Re: TIL - Steam FPS

Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@x-nospam-x.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

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Ummm..
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The FPS counter has been in the Steam client for at least 10 years.
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I've been in this newsgroup long enough to remember a time when many
here were trying to convince me that frames per second didn't matter
at all with regard to gameplay enjoyment,

Depends on the game, if it's not a shooter, it probably doesn't matter
that much.   I used to play Morrowind back in the day at ~16fps and it
was fine, since everything in the game ran at the same speed.

how the most recent version
of Windows was inferior to the one two versions back,

Win11 to win7, decidedly inferior.

how 30 FPS was
the maximum the human eye could detect anyway so that was all that was
ever needed,

It's as much as a lot of humans eyes can see, but not all.
Cute test; the new LED Grid traffic lights pulse in order to be bright
enough.   Most people cannot see the pulsing, like most people are fine
with 30fps.   Some can see the pulsing and can see a difference over
30fps.

physical media like CDs and DVDs would never go away,

For some people they never will, since companies cannot take away your
access to physical media you purchased (or burned yourself.)

CRTs had no advantages over LCDs (at the time at least..  ok times
have changed there a bit thanks to tech advancements).

Not having to lug a 70lb monitor around is a huge advantage.

It's all just a symptom of techno-ludditism, a fairly serious mental
disorder that indicates many personal shortcomings.
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So yeah, maybe now they've added some other metrics but you can still
get those many other ways with a single keystroke.

But often in a program that causes conflicts with some games or gets
flagged by buggy anti-cheating software, potentially getting your
account banned.   Whether or not you can convince them to unban you,
likely depends on whether or not it's a Chinese company.

Xocyll
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