Proper 60fps locking WoW? Smoother than real life?

[Ttvfungames-proudmoore]

I can’t find a proper game play video video but this is the smooth effect I have seen in the past from other streamers and video of WoW game play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYAfUJXPCqc You can really see the smoothness about 30 seconds in.

This is done with ai to achieve the fps locking at 60fps, but I’ve seen streams where people play wow with this same silky smooth 60fps look. 99% of streamers who are locked to 60fps do not have this look. I am wondering how the ones that are, are achieving this look I’ve also seen it done at 120hz/fps, but, I’ve only seen that once, and the guy had a monster computer.

There are also full movies that have this silky look, I think its just 60fps, but I don’t know what the term is called or why it happens? Also, does anyone have any game play videos with this silky smoother than life look? I’ve whitenessed it before, but I am having a hard time finding any good examples of it.

Most people that share their 60fps wow game play videos are not locking 60fps properly so its hyper smooth. I’ve also not seen this effect in WoW gameplay videos in over 5 years, but I do not watch a lot of WoW streams, so maybe they changed something in WoW, where its no longer locking to 60fps properly?

You can also see the same smoothing effect in this willsmith clip at 3:13: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i82xURPkLWo - still has slight fps drops, but its much better than most WoW gameplay videos in terms of properly locking to 60fps.

What is that? I’ve not been able to ask anyone how they are playing their WoW like this, what settings, monitors, gear etc, because almost no one does it. Like, I have seen it for World of Warcraft from like 1 streamer at 120hz, in my entire life done properly. Any idea how you would do that for World of Warcraft? What settings/gear? Maybe WoW has changed too much and its no longer possible, even at 60hz/fps. Even finding proper 60fps gameplay outside of WoW is hard! So many mislabeled gaming videos on YouTube, its terrible.

Any help?

Edit: So I got the smooth look at 144fps, that is close to what I was going for, but now when I stream its very choppy.

[Ttvfungames-proudmoore]

Bump!

[Eninya-malganis]

@Ttvfungames-proudmoore

Edit: So I got the smooth look at 144fps, that is close to what I was going for, but now when I stream its very choppy.

Specs?

Smoothness is not necessarily achieved by a high (average) framerate, but rather by eliminating 1% lows, or bringing those as high as possible. At a certain threshold, around 144-170, it’s very noticeable how smooth things can be.

I can hit my frame cap of 240 FPS in WoW here and there, but the dips to ~90 FPS are what hurt the overall smoothness. There’s a few ways to try and tackle this, with probably the least annoying being frame smoothing tech. Alternatives are trying to cap, or run a syncing tech.

AMD has AMD Fluid Motion Frames, which recently updated to version 2 on their preview driver, and it’s great. There’s also FSR 3.0/3.1, but it’s not implemented/updated from FSR 1.0 in WoW. (And right now, upscaling is broken and hurts your framerate, as of patch 10.2.)

Nvidia has frame gen, only through DLSS 3.0, which isn’t implemented in WoW (which is kinda odd, given Reflex is implemented).

I can record, but it won’t be ultra smooth on playback due to fluctuating FPS in combat in WoW. I have videos where I record and log combat (not live log), while running Details with default update interval, all of my addons, and average 90 FPS, while stable 60 FPS recording. AFMF1 released back during my Mythic Sarkareth progression, and I used the hacked driver briefly, but didn’t record with it. It did help, but if your FPS drops too low with Frame Gen (like sub-60), it doesn’t look great, and AFMF1 was unstable and decativated a lot to fluctuations. AFMF2 fixed that, though, so it’s pretty easy to lock my FPS around 120 and put my cap to 240 for the feature. Lower temps and heat, while enjoying the framerate, all for the low price of 5 ms frame latency.

[Ttvfungames-proudmoore]

@Eninya-malganis

Smoothness is not necessarily achieved by a high (average) framerate, but rather by eliminating 1% lows, or bringing those as high as possible. At a certain threshold, around 144-170, it’s very noticeable how smooth things can be.

Yes true! That is why I was asking, why not one is streaming WoW super smooth at 60fps.

@Eninya-malganis

AMD has AMD Fluid Motion Frames, which recently updated to version 2 on their preview driver, and it’s great. There’s also FSR 3.0/3.1, but it’s not implemented/updated from FSR 1.0 in WoW. (And right now, upscaling is broken and hurts your framerate, as of patch 10.2.)

I noticed the upscaling screwing my frames

@Eninya-malganis

Nvidia has frame gen, only through DLSS 3.0, which isn’t implemented in WoW (which is kinda odd, given Reflex is implemented).

Let’s hope they implement this soon.

@Eninya-malganis

I can record, but it won’t be ultra smooth on playback due to fluctuating FPS in combat in WoW. I have videos where I record and log combat (not live log), while running Details with default update interval, all of my addons, and average 90 FPS, while stable 60 FPS recording. AFMF1 released back during my Mythic Sarkareth progression, and I used the hacked driver briefly, but didn’t record with it. It did help, but if your FPS drops too low with Frame Gen (like sub-60), it doesn’t look great, and AFMF1 was unstable and decativated a lot to fluctuations. AFMF2 fixed that, though, so it’s pretty easy to lock my FPS around 120 and put my cap to 240 for the feature. Lower temps and heat, while enjoying the framerate, all for the low price of 5 ms frame latency.

Thanks, yea, I think I will just keep streaming at 60fps until I get a better computer. I have a 5800x right now with horribly memory not tuned and xmp built for intel :S.

I was considering to go 5700x3d so I could play at 144fps streaming at 60fps, but decided to just keep playing at 60fps with stream at 60fps. It’s not as smooth as 144fps, but, the look I am going for, you don’t even need 60fps, you just need to eliminate the frame drops. Which mind you, happen no matter how good your computer is. I’ve noticed computers pumping 240-280fps that have 0% frames at 14fps and 1% lows at 160fps. So yea, think I’m waiting until april for 9600x3D or something idek.