StingingVelvet: Everyone raves about high framerate gaming, and they're right. When running a game at 144fps with no issues, it's an incredibly smooth feeling experience. However I am finding that at least half the time, if not more, they cause issues that ruin that feeling.

nightcraw1er.488: One thing that does really wind me up though. It’s an ultra wide, and most games, even though these have been around for donkey years, still don’t properly support them. Either messed up FOV or clipped/shrunk. It’s really just not good enough. Darksiders Genesis is the latest title, which if your running 3440x1440 it’s all zoomed in (scaled to low edge) which ruins FOV. It’s not like this is new tech!

StingingVelvet: Everyone raves about high framerate gaming, and they're right. When running a game at 144fps with no issues, it's an incredibly smooth feeling experience. However I am finding that at least half the time, if not more, they cause issues that ruin that feeling.

First off, tons of old games break when put above 60fps. I'm making this thread because Star Wars hype had me reinstall KotOR 2 today, and even though it has a 144hz setting it still breaks the game, messing with physics and stopping you from being able to move after combat. The solution on every forum? Limit fps to 60. This kind of thing happens all the time, even with relatively recent games like Fallout 4. Games are so designed around the 60fps standard (or even 30fps on consoles) that 144fps just causes endless problems.

Secondly, once you get used to 144fps it's hard to go back to 60... which sucks because not only do a ton of games require you to use 60fps, but also newer games are impossible to run at 144fps, even with a crazy expensive video card. I got The Outer Worlds to run at 120ish but playing on medium, but I could have been playing on ultra at a locked 60. How far down will I have to put the settings on Cyberpunk? Probably insanely low, or just deal with 60fps.

Anyway this is just a thread to vent about how I wish I didn't get a 144hz monitor. I only get the true, smooth 144fps experience on VERY rare occasions, and before getting that experience I never knew what I was missing.

AB2012: When they work well they're good, but physics tied to 60fps is an issue. Sudden fps drops from 144Hz to 60Hz are also more jarring than 75Hz to 60Hz, and the short-sharp drops are something even Freesync / Sync don't always cope well with. "Expectation drift" is also a real thing, ie, if you get used to 144Hz where you can't go back to 60Hz, from then on gaming gets exponentially more expensive (top-end CPU & GPU needed for heavier games, etc). I toyed for a while between 144Hz vs 75Hz and due to playing entirely single games, I don't regret the latter. Freesync goes a long way for perceived smoothness at lower fps and it's now supported on nVidia cards too.AB2012: What engine does it use? Believe it or not Ultrawide support for Unreal Engine 4 is far worse than on UE1-3 due to the way they've changed the default FOV lock. ie, UE4 devs have to manually set a different default if they want Ultrawide to actually have extra width and not zoom and crop.

StingingVelvet: Everyone raves about high framerate gaming, and they're right. When running a game at 144fps with no issues, it's an incredibly smooth feeling experience. However I am finding that at least half the time, if not more, they cause issues that ruin that feeling.

First off, tons of old games break when put above 60fps. I'm making this thread because Star Wars hype had me reinstall KotOR 2 today, and even though it has a 144hz setting it still breaks the game, messing with physics and stopping you from being able to move after combat. The solution on every forum? Limit fps to 60. This kind of thing happens all the time, even with relatively recent games like Fallout 4. Games are so designed around the 60fps standard (or even 30fps on consoles) that 144fps just causes endless problems.

Secondly, once you get used to 144fps it's hard to go back to 60... which sucks because not only do a ton of games require you to use 60fps, but also newer games are impossible to run at 144fps, even with a crazy expensive video card. I got The Outer Worlds to run at 120ish but playing on medium, but I could have been playing on ultra at a locked 60. How far down will I have to put the settings on Cyberpunk? Probably insanely low, or just deal with 60fps.

Anyway this is just a thread to vent about how I wish I didn't get a 144hz monitor. I only get the true, smooth 144fps experience on VERY rare occasions, and before getting that experience I never knew what I was missing.

theslitherydeee: It is nice to be able just to compare components by looking at which number is bigger.

Mr.Mumbles: Speaking of which, I will never understand the recent trend of getting 144+hz screens for laptops. Let's not even talk about 4k screens on them silly things. The hardware power to drive that just isn't there.

phaolo: I didn't know about this issue, expecially for relative new titles.

I don't even understand why 3d games even consider framerate for physics O_o

Btw, isn't it possible to simply limit it per game in the GPU panel?