blur factor to pixels, reducing the visual appearance of jerkiness. I can't run it on my system (FPS drops to 9), so I have nice sharp images at 15FPS. I definitely see the little jerky motions, but the game is still playable. Considering the choice for me is deal or stop playing SH4, I deal with it...

04-23-08, 01:18 AM	#47
piersyf Mate Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: australia Posts: 52 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	FPS and refresh rates... I read through the 100fps site data, and most is accurate. I totally agree with the notions that blurred images in movies contribute to the smoothness. Even in the old Starwars movies the stop motion animations were laboriously hand blurred to make them smoother. I am curious about something though. If your monitor scans 72 cycles per second (mine is 72Hz), what's the point in having a higher FPS? Surely that would be outside the physical capability of the monitor to reproduce? In other words, your FPS may be 200, but the monitor only changes 'frames' 72 times per second... Also, anti-aliasing adds the blur factor to pixels, reducing the visual appearance of jerkiness. I can't run it on my system (FPS drops to 9), so I have nice sharp images at 15FPS. I definitely see the little jerky motions, but the game is still playable. Considering the choice for me is deal or stop playing SH4, I deal with it...