kyro2 vs geforce 2 ti

[Rahminator]

Some of you people are confused and think that 30fps is smooth because that's the TV's framerate and TV images look smooth. Wrong, due to interlacing every other line is displayed at 30fps, but since it's every other line, when you look at the whole picture it's really 60fps. Personally, any framerate above 60 looks smooth to me, but that's just *my* opinion and everybody's different so your mileage may vary.

 

[yllus]

<< Who here watches TV? Think it's skippy? 30 frames per second is what it's putting out. >>


On a computer CRT, what framerate will give you smooth motion?

"Where your comfort level will be won?t be the same as everyone else?s. A good baseline minimum is thirty frames per second, although those weaned on PAL TV may find twenty five frames per second to be tolerable thirty is still considered to be the minimum. That generally translates out to an average of sixty frames per second using benchmarking methods that don?t report the average, although more intense gamers, particularly those who focus on first person shooters, the limits of human perception are closer to six hundred frames per second if not higher."

I can personally discern between 30 FPS and higher - my TNT2 M64 gave me about 35 FPS at 640x480 in Q3A; when I swapped it out for a GF2 GTS, it was hugely smoother (along with a boosted framerate). I went through this buying decision myself and the only reason to get a Kyro II vs. a GF2 is to be the guy on the block with a unique video card - there's no justification in speed. You have to admire the shot at tile-based rendering ST took here, but it didn't work out as well as anyone hoped in the end.