so my rig is pretty beefy but the fans are CONSTANTLY rev’ing when playing D4…i don’t like it…if I’m playing for hours at a time and the fans are constantly ramped up it can’t be good…so I want max graphics but will lowering frames help with the heating? I know rigs are designed to rev to keep components cooled by i feel cautious about it constantly ramped…literally it never stops.
what setting should I lower/adjust so it not always reving my fans.
Just set everything to minimal, if fans do not rev then increase stuff until they do. Game still looks pretty good with low settings, played the betas on my old PC with lowest settings.
Nahh since the human eye cant distinguish much more than 30 to 60 fps, anything higher is just a waste of resources
up to 255. clearly an 8bit system when the hardcap is 255 xD
thx…yep you’re right I noticed a SIGNIFICANT difference in noise when I lowered the fps…
Does the In game Fps meter even go above 60?
on my laptop I tune graph settings to reach e.g. 80-90fps then I set the max fps to 60, so GPU runs less than 100% so not heating to max.
nah, 60 to 120 is still a huge jump
but from 120 to 240 not so much
i say the sweet spot is somewhere around 120, it feels buttery smooth and yet not too demending on the system
Most people are fine with 60 fps. In First person shooters sometimes higher frame rate is desired because the games targeting system actually registers those frames we don’t see.
An MIT study suggests we can perceive an image our eyes see for 13 milliseconds. So that’s about 77 fps max perceived.
i dont know wtf are they testing with that mit study, but that is horribly inaccurate if they think 77 is what people can clearly observe because its a very significant difference between 60 and 120, more so between 30 and 60
the diminish return for most people are probably 120+, i am not even particularly sensitive to fps but telling me 60 to 120 isnt a huge jump is kind of ridiculous.
Wasn’t replying to your comment directly, more contributing to the thread, but I’m curious if you can set it to say 80 instead of 120 and if it looks the same to you.
As I remember, that study was from 2014 and they were just flashing images for pre determined time and 13 ms was the lowest people would actually recount what they saw. There might be more contributing to a software max FPS setting + monitor capabilities that effects your end user observation.
I’m running Medium graphics quality and a framerate 30 FPS and it keeps my old no-beefy PC nice and cool.
And I can actually barely tell the difference from high/60 in terms of quality.
lol. get ready for fans to go nuts at 120+ fps.
I play at 120 on High Settings and I can’t even hear my fans. Usually sitting between 50-60c on both the CPU and GPU.
I stream and obs has a hard time capturing frames higher than 60 fps without freaking out so i limit all games to 60. Some people say they see stuttering or artifacts etc at 60 but science says very few people (primarily fighter/test pilots) can discern any difference beyond 60. If it doesnt harm you and you have no artifacts then theres no real other benefit to it.
Your personal experiences and your rig may be skewing your results. Either way I will trust MIT over some rando on the forums