Your Brain Knows a Lot More Than You Realize

Re:Your Brain Knows a Lot More Than You Realize by Too on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @08:14AM (#3210578)

This is why gamers go berserk when they don't get a monitor with 100Hz refresh rate and a computer that can deliver 100fps. You can really tell the difference, even though studies show that your brain can only react in 20ms and your eyes can't see more than 25fps and blabla. Though i think it's quite well known that the 25fps myth has been busted long ago.

In the near future I guess we will have to live with 60fps, which still is quite good, since that's becoming the defacto standard refresh rate of tvs and monitors. But it's quite sad to see newer games trying to lower the frame rate just for more visual effects, Battlefield 3 for example only runs in 30FPS on consoles T_T

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Re:Your Brain Knows a Lot More Than You Realize by sp332 on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @09:12AM (#3210757)

Actually 24 fps was chosen for film (way back when film was first standardized) because it was the lowest frame rate at which your eyes interpret the separate frames as smooth motion. 60 fps makes a huge difference over 30 fps in a movie.

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Re:Your Brain Knows a Lot More Than You Realize by makmanalp on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @09:02AM (#3210723)

Regarding consoles, it's pointless to have any more than 30fps because the controllers are stupid enough that reaction times are not the bottleneck.

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