Originally posted by: Ogewo
Someone please correct me if I'm missing something, but a 9800 Pro beating a 5900 Ultra, even if by huge margins, seems insignificant when you're still getting an average of 60 FPS.
Shock! Lets all panic, we arnt getting 200+ fps average in a game. Someone put the world on a state of emergency!.
Who gives 2 sh1ts if its 60fps? 30fps is all thats needed for 99% of people to percieve it as smooth(the 1% is for the people who will no doubt question this)
Some benchmarks showed the 9800 Pro averaging 70fps or a little higher, but the low fps will still be unplayable-- 20-30fps.
As above 30fps is all thats needed.
Hell, ive seen Splinter Cell hit 25fps on my rig, and its still smooth.
Not a little choppy or have poor visual quality, UNPLAYABLE.
You really are speaking out of your league here.
How about at 1280x1024? 40fps average!?
As above and before, 30fps is all thats needed. I, and most of the people here would be more than happy with 40fps in any game.
Its like buying a GF2 right now to play UT2k3.
And whats wrong with that? the GF2s can run UT2K3 well. Just not in high res and at the stupidly high frame rates that you want.
Games are not fun when they're choppy. Top-of-the-line video cards are not worth buying if they play games unsmoothly.
So your saying that if you buy a 9800 now, then in 2 years you`d still expect 100+fps in games?
Games evolve, its only a matter of time till we`re getting frame rates in HL2 and D3 at over 200fps, and another game to be released that slows everything down to lower frame rates.
Am I wrong to think we're still one or two generations of video acceleration hardware away from playing HL2/Doom3 at acceptable quality and framerate?
Yes. We are at that level now.
We`ve seen in benchmarks that many cards out today can run both HL2 and D3 very well. We`re seeing the 9800s pull 60-70fps in some of the more chaotic scenes of HL2, and the 5900s run D3 at 60+fps.
FPS does not make a game, and as ive said 30fps is all thats needed. You are trying to comment on something that you dont fully understand. Sure you know what fps stands for and what it means, but you still think that anything below 100fps is bad, when it is not.
Let me ask you a question?
Have you played GTA:VC or GTA3, or even C&C Generals?
Im guessing that you have, and it was probably pretty smooth with no jerkyness?
Well guess what? Shock!!! All 3 are locked at 30fps by default!