Just curious whether most people notice any appreciable fidelity above 60 fps in WoW (foreground) or whether it just amounts to bragging rights about your rig.
(speaking of WoW specifically, not games using newer engines)
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Yes, but itâs really, really subtle. Iâm not entirely sure it matters relative to the lag that happens server side when thereâs a bunch of people in the same area though.
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When things move super fluid, its kinda neat almost surreal. When its moving too smooth, itâs really strange.
Is it something to do with your monitor? I was told to keep the max fps similar to the monitor otherwise it slows the system down trying to achieve a higher fps? So I keep my max at 75.
I might be wrong, or confused; itâs a vague memory! 
While I am awaiting a newer graphics card and MB I am running at 60 fps foreground and dialing up other features and it seems like you get more bang this way.
I canât really disagree. Youâre increasing the density of whatâs on screen and at 60fps your brain is going to put it all together in a very nice picture. The extra fps does add a fluidity to what your seeing, as someone else stated. It does look âbetterâ, but having all the on screen effects, nice shadows, etc. is more important to me.
You want your fps to be some factor of your monitorâs ideal fps. This prevents things like screen tearing. There are options like vsync that generally take care of this though, so if your fps is ranging from 50 to 70 it still looks like a smooth 60 to your monitor.
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Being able to turn on all the âeye candyâ is always a big deal in any game. It brings a big depth and if your PC can handle it and keep the FPS above 60, the max the human eye and brain can actually comprehend. Then yes your getting the best depth of the picture and most out of the game that it has to offer.
How ever to brag your getting 100 FPS and yet have setting set to min, your not really getting anything special out of that.
Unless you have a monitor that has a refresh rate that is above 60 Hz youâll not see any differences simply because the monitor will not show them.
Or actually, there is one: screen tearing. when your frame rate is above the refresh rate of your monitor you can start seeing the effect known as screen tearing and it sucks, though i have never seen screen tearing in wow even though I run it at 100 fps on a 75hz monitor.
I recall having REALLY BAD screen tearing back with Resident Evil 5 when I played it at 120fps on a 60hz display though so Iâm glad I donât have that on wow lol
This has actually been proven to be a lie over and over again. There are lots of videos, studies and articles explaining this.
I have the Asus PB278Q 1440p with G-Sync built in with selectable refresh rate at: 60-120-144-150/155/160/165hz I run it at the 144hz range. Combined with two 1080 Ti running SLI in DX11 (does not work in DX12). I get WoW around 150 FPS average in most places, overcrowded cities tend to stay around 80 FPS.
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Yes, you see the difference. And the worst part is you get used to it.
I have both a 2k 144hz and 4k 60hz side by side.
I play on the 2k monitor.
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Its important for a pro fps players to have more than 60. For the rest of the players? nah
I switched to a 120/240hz monitor myself (G9) in anticipation of being able to actually buy the parts needed to upgrade to hit that consistently, but Iâve enjoyed the 60-120 Iâve had so far
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This is not true. Your eyes donât work in terms of âfpsâ. Your eyes are constantly scanning over the area in front of you, putting together a three dimensional model of the world you can see. We know how long it takes too, based on some experiments. About 10ms from the time something happens to the time your brain is able to do something with it past your visual cortex.
Theoretically this means you should be able to âseeâ at 100fps, but our brains donât work in such discrete time steps. While your brain is processing the bit of the world you saw 1ms ago, itâs also processing the bit of the world you saw 2ms ago, and 3ms ago, and so on. There are people who can watch a monitor or game at various locked fps settings and tell you what those settings are. They can say, âThat is 120fpsâ, and it is.
Now, itâs unlikely that your reaction times are going to go along with this. Itâs too far from your eyes to your brain and then from your brain to your fingers. Not to mention even reflexive decision making takes a lot of time relative to just seeing things. Throw in choices that canât be made on reflex and now youâre measuring things down to tenths of seconds, not thousandths.
All of those delays pale in comparison to the delays that happen on Blizzardâs servers when you get 50+ people in the same location though. I finally have a computer that doesnât lag on the graphics, but Blizzardâs servers donât care. I have LOTS of time to choose my next ability.
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This is what I talking about and is published on health pages and pretty much the general consciences about the subject of what the human eye and brain can see and deal with.
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You can with monitor higher than 60hz. After 144hz monitor even 60 fps feels like itâs lag
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This. I have seen 60fps and 120fps running side by side and you can definitely see a difference. 120fps looks a hell of a lot smoother.
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I think last year before all this pandemic stuff I recall I went to a large PC parts store in my city and they had a 144Hz G-Sync Asus or Acer monitor on display that was on sale, right next to it they put a larger but slower (idk if it was 60 or 75hz model) and put the same scene running on both and the 144Hz was very very noticeable, it was a huge difference, even to my untrained eyes.
I just wish I could afford a system that can handle 140+ FPS on high settings for most games like that XD
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It would have to be a fairly big jump. Like I could see a slight difference between 60 and say 100 fps. But its not as noticeable then lets sayâŚ30 to 60. lol
there is a huge difference between 60 and 144. once you see 144hz for a while 60 feels laggy and stuttery and Just doesnât feel right.
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