I’ve recently had a lot of questions come my way with people saying “Why do I care if a game runs at 60fps?” Well, you should. This is a video comparison of 24fps vs. 60fps. Many games run close to 30fps, so this will give you a good basis of comparison with that and a 60fps game. The video was produced by Kimpix.
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maybe im retarded, but i didnt really see a difference.
Me neither…
The human eye can only see 30 FPS so wtf… I don’t see any difference… The only problem is that a framedrop on 24 FPS will be much more noticeable!
LOL the human eye can only see 30fps? Where’d you pull that out from? AVERAGE human can detect 75fps- experienced PC users can detect about 90-100 fps or “HERTZ” in monitor refresh rate terms. I love the fluidity of high frames per second. Due to money issues, I usually put up with running computer games at low framerates like 30-40 fps. TV console games are capable of a maximum 60fps as that’s the fastest tv’s can update per second. I think LCD pc monitors are all a max 60fps (called the refresh rate). Decent crt monitors can do 90hz pretty easily.
But if you can’t tell the difference between 60 and 30 (watch the split-screen of the ball going left/right) then maybe you have a slow processor/codecs? I don’t know.
If you can’t tell the difference from these web videos, try this: Turn on your tv and watch a sports game/news broadcast, then watch a movie and tell me if you notice the difference.
i couldn’t see it when game play
but with the ball i seen it
It’s easier to see with the ball because of the high level of constrast between the moving ball and the static background. There is a lot more visual “noise” in the gameplay video so it’s harder for your eyes to focus on individual pieces and track their movement.
so where is 24fps with motion blur? I know UT2K4 doesnt support it but without it this video is stupid for saying “anyone who sees 24 fps as smooth is blind” because most games these days come with motion blur.
First of all your eyes DON’T SEE A THING!!!!! its your brain that sees the eyes focus light on light sensitive cells at the back of the eye which in turn send the info along the optic nerve to the brain that’s how hallucinogenic drugs work the PINK ELEPHANTS are not there the brain makes you see them.
I have seen movies with no motion blur on the frames shot in bright daylight that run at 24 frames per second and LOOK SMOOTH the reason for blur in movie frames is a combination of exposure /shutter speed if shutter speed slow an object
is moving fast blur will occur if very bright and shutter speed is fast you will have
very few blurred frames if you look at the the game shown the the 24 fps clip looks
like it stutters after watching the 60 fps clip but when run side by side they both
look smooth if a game runs at a rock steady 30 fps it will look smooth !!!!
As for people being able to detect 90-100hz is probably do to the light in the
room as here in uk for example mains electricty is 50hz so lights will flicker at a different rate from monitor so its noticable similar effect occurs in movies when
sometimes it looks like a cars wheels are rotating backwards as the car moves forwards its revs of wheels in relation to fps of film. Thats my thoughts re this
flame proof suit now on LOL.
Rob.
Guys…
Unreal is fastest game ever… so when you will play this game on hi-skilled… 24fps is crazy …its shit! DM-TAM-ONS need more then 50 .. best is 80 fps. Just for info – this video is maked with framerate max 30fps, so how you can see differense between 34 and max30 fps ?
You should try this video on different game… unreal (coz is extremely fast and the best ) is worst choice for fps testing…
I play UT leagues 6yrs so i know what about im talking
I know this is old but I had to comment. The problem causing people to see very little difference in the example is the movie itself has a frame rate, 60fps (and this online media player might also cut that to 30). This means the the 24fps parts have been converted to 60. For a real comparison, you’d have to watch the footage in 2 different video files, one after the other. Then you’d see true 24 and true 60. Probably best if went back and forth a couple times. You’ll notice that 24 looks more film-like and 60 looks more real (if there’s no movement in the scene, it’ll look the same). When people shoot movies in 24 it’s because they want the “film look”, and don’t want it to look real.
(I’ve also seen people showing low/high def comparisons on youtube. Youtube doesn’t display HD (yet) so there’s no difference. Some “emperors with new clothes” insist they can see a difference.)
I can clearly see the difference between 24 fps and 60. And if you can’t you really should consider getting a new monitor and having your eyes checked.
What about those of us who have been playing games with a low framerate for so long that a high framerate just doesn’t “feel right?”
Well of course you will notice the difference with no motion blur present. But that is precisely how 24 fps movies are *not* done. Ask the Pixar guys, they perfected these things in the 1980’s.
I don’t really see a difference between 24 and 60fps, I can just about notice a difference at 15fps, but not enough that I’d really care. In the above example 24fps looks fine, 60fps looks just as fine because it looks the same.
Even the bouncing ball looks ok at 24fps, there is something artificial looking about the 60fps, it just doesn’t looks “wrong”
there really isn’t much of a difference ask I believe that you limited the FPS in software for this comparison. The big difference when gaming is not just the average FPS, but the jumps in framerate. A constant 24 wouldn’t be too bad. but slowing from 60 to 15 would be. MEh, what do I know, I always have VSync on because tearing annoys the crap out of me.
Too bad the video is running at 20 fps…