OUR FRIENDS in the USA have just reported that the upcoming Doom 3 will be capped at 60 frames per second (FPS) and no more and less then that.
This may come as shock simply because we believe that there are only a few cards that can do so many frames. A friend got the idea that this means that there will be no benchmark for Doom 3 but we are quite sure that it will be some kind of Timedemo, as this is a game tradition. The only question is, can you actually override its settings to make it run more or less then 60 FPS? A Viennese boffin here at the Wien Technical University told us in an interesting presentation about perception in real time computer graphics that 60 FPS would be a necessity for 60Hz monitors and that TFT displays are not so good for gaming simply because they usually gives you less then that -- about 40Hz he implied. Well as for the magical 24 FPS that you see in movies he said that films use motion blur, high contrast, and fast camera that blurs the picture but still gives you some great effects. Basically movies cheat.
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This may come as shock simply because we believe that there are only a few cards that can do so many frames. A friend got the idea that this means that there will be no benchmark for Doom 3 but we are quite sure that it will be some kind of Timedemo, as this is a game tradition. The only question is, can you actually override its settings to make it run more or less then 60 FPS? A Viennese boffin here at the Wien Technical University told us in an interesting presentation about perception in real time computer graphics that 60 FPS would be a necessity for 60Hz monitors and that TFT displays are not so good for gaming simply because they usually gives you less then that -- about 40Hz he implied. Well as for the magical 24 FPS that you see in movies he said that films use motion blur, high contrast, and fast camera that blurs the picture but still gives you some great effects. Basically movies cheat.
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