Loakum @Driftwood Awesome! I’m loving it! It does show a much crisper picture and the frame rate looks good! I was playing Stella Blade and Dragonball Soarkling Blast! :) (5 Days ago)
Driftwood @Loakum: enjoy, the one Sony sent us will be there on launch day. Coverage will follow asap. (1 Week ago)
Loakum *takes a large sip of victorious grape juice* ok….my PS5 pro arrived early! So much winning! :) (1 Week ago)
Driftwood @reneyvane: non ils l'ont publié le 1er octobre et je crois que tu l'avais déjà linkée. ;) (4 Weeks ago)
CraCra Y a un souci sur les forums ? (7 Weeks ago)
nostradamus very few with religious beliefs are naive or zealots, but for sure don't find amusing their beliefs being thrown in for clout. maybe STFU with that discourse? (10 Weeks ago)
Driftwood Download is now functional again on Gamersyde. Sorry for the past 53 days or so when it wasn't. (> 3 Months ago)
Driftwood Another (French) livestream today at 2:30 CEST but you're welcome to drop by and speak English. I will gladly answer in English when I get a chance to catch a breath. :) (> 3 Months ago)
Driftwood GSY is getting some nice content at 3 pm CEST with our July podcast and some videos of the Deus Ex Mankind Divided preview build. :) (> 3 Months ago)
Driftwood For once we'll be live at 4:30 pm CEST. Blim should not even be tired! (> 3 Months ago)
Driftwood More Quantum Break coverage coming in a few hours, 9:00 a.m CEST. (> 3 Months ago)
Driftwood We'll have a full review up for Firewatch at 7 pm CET. Videos will only be tomorrow though. (> 3 Months ago)
Driftwood Tonight's livestream will be at 9:15 GMT+1, not GMT+2 as first stated. (> 3 Months ago)
And makes me mourn the loss of Jesper Kyd as the series' composer. Assassin's Creed without Jesper Kyd's amazing compositions is like..., Halo without Martin O'Donnell's music. It may still be good, and the music might even be decent and appreciable or even quite good, but it will never be the same, and it will never have that same feel, and brilliance, and mood. I really wish they would bring him back.
His work on the series was incredible, and some of my favorite music of all time, to go with some of my most beloved, if at times flawed, games of all time.
Thank you guys, for doing this. It brings back a lot of really wonderful memories.
Btw, what is the name of the song in the '7 Years ...'-video?
Nevermind, I think I've found it: 'Enzio's Family by L'Orchestra d'Academie & Chorus'. Nice! :)
Thanks!
I'm rubber you're glue...
One ring of death to rule them all.
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On a sidenote Ubisoft just removed all 3 of their upcoming titles from Steam. Don't know how can they hope this will draw people to their Ubishop or whatever.
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Thanks for the videos.
Unity seems to be like the latter, if not in everything, at least when it comes to the core foundation/pillars of the first game.
One thing I really, really love in the first games is all the cultural history and puzzles that actually makes you think, they are full with them and something that really made me fall in love with the franchise.
Unfortunately, this was left out in the lastest games, though Unity seems to be bringing it back - and this time I hope it stays for good.
Thanks a lot for the retrospective!!!
But after AC2 i started losing interest rapidly to the point were the last AC i got was Brotherhood.
For me Altair and old Ezio will always be my favorite AC characters, badass designs.
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Thanks!
So how do we know what is the actual gameplay framerate ?
And what's the point of output 60fps when the game is actually running at 30fps?
We could use some script that detects bad frame pacing and resolve it, but we don't want, because bad frame pacing results in weird stutter, so we show games as they are and do not change them.
Need For Speed Rivals suffered from bad frame pacing at first, it was patched then.
With a capture and video encoding that matches the console's output, there's no problem at all and we show the games as they are.
Capture PC : Intel i7 2700K @ 4.7 GHz, 16 Go DDR3 1600 MHz, 2x NVIDIA Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 GAMING 4 Go SLI @ 1480/3750 MHz.
I suppose that if a game is locked at 30 or 60, then the time interval between each frame is the same.
Does capture time and the frame refresh time has to be the same?
If the frame-rate is 30fps, then each frame i guess will be there for 1/30 second.
So in my original thoughts, you can finish the capture within the n/30 ~ (n+1)/30
BTW, if the output is 60fps and the actual is 30fps, does it mean that the 30 of them will be the same with the other 30? e.g. (f1,f1,f2,f2,...,f30,f30) for one second?
60 FPS : A B C D E F G H...
Good 30 FPS : AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH...
Bad 30 FPS : AA BB CC CD EE FG GG HH...
In case of a bad frame pacing like in the third example, capturing or encoding at 30 FPS can result in some frames being ignored :
By ignoring odd frames : A B C D E G G H
By ignoring even frames : A B C C E F G H
In both case, frames can be missing, even if the games rendered it. While playing we get a little weird stutter, cause by frames sent to the output too soon or too late, even if it's still 30 real frames per second.
As I said, NFS Rivals suffered from this on both consoles and even on PC (it was limited to 30 FPS), so the only way to show the 30 frames was to capture and encode at 60 FPS, thus people could also see this bad paced frame rate.
Destiny's Alpha and beta (at first) had this problem too on PS4, which was resolved when the Xbox One beta came out, PS4 version was patched.
It's not like that in all games fortunately :)
Capture PC : Intel i7 2700K @ 4.7 GHz, 16 Go DDR3 1600 MHz, 2x NVIDIA Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 GAMING 4 Go SLI @ 1480/3750 MHz.
So i guess that the 30fps mode of The last of us remaster would be like this :
60fps A B C D...
30fps A C E...
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Then the 60fps output on console is like a protection? To prevent some severe frame loss or like you said, the bad pacing
Sometimes we feel a game dip at some point, is it because that some of the frames are the same, just like your example of the bad pacing
While sometimes, we feel the game slower, or much slower, for example when the crowd is huge, then the game may encounter a slow-motion-thing. Is that supposed to be that many consecutive frames are the same.
So as some of the game is indeed 30 locked seen from the output, but because of the bad pacing, the actually gameplay frame rate is not 30.
Then we will feel the dip or slow down?
If 4 consecutive frames are the same, then it's 4 of 60 (60 Hz outpout of the console), then it's not really 30 FPS but 29 or less, even with a good frame pacing, if the engine cannot handle 30 FPS in scene, frames are drops and we get slow downs.
The 60 FPS output of the console is because all TVs can handle 60Hz signal and outputing 30 Hz would not work on many TVs.
That's an old thing because of CRT TVs running on a 60Hz power line (50Hz in Europe).
That would be the best way to show 30 FPS locked games, but most of them use 60 FPS menus or HUD sometimes, and the console's dashboards runs at 60 FPS too.
On PC G-Sync is made to avoid all of these problems, it forces the refresh rate of the screen to be the same as the game's framerate, so if the game can only handle 43 FPS in one place, the screen's refresh rate will be exactly the same (43Hz) and will change dynamically.
Capture PC : Intel i7 2700K @ 4.7 GHz, 16 Go DDR3 1600 MHz, 2x NVIDIA Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 GAMING 4 Go SLI @ 1480/3750 MHz.
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But if a high frame rate game drops frame will make us feel slow down , e.g 60fps -> 55fps
Why the rise of frame rate will not make us feel the game is quicker?
e.g 30fps -> 40fps, as second son's frame rate is up to 40fps when the scene is not complicate.
With a 60 Hz screen, 60 FPS is one frame per refresh, 30 FPS is 60/2 so one frame each two refreshes (two successive frames being the same), 40 FPS is impossible to render smoothly, it can be worse than locked 30 FPS, because it will result in displaying most of the time 2 identical frames, and sometime only one frame, which will give the same feel as a bad frame paced 30 FPS game. Or without v-sync, tearing.
That's why they added an option to lock the framerate at 30 in Infamous, because some people prefer to have a solid 30 FPS instead of a framerate going from 60 and below, causing stutter.
That's the purpose of G-Sync (while preventing tearing as well), as it forces the screen to change its refresh rate constantly to match the game's FPS. this way, it's near perfection, as there is no stutter, no tearing, each frame has its own time.
But we won't see something like that on TVs and console before many years I think.
Capture PC : Intel i7 2700K @ 4.7 GHz, 16 Go DDR3 1600 MHz, 2x NVIDIA Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 GAMING 4 Go SLI @ 1480/3750 MHz.
But if all the game whatever the actual frame rate is, all use 60 fps as output, then at least the tearing or hard-to-render problems will be settled, right?
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My monitor is 60hz LCD, if I switch it to the 144hz LCD, is there any differences when playing games?
I have a 120Hz monitor and in some games like racing games, when my PC can handle 120 FPS without drops (which is the case in GRID Autosport and F1 games), it feels much smoother than 60 FPS, it looks more natural.
But most of the time I set it to 60 Hz because most recent games are too demanding for stable 120 FPS.
Someday I'll swtich to a 144Hz G-Sync screen, this way games will run as they can and I'll have smooth framerate.
Capture PC : Intel i7 2700K @ 4.7 GHz, 16 Go DDR3 1600 MHz, 2x NVIDIA Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 GAMING 4 Go SLI @ 1480/3750 MHz.
Do I have to buy a 144hz display? Or just keep my old one
Capture PC : Intel i7 2700K @ 4.7 GHz, 16 Go DDR3 1600 MHz, 2x NVIDIA Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 GAMING 4 Go SLI @ 1480/3750 MHz.