You're right about camera operators being limited in some way and that's why so many "action" scenes in film and tv are just a blur these days -- quick camera cuts with all the blur is a mess. I find it quite sad.
I've become so accustomed to 60 FPS myself that I cannot stand 30 FPS at all. It really bothers me; I cannot for the life of me enjoy gaming at such a low framerate. However, I have never taken the time to let my eyes and brain adjust to the lower framerate. I'm actually going to try this today; I will give it 20 minutes to see how well I adjust.
Regarding your last statement: so true! I remember when I first saw a 60 fps video a person made walking down the street. It wasn't a gaming video, of course, but higher framerate made my brain interpret this video as being sped up. I was a little confused at first because I knew it wasn't sped up but it sure felt that way! Despite that, I was really enjoying the difference and it only took my brain a minute or two to adjust.
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Great! Go for it. Just be sure you don't look at anything playing higher than 30 fps in between. Do that, and your brain will instantly reset.
And Princess Mononoke rocks.
Another good point. If I was playing by uncapping my framerate, the sections where I got 45-50 fps felt really smooth, then going back down to 30-35 fps felt heavy. So the back and forth meant I never could get used to it and it kept bothering me.
but now at a constant 30fps, I no longer know what I am missing, so to speak.
Also, a question I'd like to ask you. Would playing at 30fps (with no motion blur) cause any side effects to your eyesight any more relative to 60fps? Or is 30 safe enough no matter what to not have any adverse effects?
There's no threat to your eyesight -- only visual fatigue, like normal. It may happen more quickly at first, but not after your eyes adjust. The real damage comes from focusing on a screen two feet in front of you for extended periods. Makes you more and more nearsighted over time. At any fps.
It's a tech issue since it deals with altering the technical settings of the game.
For your settings:
Definitely jack the water up to at least High: it adds 3D waves as well as the boat bobbing and rocking as it travels. It also has about 0% impact on performance. Maybe 3% impact on Ultra. If you're able to achieve 70 fps, you won't notice any performance decrease on Ultra.
Ground texture has a bit of a performance impact, but the change is noticeable only in the fine details on the ground (rocks, dirt, cobblestones, etc.). I think there was supposed to be tessellation, as well, but it doesn't seem to be working.
Playing at 50-60fps with lower settings is the way to go, it makes much a more enjoyable experience to the game than playing at 30fps on ultra fo instance.
I followed through but I played for a whole hour with a cap at 30 FPS instead of just 20 minutes. The discomfort I felt ceased but in no way did I start to feel that 30 FPS was "smooth" at all. The "choppiness", even with motion blur, was readily apparent to me. I thought about why this was and had some ideas.
Cutscenes definitely felt "smoother" than gameplay even though I could easily tell the difference between a 60 fps cutscene and 30 fps cutscene (if the camera is not moving, I can tell by the smoothness of the animations of the characters or the environment). This is because of very little or very smooth camera movement. However, in gameplay, I'm constantly looking around my environment and adjusting the camera. I use a mouse and thought how this would play as a controller player. People on controllers don't generally make abrupt camera movements, right? I mean, how could they? It's impossible. I've used a controller before and even if you flick the analog stick max right or left, the camera movement is incredibly slow! It's almost as slow as those camera movements in cutscenes. A lot of console/controller players let the auto-centering do the job of adjusting the camera for them. I'm going on a tangent here but this definitely gave me some ideas on why some people perceive 30 FPS as smooth, which is subjective anyway.
So, my brain didn't instantly reset. Could it be that the 10 second interim visits to the inventory screen ruined the process? The inventory screen was still running at 30 FPS but my eyes found comfort in visiting that screen and not having to put up with the choppiness of 30 FPS.
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Princess Mononoke was my first Studio Ghibli movie and remains my favorite, as much as I enjoy the others. xD
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It seems it just doesn't sit well with you, then. I can only recommend that you set your monitor refresh to 60. If it's up at 120+, it's drawing at 4x the actual frame rate, which means several frames are being drawn repeatedly. This probably won't do much to help, though.
Modern LCD screens do draw more quickly and more accurately, which does make lower fps stand out a bit more. I've also played around a bit at 30 fps myself and noticed that since the draw distance distance is so far in Wild Hunt, the game has to move large, distant objects large distances in 3D space to maintain perspective when panning around. This means it's not very smooth at all at 30 fps. Increasing the level of blur would help this out -- or cutting down the draw distance.
The other thing, is that younger people might not ever be able to experience lower fps in gaming as smooth...because they never experienced lower fps in gaming. I grew up playing 8-bit games on the Commodore 64 and Apple II. It wasn't until the very first 286 microprocessors were released that 3D gaming was even a possibility. 10 fps was pretty standard performance for 3D games at that time. The very first 3D accelerator cards were not released until I was in university.
(Mechwarrior 2 and Descent on a Voodoo 1 card...:cheers2
All I know is that it can be done with the proper settings. Most consoles titles still run at a capped 30 fps to this day, but appear liquid smooth.
AWE all need to play the game WHEN IT IS GOD DAMN FIXED (or finished to be more precise)
Don't pick on them. They wrote over 1,000,000 lines of code. Then wrote more. Then had to fix it. I'm sure they're tired and ready for a drink.
Ok guys, so over the past couple of days I have been playing with a 30fps lock. It is definitely acceptable, especially since you do not control your camera to aim, like in FPS games. I've now gotten used to it and it doesn't feel unsmooth.
I am playing without vsync and without blur/motion blur.
Of course, nothing beats 60fps, but I'm just saying 30fps is acceptable once you get used to it in this game.
I am playing without vsync and without blur/motion blur.
Of course, nothing beats 60fps, but I'm just saying 30fps is acceptable once you get used to it in this game.