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[โ€“] Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My display is 144hz and I've played quite a few games at that framerate. When you're talking about smoothness, what you're actually talking about is frame time. A consistent FPS at 30 is smooth, if there's not inconsistent frametime and stutters.

[โ€“] warm@kbin.earth 1 points 1 day ago

Well framerate is defined by frametime. Though the average displayed framerate differs if the frametimes are not consistent.

What I am talking about with "smoothness" here is higher framerate, I am used to 120fps on most games, I normally lock my fps to that. You may not notice it going up, but you notice it a lot when going back down to 60.

Everyone has different standards and preferences, I'd rather not play any fast shooter at 60fps.