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240p makes eyes bleed, yes, but the thing in the video disturbed me.

Reminded me of Little Britain for some reason.

The Pandaren are cool and I'm glad they're making them a playable race. The Monk class looks interesting, but I'm not sure the game needed another agility DPS class.

The thought of spending five levels and possibly two years in limbo between Kung Fu Panda and Mulan, though. Ugh. I wouldn't mind a single zone being Asian themed, but an entire freakin' expansion? Pandaren weren't THAT big in WC3. They were a joke made for April Fool's Day that starred as a sidekick to Rexxar when he freed Durotar and all that.

It would be like making an entire expansion revolve around how Deckard Cain from Diablo, or Sarah Kerrigan from StarCraft, showed up in Azeroth, all because you got a Mini Diablo and Zergling pet if you bought the Vanilla collector's edition back in the days.

They sort of blew it out of proportions. They took a well-liked joke character and thought the fanbase would enjoy an expansion revolving around them. The problem being that such an expansion would take a pretty huge step away from the Warcraft atmosphere.

I just don't think East Asia when I think Azeroth...

Edited, Oct 22nd 2011 11:29pm by Mazra

You don't really need more than 100 FPS in a game. Hell, 100 is more than the eye can register anyway. Avatar was filmed at 24 FPS.

Think about it. Just think about it.



Edit: Unless your LCD screen isn't locked at 60 FPS, anything above is just a waste of pretty graphics. Turn up them graphics and play at 60 FPS.

Edited, Oct 23rd 2011 12:44am by Mazra

Why would an increase in frame rate also increase your movement speed?

But that's besides the point. If your monitor is locked at 60 FPS then it won't matter if you're running the game at 60 FPS or 300 FPS. Your monitor will only show you 60 FPS.

Edit: The only reason for running a game at lower details is to prevent latency during sequences that require a lot of processing. Lower graphics settings and thus a higher FPS would mean less processing and thus less input lag, resulting in a more fluid experience when in a heated battle or whatever. You'd be better off turning on v-sync and just reducing your graphics settings if you experience input lag during combat. 100-200 FPS is just overkill.

Edited, Oct 23rd 2011 1:27am by Mazra

I just loaded up WoW, turned off v-sync and set it to Low settings. I'm getting 250 FPS now. And now I set it back to Good settings and v-sync enabled, getting 60 FPS.

Honestly? Didn't feel a difference.

Remember, only my FPS is locked at 60. My GFX card is still capable of delivering ~200 FPS at these settings, so my FPS won't drop below 60 FPS unless something crazy happens.

Unless you've got a monitor that is able to display more than 60 FPS, you shouldn't notice a difference. Mind over matter, though. You might think it feels differently because you're aware that the FPS have been increased.

"FPS" was used way too many times in this post.

Edited, Oct 23rd 2011 1:38am by Mazra

The issue seems to be that we're talking about two different comparisons, Rio.

I'm comparing 200 FPS without v-sync to 60 FPS with v-sync on the same card. You're comparing 200 FPS without v-sync to 60 FPS without v-sync on two different cards.

Naturally, if the card can't provide more than 60 FPS, it'll drop below that threshold during heavy processing, whereas the card that supports 200 FPS can be locked at 60 FPS and not drop during heavy processing because it supports... 200.

T-.0031

At least in Cod 1 and 2 there were things you couldn't do without solid 125 fps. Certain trickjumps for example.
Other than that I don't know, I only need the game to run smoothly and thatä's enough for me.

This is too funny to not share.

But surely IW made sure some people couldn't move faster, jump higher and all that simply because they were running at higher FPS?

That would completely ruin multipla-- wait, CoD4 is Modern Warfare, right? Never mind then.

I'm just seriously confused about how the FPS your computer is generating can, in any way, affect the actual speed and capability of the player's character. Once you hit the cap of what your eye is going to notice a difference over, then you don't really need to go any higher for any reason I can tell.

Was just referring to the silly amount of hacking going on in MW1. At least last time I played it.