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Resolution or frame rate?

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Do you prefer to sacrifice frame rate to get higher resolution & detail / quality or sacrifice resolution / quality for the higher frame rate?

Just been debating with me cousin regarding fast pace games such as first person shooters or racing games...

Just thought I ask this question to see which of us you people will side with more!.. :P

Let the debate begin!.. :D

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single player game looks > FPS

 

multiplayer / competitive FPS > looks

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ffs they both important since you cant play a game at 4fps at 4k etc... BUT i prefer 30 fps in 1080p rather than 60fps in 720p.

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I prefer framerate in shooters, racinggames and such. But detail in games like skyrim, however the framerate has to be 30+ at all times.

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I like to balance the two, so the game looks good while still maintaining a playable frame rate. (20-30+ fps depending on the game)

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50fps or I drop settings.

Same for any resolution.

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Just drop the settings to achieve 60+ FPS, no need to mess round with the resolution. If we talk about consoles, well, they should offer the same thing. Dropping the resolution to 720p to achieve 60fps is silly when you could just turn down lighting effects, AA and texture quality. Dropping to 720p while maintaining the same settings will look worse than the game at the native resolution of your TV with lower settings. 1080p and 60fps should be absolute minimum standards, and if you have to sacrifice texture quality and your pretty particle effects then so be it.

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Texture quality is the LAST thing I turn down. (Maybe Ultra to High, thats it)

Everything else has more priority to be turned down than the Texture IQ, for me.

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I always try to get close to 50FPS (60 is obviously better) in every game. So... Yeah.

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If it can do 30fps at at least 720p, I can live with it....

 

Any lower and it's a fail...

 

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single player game looks > FPS

 

multiplayer / competitive FPS > looks

 

^This is definitely the final word on quality choices. (TOO BAD ON CONSOLES YOU DON'T HAVE A CHOICE)

 

When I'm playing single player, it's all about how amazing the world looks. High res and Amazing quality rule here, at the cost of FPS I'm willing to pay. (but never below 60HZ).

 

Competitive gaming demands higher FPS for better reactions and smoothness. This trumps quality for me to an extent. I only have a 60Hz monitor so it doesn't affect me yet, but if I had a 120Hz monitor I would set games to get that 120Hz if I had to turn settings down.

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The answer is simple, a slideshow in 4K isn't that entertaining

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I prefer having 60FPS and a minimum of 720P for resolution, I don't care for those fancy effects because that will just lower the FPS for my liking unless they can have those and still be able to 60FPS but I wouldn't want to go any lower than 45FPS.

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Well here's the Wii U owner Nintendofanboy answer. Of all the Wii U games I own I couldn't tell you which ones are 720p up-scaled and which ones are doing 1080p natively. I wouldn't know because I'm usually sitting comfortably a couple of meters away from my 46" TV and not inspecting the pixels. However, when I play Mario Kart 8 and it drops into four player split screen? You'd have to be blind Freddy not to notice that the framerate has dropped to 30. 30fps is a much bigger compromise than 720p.

 

That said, from the information on the 'nets about games I know that Wind Waker HD is 1080p @ 30fps. Clearly for some games it doesn't really matter as much because that didn't bother me at all when I played it.

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I would take a lower resolution and a higher framerate on a console, as I only use a console for the exclusive console only games.

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60fps is obviously preferable, but if a developer chooses 1080/30 and gets it locked absolutely at 30 then that's perfectly fine for me. A stable framerate is much better than occasionally getting 60.

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depends.

 

The Last of Us is best experienced like a movie. So res > framerate

 

Dirt 3 is best experienced like an actual race. So framerate > res

I get 60 frames at 1080p on a dual core APU. Ask me how.

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