Gaming Questions

Okay, I am going to be starting PC gaming soon and I am hearing all kinds of different settings so here is my biggest questions.

What is the difference between High, Med, and Low in GFX Settings.

When it comes to FPS, what is the difference between 30 FPS and 80 FPS or so.

What is the standard for "playable" fps when it comes to games on the PC.

 

Why don't you play some games and tell us?

 

Yeah, just play a game and I'm sure you'll figure it out (you're nuking it). But general rules: the lower the graphics the higher the FPS, which is usually best around your vertical refresh rate (60, 75 usually). 30 FPS and up is generally considered playable...

 

high settings it will look pretty
med it will still look pretty but not as pretty
modern games on low still look pretty but not nearly as pretty as even medium

i cant tell a framerate difference on most games as long as it is over 30. some fast paced games like cs:s seem like it chugs on 45 fps though. depends on the game and the amount of effects they use.

playable is usually 30, but alot of gamers demand 60.

 

I like that....all the settings are some form of pretty lol. I promise to all of you the questions will slow down once my laptop gets here. I'm just so excited about it lol

 

It is not just a question of pretty, for me the higher the graphics detail, the more I can become immersed in every detail of the gaming world whether it be the smoke rising from an explosion, the damage detail on a car or a tatoo on a pedestrian walking by.

It is all about the suspension of disbelief for me. I play all of my games on as high as the settings will go with reasonable performance. 30 fps is a playable frame rate in games that aren't very fast paced but generally, the higher the fps, the smoother the game will play.

Resolution is also very important, for me the lowest resolution I will play at is 1680 X 1050 and although I have never played higher than that, I don't feel the need to.

 

Let me ask you this, is the difference in fps the difference between whether actions look fluid or cluncky?

 

Pretty much Hollywood, different games are playable at different FPS, for example crysis plays fine at 20-30fps were as something like UT3 wouldn't, my eyes can pick up on about 60/75fps above that i don't really notice, i prefer to use Vsync anyway which caps you FPS to your monitors refresh rate so stops any "tearing" on the screen mine being 60hz so 60fps.

The graphics settings normally relate to the amount of eye candy on the screen, shaders, shadows, anti-analising, explosions etc.

What laptop have you ordered btw?

 

its the one in my sig. Dell studio 15

 

*edit* Infact its a 720p screen so will be 1366 x 768 according to dells website so you should be able to have most of the eye candy on..

 

What you think of the gfx card

 

According to the big list of cards http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=302231 its about the middle ground, but given the resolution of the screen is quite low because its small it shouldn't have a lot of trouble i would imagine.

 

It's a very average card. Expect ~30 FPS on most modern games with medium settings at 1366x768 (which I believe is your resolution, not 1280x720)*, and about 30 FPS on low setting for more intensive games.

*When did Dell become even more retarded and stop listing actual resolutions for their screens? HD+ is not a resolution. 720p is half of a resolution...

 

The HD4570 is a great card for a causal gamer like me games like COD4 and TF2, L4D will run at max settings but demanding games like GTAIV and Crysis will run at 1024x768 with Meduim to high settings still very good mid range card so you shouldnt have nothing to worry about

 

Sweet. KING19 how do you think incredible hulk or Iron man would run?