re: Starfield Info/Discussion Thread

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I'm pretty clueless when it comes to this 30 FPS vs 60 FPS thing. I know people always talk about it and then the game comes out and I just play it and I think the game either sucks or it doesn't but it never regards what I am visually seeing if that makes sense. Is it because I'm not 2 inches from a screen?

Can anyone recommend a YouTube video maybe explaining it? I have just always ignored that stuff and just played the game. Maybe I'm just that old guy growing up on the NES so anything to me visually is still amazing?

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No, resolution matters far more in questions of distance. Low framerate can make the game look more like a slideshow than smooth action. With that said, the dirty little secret is that a stable 30fps will generally look better than 60fps that frequently dips to 50fps. Your brain will register that as a "stutter" more easily than it can notice the lower framerate. But, if you get low enough, things will look like a slideshow no matter how stable the framerate is. Anything below about 50fps becomes annoyingly noticeable to me, but that's purely personal opinion.

In short, all things equal, more frames = more better. But outside of extremes, stable framerate is more important than high framerate.