Fs2004 screenshots

[JeffB]

I want to know why all the beta testors post screenshots with the frame rate locked at 15 fps a lot of times. Most people dont' get good performance using that low of a setting. It is good for screenshots though.

[madmanbc]

>It is good for screenshots
>though.

I think you answered your own question.

Brian

[Tabs]

I fly 2002 with it locked at 17 - consistency in the framerate is much more important than having it reach high levels - what your eye notices is change in framerate (especially in a program like FS)- when you see it suddenly slow from 30FPS to 15, that slowdown ruins the fludity. Locking it at the lowest reasonable level you see really helps to smooth it out and plus gives your CPU more time to load in mipmaps and new textures since it's not going full bore trying to pump raw speed...

[jcmissionary]

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Jun-25-03 AT 07:57PM (EDT)[/font][p]I'd rather not see it at all. :D

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[ladamson]

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Jun-25-03 AT 08:39PM (EDT)[/font][p]I run FS2002 & FS200? on an Athlon 1900XP with a minimum of 30 fps. The difference between 15 & 30 fps is very noticeable, and 30 fps still carries the scenery very well.

Ladamson

[JeffB]

I a upgrading soon, but on my current 1 gig amd, when i set the frames lower than 20, i get stutter even with medium scenery settings. Over that, it is very fluid.

[Nels_Anderson]

I get the feeling I should just stop displaying the frame rate counter in the screen shots--people are WAY too hung up on frame rates. At the moment I've been running locked at 16 fps and flying is perfectly smooth. It will run at faster rates but I'm not sure I see the need.

[bcerveny]

That's my experience too. I can easily feel the difference between 30 and 45 too, and likely 45 and 60. I can't get that high in FS, but I could in Fly! II.

People who are happy with 15 fps probably don't do much aerobatic footwork like I do or just really can't see the difference. If you're flying heavy iron about, the horizon probably just isn't moving at a fast enough rate for 30 fps to matter.

I know many people at work don't notice any difference between a monitor refreshed at 85 Hz and one at 60 Hz. I can stand 60 for about 1.5 seconds under the office fluorescent lighting before I change their setting for then. ;)

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[sonic33]

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Frame rates on TV rarely exceed 17fps, infact I am sure that I read somewhere that 17fps is the limmit of the 'normal' human eye. That will do for me, if I can leave some space for the PC to do other things like render clouds and scenery and I aint gonna physically notice the difference then I'm all for it.

If the sim will run prefect at 30fps then it will run just as perfect at 20 but leave more cpu processing power to do other things. Locking framerates was introduced in fs2002 and in my eyes was a great idea because it basically allows you to lock the processing power that the sim uses, or at least balance the load. Makes perfect sense to me.
Of course, it all depends on the big picture and if you get stutters at 17fps but not at 30 then there could be a problem with the hardware configuration of your physical box because that just aint feesable.
A lot of the time it is in the head, and it's what you think is the best setting that you stick with, sort of like a comfort zone. However if you look, no I mean really look, you will not see any difference in the fluidity because 17 fps is as fast as the human eye can see............. or so I read.
That's enough from me before I repeat myself again. ;-)

Suffice to say, I think showing fps when posting screenshots, especially on a new sim and for the purpose that the shots are being shown, is a good idea and will certainly give an insight to how the sim performs in different environment based on the current spec of the PC.

Last edit, I promise.
Isn't one of the most common questions asked on these forums. "" I am upgrading and want to know what spec FS??? Will run on "" Posting screenies with fps surely goes some way to giving one some Idea, providing the spec of the PC is known. And we all know what spec Nels is using yes?
What, you don't? well lookie here :
http://www.flightsim.com/cgi/kds?$=main/review/fs2004p/fs2004p.htm

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