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Originally Posted by 666th_Lange
I'm using a GTX480 with 1536MB/RAM (together with a i950 CPU and 6GB of RAM) and the performance is crappy. I don't want FPS, i'm looking for smooth gameplay and we are lightyears from that.
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Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding you, but FPS, which stands for Frames Per Second, is DIRECTLY related to smooth gameplay. Full-motion video, or what the eye perceives as smooth, natural motion, is usually a minimum of 30 frames per second...in the early days of making motion pictures, it was found that the optimum speed of the picture frames moving between the camera/projector lens, and the light source, was about 30 per second, to produce full motion video. It gave the best balance between natural-looking motion, and cost of film and developing. The reason you see jerky motion in a lot of older films, particularly during the silent film/World War I era, is that this hadn't yet been standardized, and some cameras had no means for regulating the speed of film advance. Our brains 'fill in' the movement between the frames.
The same holds true when we play games on our computers. To render (draw) motion on your computer, the video card has to generate every single pixel you see on your screen, and if that doesn't happen at least 20-30 times per second, the motion you are seeing is perceived as jerky, or even a slideshow, making it frustrating, fatiguing to your eyes, and causing a subtle form of stress (your brain trying to fill the gaps in the motion). Sometimes things happening which appear to be network lag, are actually video issues caused by a bottleneck in your system, such as a CPU which can't keep up with the video card, like pairing one of the early AMD AthlonII Agena-series quad-core processors and DDR2 RAM, with an HD6970 video card. (Don't ask me how I know, lol.) I would even go so far as to be willing to bet that a large percentage of computer gaming-induced epileptic episodes are caused by photo-susceptible gamers trying to play games on machines which are not really capable.