Do you mind laggy games?

Yeah, I'm one of those people who minds laggy games a lot, like trying to Crysis on a Geforce 6600, or playing Dead Space at 45fps bugs me like crazy.

My other friends who barely knows he has a 4650 in his lappy and my friend with a macbook play nfs undercover at 14fps.... and don't mind, or Crysis at 13fps...

post your thoughts

 

As for your question, it all depends on the game. I will never play a First Person Shooter at 10FPS, whereas i would play an RTS at 5.

 

Personally I hate laggy games, I like them to be flawless otherwise it just ruins the fun.

I bought an xbox 360 for most of my gaming, thinking of purchasing the PS3 now its cheaper.

 

Now that we are talking 'lag', am i misinformed or isnt lag a networking issue? Like too slow respond from a server etc, and bad framerate is another thing? no?

 

Normally I hate playing at anything under 30fps, but I'm currently playin Mass Effect at ~23fps and I'm finding it bearable

 

The lag I hate is the mouse reaction. I only notice it in menus. In games, 15 FPS is borderline, 20-30 FPS is acceptable, 45+ FPS is great.

 

I need a solid 60 frames per second, or I can feel my mouse response having to catch up to my movements. I'd rather run a game with a good 60fps at 640x480 and all eye-candy off than get 30fps at native res.

 

As i have discovered with experience, i am fine playing a game at 10-14FPS, just as long as it doesn't stutter... Like i got this magical combo in GTA 4 that eliminates all stuttering but halves FPS for some reason, but without stuttering i can play on 10-15 no problem.

 

playing at less than 10 fps is just nothing but watching slideshow
id say...around 25 is the least , 35 is optimum and 45++ is better...

some gamers dont understand how to enjoy games , i had to convince my brother that playing NFS at 15fps is just plain stupid..

 

Different strokes for different folks i guess, see i'd rather have consistently mediocre FPS rather than the cycle of 30 fps for 30 seconds, down to 1 for a minute or two, back up to 30...

 

i don't mind laggy games, could play FPS games at 22-25fps. But i mind it for RTS, especially when scrolling.

 

I get a bit annoyed when my games dip below 30fps when in multiplayer. Sometimes you hear people complaining when their fps dip below 80 lol.

 

If you'd play without fraps/etc, I bet you won't be able to tell whether it's 30,40,50 or 60 fps

 

Completely untrue.

 

You mad? Its 60+ where you can tell a difference

 

If I get into a laggy game I just quit and find a better server.

 

You sir, have offended me. *Slaps with gauntlet*

Just kidding, but if you have good eyes like me, you can see a large difference. I can distinguish when a game is jumping up to 40FPS and then down to 30FPS, and I can tell the difference between 15FPS and 20FPS easy.

My tolerence depends on the game, and what type of game it is. Crysis, unusually, is actually strangely playable at 23FPS, believe it or not, and it really doesn't bother me, although a higher framerate would be preferable of course. GTA IV is a game that doesn't play well at lower framerates for me, and anything below 20FPS I can't stand. That's why I run it at 1024 x 600.

Call Of Duty games are certainly games that I like to have running above 30FPS in Singleplayer, and Multiplayer 40FPS and over is pretty much required.

So the long story short, for me, it really depends on what game it is.

 

you are absolutely right. everyone here is using the term *very* loosely to describe low framerates.

 

Oh, I guess if we're talking about ping then, for me, anything over 100m is pretty crap.

It's hard for me though because I live in the middle of nowhere.

 

Lag I generally considered network issue, but anyway, I hate a stuttering game. FPS its unacceptable, RTS, can survive, but still not a fan!

 

60fps for multiplayer, 30fps for singleplayer. oh and i need the minimum frame rate to be at least 20.

 

At least 30 FPS. I'll tweak the settings and resolution until I can get that.

 

For me it has nothing to do with the amount of Fps, CS 1.6 feels laggy with anything under 100 Fps, but Crysis plays smooth at ~30... The important thing, for every game whether is FPS, RTS, RPG, etc is the smoothness... I think no one can say that a game at 10 Fps is smooth, might be playable but it's not smooth... Once you get sttutering, it might and it will affect your gaming skills...

I remember playing NBA LIVE 2003 in a low-end machine... It lagged like hell, but since i didn't had a point of comparisson, i get used to it... BUT once i played the game in a good PC i said "WOW, what a sucky pc i have, now this is Gaming"... Since then, i can play with sttutering...