Should I be able to tell the difference between 60 and 50 FPS?

In every game I play, whenever the frame rate drops to even something like 55FPS, I notice a stutter. Every time it changes I notice. Someone told me you shouldn't be able to tell the difference between 60 and 40 but playing a game at 40fps is horrible for me. Is this a sign of a bad component or something?

Here are my specs for anyone:

GTX 285. q6600 at 3.0ghz. 4gb ram. Vista Home Premium 64 bit.

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In every game I play, whenever the frame rate drops to even something like 55FPS, I notice a stutter. Every time it changes I notice. Someone told me you shouldn't be able to tell the difference between 60 and 40 but playing a game at 40fps is horrible for me. Is this a sign of a bad component or something?

Here are my specs for anyone:

GTX 285. q6600 at 3.0ghz. 4gb ram. Vista Home Premium 64 bit.

:(

Shaner258

What you will notice is the "drop" in FPS. Otherwise staying at a stable framerate of 60 would be no different from 40 depending on the game. I recommend enabling V-sync or lower some of the settings if you can't keep the FPS together.

No you shouldn't, the human eye can't distinguish between fps above 30

No you shouldn't, the human eye can't distinguish between fps above 30

joshuahaveron

this is absolutelty wrong in video games. I can easily tell the difference up to 100fps

Er, no, that's not how it goes. You can see the difference up to 30 frames, then after that you'll only notice at like 40, then 60, then somewhere around 100.

Anyways, as it's been said, you aren't seeing the 50 frames, just the drop to 50 frames. 50 frames stable looks very close to 60 frames stable, and certainly wouldn't stutter. Enable vsync, it'll do wonders.

No you shouldn't, the human eye can't distinguish between fps above 30

joshuahaveron

No you shouldn't, the human eye can't distinguish between fps above 30

joshuahaveron

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No you shouldn't, the human eye can't distinguish between fps above 30

SamiRDuran

this is absolutelty wrong in video games. I can easily tell the difference up to 100fps

I always have V-Sync on in every game I play.

You might be able to see a minor difference depending on where you are at in the game world.

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No you shouldn't, the human eye can't distinguish between fps above 30

SamiRDuran

this is absolutelty wrong in video games. I can easily tell the difference up to 100fps

same.... I can notice a HUGE difference between 30fps and 60fps

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No you shouldn't, the human eye can't distinguish between fps above 30

whatisazerg

this is absolutelty wrong in video games. I can easily tell the difference up to 100fps

same.... I can notice a HUGE difference between 30fps and 60fps

Yes..detecting sudden drops in framerate (even from 60 to 50) isn't difficult. It's when you view the same scene at different framerates (at seperate, spaced-apart times) that it gets difficult to detect a difference.

The people claiming that we can't detect differences in framerate beyond 30/60 fps are just wrong. Even when a game drops from 100 fps to 60 fps, the change in motion smoothness is quite obvious to me..particularly in fast-paced games.

And yeah, I really can't stand playing at 30 fps for most genres.

I can notice the difference,especially in driving games and First Person Shooters.Things seem much smoother and you move faster at 60 fps.

Sorry, I was proven wrong. Then I did some research and found out I was even more wrong :P.