Graphics Card Performance Question

[amywhite]

I have had a very disrespectful person on blacks ops 2 insulting my graphic card and my cpu. I am aware that i don't have the best graphics card ( i have a Nvidia Geforce GT610) but it plays the game and it does what i want it to do. My fps is 60. The question id like to know is, say you are running at 150fps minimum, he said by his rates being that high it will make him a much better player whilst playing. is this true or not?

 

[WYP]

he will have no advantage after he gets to his monitors refresh rate as this will cap the frames he can see. assuming his monitor is a 60hz monitor he is effectively only seeing 60 FPS. same as you
60 FPS is optimum for online shooters.

however if he is using anti aliasing while playing online, he is adding a lag between making each frame and outputting it to his monitor, placing him in a worse position.

 

[Cru]

60 FPS is optimum for online shooters.

that is just plain wrong

 

[SeekaX]

he will have no advantage after he gets to his monitors refresh rate as this will cap the frames he can see. assuming his monitor is a 60hz monitor he is effectively only seeing 60 FPS. same as you
60 FPS is optimum for online shooters.

however if he is using anti aliasing while playing online, he is adding a lag between making each frame and outputting it to his monitor, placing him in a worse position.

that's not how it works in cod
cod's engine is based on idtech and idtech has certain sweetspots which can be calculated by taking it's max framerate (1000) and dividing it with any integer. those sweetspots give certain advantages. the framerates which offer the best advantages are 125fps (1000/8), 250fps (1000/4) and 333fps (1000/3). these sweetspots offer higher firerates and further and faster jumps. so yes, in cod you have an advantage with a higher framerate. that is also why if you choose a 120fps cap in bo2 you get 125 fps. there is nothing more important in cod than having a steady framerate at any of those sweetspots. 63fps is also a sweetspot which is btw what you get when you limit the framerate at 60fps, but it barely offers any advantages.
if you get an unstable framerate or some bullshit like 90 fps you will feel a difference and it's not a pleasant one.
/edit
even though your GPU is horrendous the framerate in cod is more influenced by the cpu than the gpu because the engine is so effective that any recent gpu can handle it easily. it's the cpu bottlenecking it. well, your gpu might be at max load, that thing is a joke.

 

[WYP]

that is just plain wrong

traditionally when you say somebody is wrong, you offer the correct piece of information.

and by 60 fps i meant to say maxing out your monitors refresh rate! (usually 60)

Edit, i was unaware of these sweetspots which affect gameplay.
does this only apply to COD?

 

[Cru]

traditionally when you say somebody is wrong, you offer the correct piece of information.

and by 60 fps i meant to say maxing out your monitors refresh rate! (usually 60)

well i knew seekax was going to do that, and he did
so there's your explanation

 

[SeekaX]

traditionally when you say somebody is wrong, you offer the correct piece of information.

and by 60 fps i meant to say maxing out your monitors refresh rate! (usually 60)

Edit, i was unaware of these sweetspots which affect gameplay.
does this only apply to COD?

any game using idtech really, a lot of engines are based on idtech. most popular one is probably source (yes by valve). but that engine is a heavily modified version of idtech, you cant really strafe a whole lot but idtech is definitely the reason why bunnyhopping works the way it does in source. i guess you can do that a bit more effectively at those sweetspots.

 

[amywhite]

that's not how it works in cod
cod's engine is based on idtech and idtech has certain sweetspots which can be calculated by taking it's max framerate (1000) and dividing it with any integer. those sweetspots give certain advantages. the framerates which offer the best advantages are 125fps (1000/8), 250fps (1000/4) and 333fps (1000/3). these sweetspots offer higher firerates and further and faster jumps. so yes, in cod you have an advantage with a higher framerate. that is also why if you choose a 120fps cap in bo2 you get 125 fps. there is nothing more important in cod than having a steady framerate at any of those sweetspots. 63fps is also a sweetspot which is btw what you get when you limit the framerate at 60fps, but it barely offers any advantages.
if you get an unstable framerate or some bullshit like 90 fps you will feel a difference and it's not a pleasant one.
/edit
even though your GPU is horrendous the framerate in cod is more influenced by the cpu than the gpu because the engine is so effective that any recent gpu can handle it easily. it's the cpu bottlenecking it. well, your gpu might be at max load, that thing is a joke.

i have an i3-3220 processor which i am upgrading soon. he said his processor was an i3 2220.

 

[amywhite]

thank you to everyone that replied. so in some ways it can give a advantage on certain stuff but it wont give that big of an advantage over someone else

 

[SeekaX]

thank you to everyone that replied. so in some ways it can give a advantage on certain stuff but it wont give that big of an advantage over someone else

honestly, even with that cpu you should be able to get 125 fps. that gpu must be horrendous. i've actually never bothered with that low end range of nvidia gpus.