Re: TIL - Steam FPS

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 19:30:05 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 15:07 this Sunday (GMT):

On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 14:10:06 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
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Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote at 00:59 this Saturday (GMT):

On 6/20/2025 5:37 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Today I learned that Steam has a built-in FPS counter.
 

Since I don't play First Person Shooter games, why would I need a
counter for them?

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It's wildly inaccurate anyway, seems to sell and buy them at an alarming
rate...

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I dunno, mine's pegged at 60, which seems accurate for my rate of
acquisition. ;-)

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ONLY 60 fps games? For shame!

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I remember when games struggled to reach 24fps,* and boasted about
reaching that level (parity with film/motion pictures). I played Quake
on a 486 with single-digit FPS. 60 frames per second is a luxury!

Wow that must have been one crappy 486.

I think my first experience with quake was playing it on a 386DX40, it
ran surprisingly well, at about 2/3rds of normal speed.
Playable since everything ran at that speed so you were not at a
disadvantage.

Anyway, while my computer can likely render faster than that, my
displays are limited to 60Hz. I'm much more sensitive to fluctuating
framerates than if they're too high or too low anyway, so a stable
framerate locked at 60fps is all I need.

Ditto, in some cases I've locked down to 30fps to avoid fluctuation,
although that was on the older system.

Since my tired old eyes don't really see any difference between 30fps
and higher than 30, that's not an issue, although I imagine Rin would be
gnashing his teeth at being limited to 30 since his eyes do seem to see
a difference up to/over 100fps.

* "Flashback: A Quest For Identity", the 1992  made the 24
frames-per-second thing a major part of their advertising pitch. "The
Only Science-Fiction Action Adventure With Movie-Like Animation!"

It was an impressive game for the time - the sequel in 3d, less so.

The sort-of-prequel was cool too  Out of this World I think it was
called.

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