What's the minimum frame rate your prepared game at?

[jigger]

I aim for around 50 myself. Would be interesting to know what others are happy with.

[Willzzz]

Depends totally on the game, how fast paced and how competitive it is.

A slow paced, single player game might be fine at 30fps, a multiplayer game I'd really want 60fps.

[kalniel]

I aim for around 50 myself. Would be interesting to know what others are happy with.

As above. Which game?

[shaithis]

60 solid.

[jigger]

As above. Which game?

It's difficult to give examples, but first person shooters and racing games are usually the most demanding although find games like Elder Scrolls horrible at low frames rates.

[Firejack]

Frame rate is only a guide for me. I'm interacting with a game. Therefore its responsiveness I want.

Generally this means 30-45 FPS. Anything below and the controls feel heavy and slow and anything above I hardly notice as my guess is, like 99.9% of people, its beyond my response time.

[IronWarrior]

Depends on the game.

But anything above 15 is playable.

[Agent]

60 most of the time although higher where possible (FPS games mostly), but still can't beat the goodness of a 120Hz CRT. Even now I play a game every so often on my Samsung Syncmaster to remind myself that while TFTs are awesome, they still fall short of CRT speeds and clarity when doing so. Not that I'd have a desk full of CRTs though

[jigger]

I really regret getting rid of my CRT too.

Poll added.

[GeorgeStorm]

Completely depends on the game, and also it's not just the min/max/average, it's the change.

For TF2, I try to play at a solid 240fps. If it drops down to 100fps it's very noticeable.
If I limited it so it was a solid 120fps or something then I'm sure it would also be fine.

I started replying Crysis a couple of weeks a go, and I was playing 20-30 and it was ok, would have liked a little more, but it was certainly playable.

[kalniel]

Could you add a poll choice for 'depends' or something?

I think fps is usually the wrong measure for me nowadays. For a driving game getting as low an input lag as possible is the most important thing for me, and the render time is only a small portion of that. For Skyrim consistency of rendering is the most important factor, so that animations/AI can smoothly scale to actual run speed without any noticeable jittering. For other RPGs I play like Ultima VII then 15fps is plenty For a shooter like unreal tournament I used to like 85 fps, but there haven't been any good shooters recently so I'm not that fussed any more.

[jigger]

How about we go with fast pace shooters? slow paced game should still be playable anyway then.

Depends adds to the ambiguousness.

[jaff90110]

How can I check my frame rate with my system, Do I need a software to check it?

[Willzzz]

http://www.fraps.com/

[D001]

For many years I believed that 60 FPS was enough.

However, with some recent hadware and settings upgrades, I have enjoyed playing at higher FPS ratings. The difference in online FPS gaming is noticable in my opinion -- in simple terms, it simply feels "smoother".

I consider 60 FPS a reasonable minimum, but welcome anything above this. The higher the better.

[Marc_92]

Over 50 is fine for me.