VIDEO: [For 120Hz Users Only] True 120fps Game Play Video -- A First!

[Mark Rejhon]

World's First Web-Embedded 120fps Game Play Video!

With my help, Hypermatrix of 120hz.net has successfully created full screen video game play recordings at 120 frames per second! Via an SSD RAID and Geforce Titan's, the system managed to record 120 frames per second uncompressed, and then converted into an MP4 afterwards. Via this forum thread collaboration between myself and Hypermatrix, we have successfully created the world's first publicly released 120 frame per second game play recording! ... Not 30fps, not 60fps, but a true high frame rate 120fps video in real time.

Battlefield 3 video game recording, 28 seconds, 1920x1080p at 120fps, H.264 video:
-- www.blurbusters.com/hfr-120fps-video-game-recording/
8 Mbps version at 30MB download
25 Mbps version at 100MB download

You must be using a 120hz monitor to play these video files at a full 120 frames per second. Tested Players on Geforce GTX 680 in Windows 8 on a 120Hz monitor:

-- SUCCESS: Media Player Classic Home Cinema; perfect playback
-- SUCCESS: Internet Explorer 10; perfect playback (but let it buffer first)
-- SUCCESS: FireFox 24+ Beta; usually smooth playback
-- SUCCESS: Windows Media Player; usually smooth playback
-- SUCCESS: (partial) Google Chrome; sometimes pauses, sometimes perfect. Wait for buffering.
-- UNTESTED; Safari
-- FAIL: Opera
-- FAIL: VLC Media Player

120fps Game Play Video
(Looks like live graphics, looks as if you have a Geforce Titan, doesn't look like a video when playing full screen)

Quotes from other 120Hz users:

I just watched it, and it was amazing, I've never seen such fluid motion in video form on a browser!

Looks amazing, excellent fluidity and smoothness; good job md! :thumb:

Sweet Jeebus, this looks incredible.

Great work as always Mark. That video looks wonderfully smooth! Death to 60 Hz!

 

[postmortemIA]

you forgot to mention another requirement, that you have to watch it directly in front of the display; that is only way that TN works..

 

[Mark Rejhon]

you forgot to mention another requirement, that you have to watch it directly in front of the display; that is only way that TN works..

Do you have reading glasses? 120fps videos aren't specific to TN displays.

-- Some true-120Hz plasmas exist. Panasonic Neoplasmas supports 120Hz
-- SEIKI 4K HDTV's support 1920x1080 at 120Hz
-- QNIX QX2710, Catleap 2B are IPS / PLS panels overclockable to 120Hz
-- Several models of HDTV that now have true 120Hz input.
-- Some 3D DLP projectors works great with 2D 720p@120Hz.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

you forgot to mention another requirement, that you have to watch it directly in front of the display; that is only way that TN works..

I know I'm always foiled when trying to play video games while looking directly at the side of my display while I"m sitting on the side of my desk. It's also really hard to type on my keyboard when is isn't parallel to where I'm sitting. Not to mention that when I sit on the left side of my desk looking at my display I have to reach like 3 feet away to get my mouse.

 

[cmdrdredd]

So what's the point of this? Why would I want to watch gameplay when I could actually play it?

 

[spat55]

Until you can get 120FPS without having to go and overclock or use TN, I will be sticking with 60FPS, and anyway, I don't think many of us have the power for 120HZ at 1440p with High-Ultra...

 

[Black Octagon]

So what's the point of this? Why would I want to watch gameplay when I could actually play it?

As someone who owns a 120hz monitor, I think it would be great if review sites (and developers) could start releasing video footage of new games running at 120fps@120hz

 

[Black Octagon]

Also, for videos like this where the person recording has 3 Titans, it's perhaps a good way of helping people like me (on a single 7970) how much extra visual benefit I would REALLY get by upgrading to a more hardcore rig

(No small thing, given the expense involved)

 

[cmdrdredd]

I still don't see where watching a video will make you want to buy new hardware. Especially when it's only 1080p in single player (multiplayer is known to run slower), and it doesn't take 3 titans to do that.

 

[jackstar7]

Video looked incredibly smooth on my Overlord. This can prove a good way for people to see the difference between 60Hz and 120Hz when they first get a new monitor. Hopefully a few more of these come out so people can really see the difference.

 

[toyota]

Until you can get 120FPS without having to go and overclock or use TN, I will be sticking with 60FPS, and anyway, I don't think many of us have the power for 120HZ at 1440p with High-Ultra...

sigh not this nonsense again. I am so sick of hearing this. you do NOT need to get 120 fps to see benefits of 120 hz screen. 120 hz is smoother and produces less tearing at ANY framerate. in fact is the perfect monitor for those that cant even get 60 fps on the settings they want to use since they can go without vsync and have a much better visual experience than with a 60 hz screen.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

sigh not this nonsense again. I am so sick of hearing this. you do NOT need to get 120 fps to see benefits of 120 hz screen. 120 hz is smoother and produces less tearing at ANY framerate. in fact is the perfect monitor for those that cant even get 60 fps on the settings they want to use since they can go without vsync and have a much better visual experience than with a 60 hz screen.

The TROOF.

120hz monitor on my desk is night and day better than any screen I have owned.

 

[Black Octagon]

True, but you get MORE out of a 120hz monitor by gaming at 120fps than you do by only reaching 60fps. That is the point

 

[toyota]

True, but you get MORE out of a 120hz monitor by gaming at 120fps than you do by only reaching 60fps. That is the point

yes you get more benefit but I am sick of people saying there is no reason to get a 120/144 hz screen if you cant get 120/144 fps.

 

[lehtv]

Alright guys, toyota is sick, let him rest until he's feeling better.

On topic: it'd be great to have 120hz videos available in twitch.tv streams. Watching competitive matches in the same refresh rate as the players themselves would be very nice, although I have to say the bandwidth is going to be a problem. Twitch's 720p@60hz streams are already twitchy as hell.

 

[cmdrdredd]

The TROOF.

120hz monitor on my desk is night and day better than any screen I have owned.

Depends...after using an IPS I can never go back.

 

[bystander36]

yes you get more benefit but I am sick of people saying there is no reason to get a 120/144 hz screen if you cant get 120/144 fps.

Ya, with the 144hz, you get an extra frame time. 1/36th sec, 1/48th sec, 1/72th sec. That in of itself is nice. Even 120hz has 1/30, 1/40 and 1/60th of a second.

You can also run at 100hz or 110hz, if you find yourself close but not quite there.

 

[toyota]

Ya, with the 144hz, you get an extra frame time. 1/36th sec, 1/48th sec, 1/72th sec. That in of itself is nice. Even 120hz has 1/30, 1/40 and 1/60th of a second.

You can also run at 100hz or 110hz, if you find yourself close but not quite there.

from cp you can choose 60, 85, 100, 120 or 144 which is pretty nice. i just leave it at 144 but I cap my most of my games with adaptive half refresh rate for 72.

 

[EliteRetard]

Is it just me or do the graphics look like total garbage? What game is this, is this on ultra low?

Reminds me of the original Half Life. Is this what a "high end" game really looks like? I'm guessing the blotchy graininess is a result of the conversion/compression process? But everything else...old crappy games look like that on my 320MB 8800GTS.

 

[CakeMonster]

The point here is to showcase what actual 120fps motion looks like, displayed on a 120hz capable monitor. It has nothing to do with graphics detail at all. The smoothness you get from 120fps on 120hz makes for a very different experience than 60fps, and also from an unreliable frame rate below 120fps on a 120hz monitor. There is a very useful purpose in showcasing this, and it seems necessary since obviously many are not educated about what it actually achieves.

 

[hans030390]

Been there, done that with real games for well over a year now.

To anyone saying 120Hz isn't worth it because of a lack of hardware, that's BS. It was a noticeable improvement just in the Windows environment alone! And there are many games out there than can be run at over 60fps without crazy hardware, though you might not be able to use max settings.

Even 80fps on a 120Hz display is noticeably smoother than 60fps on a 60Hz display. Whether or not it's worth the upgrade depends on how sensitive you are to motion.

Depends...after using an IPS I can never go back.

I'm the exact opposite. After using 120Hz (and now LightBoost), I can't give it up. I'm also very sensitive to smooth motion, and 60fps is almost hard on my eyes now.

 

[imaheadcase]

As someone who owns a 120hz monitor, I think it would be great if review sites (and developers) could start releasing video footage of new games running at 120fps@120hz

Why would they cater to less than %1 of the monitor owners?

 

[imaheadcase]

Been there, done that with real games for well over a year now.

To anyone saying 120Hz isn't worth it because of a lack of hardware, that's BS. It was a noticeable improvement just in the Windows environment alone! And there are many games out there than can be run at over 60fps without crazy hardware, though you might not be able to use max settings.

Even 80fps on a 120Hz display is noticeably smoother than 60fps on a 60Hz display. Whether or not it's worth the upgrade depends on how sensitive you are to motion.



I'm the exact opposite. After using 120Hz (and now LightBoost), I can't give it up. I'm also very sensitive to smooth motion, and 60fps is almost hard on my eyes now.

Well you are the minority. I gave mine to a friend, who sold it because he did not like it over his IPS monitor. The only thing I like about it was scrolling webpages seemed smother, not really something to upgrade a monitor over.

Games felt so much better on IPS to me.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I'm the exact opposite. After using 120Hz (and now LightBoost), I can't give it up. I'm also very sensitive to smooth motion, and 60fps is almost hard on my eyes now.

For me the difference is the color pop, the black levels, the viewing angles, and now that I've used a 27" 1440p screen...the resolution allows more room to work with on screen. For gaming, the resolution makes a big difference in image quality.

 

[ramj70]

For me the difference is the color pop, the black levels, the viewing angles, and now that I've used a 27" 1440p screen...the resolution allows more room to work with on screen. For gaming, the resolution makes a big difference in image quality.

With 1440p how is it when web browsing and other non-related gaming activities. I work two days a week from home and I am curious, would text be much smaller now?