Don't even check my FPS.
If i can move, i can play.

for shooters I normally only aim for 25-30 fps...I like my pretty.

I dont notice a difference between 60fps and 25fps...

I enjoyed the White Chamber reference very, VERY much.

I play cube 2 at around 20 fps on most maps and don't really care. Power to the Intel GMA 950!!!

OMG, I literally just got the pun in the title. FPS has two meanings! :O

YEAAAAAAAAAH POWAH TO THE LEFTIES!

[url=#user_comment_53581]@StarPilot[/url]: I wanted to try that Team Fortress 2 game a try before these goddamn vampires came along and my computer died.

The strength of your computer and internet connection is inversely proportionate to how well you play.

I never get 60 fps on games...or is i do i dont care once i get below bout 20 is when i start the tweeking....

[url=#user_comment_53682]@FF[/url]: Yes, the difference is very noticeable to some people.

60 fps looks great, high settings look better, who cares if you miss even 10 frames in 60, your eyes can't see it anyways

I'm one of those people who rarly see 45 fps, and can still blow away folks who have top-end equipment and 120 fps

BEST GRAPHICS EVAAAAAH!!!

I only play with 10-25 fps
WITH LOW SETTINGS!
and I still own you guys

I play with a ping OVER NINE...ok, over 2 thousand.
Top that.
Granted, I explode with missiles exploding 10 feet away from me, people teleport, and my shots go through enemie's chests without dealing damage...
Yeah, my PC is good, my internet sucks...

I play FPS' at 20fps AND I FUCKING LOVE IT.
Seriously, why do people obsess about 60fps? is it REALLY that big of a difference?

I play TF2 below 60 FPS.

And I still have fun.

[url=#user_comment_53527]@RandonPersonInTheBar[/url]: Well at least there's another person. Cybil always runs off without me. [url=#user_comment_53585] @Regal[/url]: D:

[url=#user_comment_53623]@Cirno[/url]: Not you <.<

*sigh*

FPS whores.
Get some freaking better rigs already!!

Go, go lefties! You shuld totaly visit Ned Flanders Leftorioum.

So true, except try 30 fps :/

120 fps is the way to go. Chris' FPS Config FTW

Comic needs more dakka.

Sam Neill quote made my day. Mostly because I have to run all my games on that setting. Lucky bastards with computers good enough to play fps, I can't even run a modded oblivion.

[url=#user_comment_53647]@sp[/url]: Thumbgineer? Booo, go run around and kill people with your shotgun and wrench/gunslinger like a real engineer.

[url=#user_comment_53627]@Damien[/url]: Same, but the worst part is when you get framerate stutters. When the framerate climbs and drops repeatedly (and quickly), it easily throws you off on any kind of multiplayer.

My laptop is the reason why I main Engi on TF2... the sentry can aim without me or my lag :)

Sure most games try to look nice, but games trying to sell on graphics alone are few and far apart and plenty games focus more on things like gameplay or story. [url=#user_comment_53603] @MattM[/url]: Then please good sir, explain how something like the last 3 CoD games sold so well?

I guess in multiplayer a high FPS can help alot, but in a singleplayer experience 25 and over is good enough for me. The good ol' "Even movies play at 23.5 or 25fps" is a good comparison measurement.

Then again back in the (N64) days having a occasional 10-15 fps stuttering was not that rare...

my loest accept for fps on source games in ~10 fps, i just got a new cpu so that why (in the comment i left below) i get such good fps, before it was around 20 or so

I hate it when people end up whining about FPS quality. I can handle it if things go a bit slow, mid-20's at the lowest, and it only really troubles me if it's in a multiplayer game where it hurts the teamwork.

[url=#user_comment_53603]@MattM[/url]: I think you are a step removed there. Images seem to be the first substantial information released about a game(developers may talk about the game, but that talk tends to be pretty abstract). Good images, and video, drive the marketing which can drive portions of the industry.

Feh, I'm usually happy at about 45 fps myself. Long as I can keep up with the server's tic rate, I'm happy.

And never forget to turn off the grass and show those graphic whores who's the strongest!

Hm, good thing you can't get higher than 24 where I live...

This is essentially me trying to cope with TF2 on a really REALLY bad laptop. It rises to 50 rarely, 40 on occasion, and usually stays around 30. :C

[url=#user_comment_53557]@Lethosos[/url] Bullshullocks. There's an _extremely_ noticeable difference between 15fps and 30 / 60. http://www.boallen.com/fps-compare.html 30 fps = minimum for usability ~60 fps = good enough for most ~120 fps = an edge for high level play : bordering on overkill

Ahh Event Horizon. It's one of those movies that I love to hate with fondness. Yknow, the fun kind of hate!

My lowest acceptable frame rate is 30FPS. However I refuse to play any game on anything less than max.

There also seems to be this myth that graphics drive the industry. Sure most games try to look nice, but games trying to sell on graphics alone are few and far apart and plenty games focus more on things like gameplay or story.

All this graphics bashing seems a little crazy. Good artistry can really pull you into a game and good technicals mean you stop noticing the artificiality of the world.

The current trend of movies zooming way in on the action scenes really shows the limitations of their low framerates. I the goblin fight in spider-man 3 just being a blurry mess.
In games, a solid 60 looks nice, but getting the fps up to 120 makes first person turning and strafing smooth.

if u get kills n die less (or not at all) then IT IS WORTH IT!
High Ping > High graphics; if it = epic pwnge on enemies

Haha, I get it.

Funny. :)

Lefty? the world is in good hands!

This really depends on how the game is programmed. If you change your graphical setting and it doesn't increase your FPS much, your CPU is the bottleneck.

I normally play tf2 on low at 1280 x 1024 for 40-50 fps. I can go for high setting for 20-30 fps, but no, I play games not to see graphics.

[url=#user_comment_53590]@Kyorisu[/url]: There is no kill like overkill, I guess.

I'm using a 120hz monitor with some SLI action. I'll enjoy my 120 frames thanks.

cntd, wheel comp still opts to lag me out. I know I've got snowbirds, and some piss poor internet, but when I can get maxed settings on a high end game, single-or-multiplayer, and some low end game fucks up, I just wanna punt the designers.

Lol, i have to do this for some of my games these days. Dang newfangled graphics enhancers doodads.

I tend to get 30 FPS on games, even high end crap. while I do think that FPS doesn't matter (I actually prefer games to run on lagg, I can think my strategies through instead of whiplash gaming/flying by the seat of my flaming ass. However, I do rage when an online game that runs on a hamster cntd.

@Harry Mason: Don't worry, she's fine. A bear came by earlier and offered her a ride in his van.

Well I expect Monday Night Combat to be a bit more known to the TF2 community with that new cross-promotion they've got on Steam.

http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=4909&p=1

ProTip: Don't run face first into a Tank as an Assassin.

My cpu sucks.

I'm playin' TF2 with an average of 25 FPS. If I had 60, I'd came.

180 fps in tf2, all max setting, 300 in gmod max settings, and 60 in crysis max settings.

As a poor gamer I'm okay with this image resolution.

[url=#user_comment_53570]@Francis[/url]: You're in a zombie apocalypse, why the hell do you care about computers? What are you, Louis?

Oh my god. I hate my computer.

This comic would be funny if my rig wasn't so outdated that I can't even run the demo version of CoD:World at War above 20 FPS.

FPS doesn't bother me, so much as when performance lags so awfully that the slightest twitch of my wrist in L4D2 sends my aim spiraling a full 180 degrees, making it literally impossible to aim. I'm jealous of folks who can afford to have their games playable at max graphical settings.

This is why source engine games are great. Because they have the motion blur effect, and you only need about 20 FPS for it to look crisp.

i would actually play the hell out of a fps that looked like a kid's scribbledy drawing, no lie

Nice Event Horizon reference, by the way.

They should have formed one ok-standard in graphics and from there on spent all ressources on making an actual good game only instead of bringing those hardware killers one after the other that lack any soul...

60 fps?

Christ on a cracker, I count myself lucky if I can get more than 20, even on low settings.

I did not know jo was a lefty, and truthfully, some people are trying to get a 60 fps average when some others are lucky to get a 20. Even though the human eye will only process 15 (thanks to lethosos for the info).

Funny, human eyes process info at 15 FPS...

you do realize that if a game had graphics like the last panel, people would consider it to be really good.

usualy play wow with full graphics, get about 20-30 FPS during rush hours in stormwind (like, 2000 players plus city graphics) and i get about 60 fps everywhere else, yes, including laggrimar.

I found it most hilarious when my friend was trying to get 120fps from 115fps in Enemy Territory, by turning off every thing that he could including windows background programs, and then I told him he would never get more then 75 anyway because THAT THE F*CKING MONITOR HAD A 75Hz REFRESH RATE ANYWAY

This game isn't Sven Co-op. Therefore I am not familiar with it.

Yes, I am a old-school half-life online gamer.

What is this '60FPS' you speak of. Most of the games I play are lucky to get 20 FPS...

I need a new computer :(

I play WoW and I average about 30 fps if I put most of the settings at their lowest except for a select few. If I don't, my Wal-mart bought system can't handle it and I end up w/ about 5 fps.

Jeez i am one of these people, but its not 60, its 90 FPS, if i dont get 90 FPS i swear my flick wrist shooting will seem slow in TF2 and L4D 2

Left handers FTW

See, this is why I prefer consoles. I'm totally this anal about my games when I have the option. So just take away the option and I'll stop worrying about it.

FU** YÈAH LEFT HANDED!

sry...wanted to write that XD

It's all because of lcds!
if you insist on anything but triple buffering, dipping below 60 kicks you right down to 30 with vertical sync, or gets you horizontal tearing. Of course, triple buffering adds 16ms to your latency via your display....and who wants that! :P

OMG you are lefty too?
best day evurr

I just played TF2 with you! And to be honest, internet lag is so much more annoying than frame lag. My campus went to all wireless, SUCKS SO MUCH!

[url=#user_comment_53517]@StarPilot[/url]: Hahaha, Doublecross. Have fun falling off into the void while trying to land on the tracks. At least there's no train.

NUKEM

I average 30-40 FPS on most games, mostly because I'm running two-year-old hardware (although my card's not too shabby.) Lower-grade processor + slower hard drives = good luck getting those 'butter' framerates.

That said, my card's good enough that only the stuffiest games drop frames.

Don't care, i play minecraft.

I remember when 20fps was good enough.
Man, I feel old.

"You can play way longer on the 3DS if you deactivate Stereoscopic 3D!" *herp derp*

@Harry Mason: I have seen her, she went in the area where people that aren't you can pass through somehow without a googolplex worth of enemies out to kill you for some pointless reason, here's a pipe and this guy, his name is frank west or something.

[url=#user_comment_53516]@Salamander[/url]: Actually the only reason movies seem smooth with around 25fps is because they use tricks like blurring. With perfectly crisp imagery like games people can actually even notice the difference between 60 and 100 fps.

Excuse me, but has anyone here seen a little girl? She has short, black hair. She just turned seven last month.

I feel like I'm laughing at a hypothetical person, as I personally don't know a single person that cares so much about their FPS.

2009 MacBook + 10.5.8 OSX = This Comic

Only I get around 30 FPS instead of 60. Or if its CTF_DoubleCross which murders me anyway down to 15. And before anyone asks, yes I use a tweaked version of Chris's FPS config.

A fun way to break people like this: I tell them that movies here are 25 fps. The truth burns them.

Personally I don't actually notice or care what the fps is as long as it is at or above 25, as thats where I can start to see the individual frames.

Some of us just upgrade our five year old video cards.

Say what you will, but the detail of the graphics is meaningless as long as those graphics have a decent style and are CONSISTENT.

Lefties rule.

So true!

Loved the Event Horizon quote

Can't make an omelette without turning off shadows and bloom.

Similar to TF2 on the N64.

Can't make an omelette....