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Tommas [ USF HunnyBunny ]
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Pitch Black
Joined: February 04, 2006
Posts: 581
From: Norway
|  Posted: 2007-11-02 11:27
What is this and what is the recomended setting? It dosnt stand anything about it in the manual.
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Rhiawhyn Zerinth
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Templar Knights
Joined: October 31, 2005
Posts: 257
From: I.C.C Deep space refueling station
| Posted: 2007-11-02 11:43
human eyes can only register 60fps. so going over that is a waste of cpu.
so its safe to say limit it at 60
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Little Pet Slinki
Admiral
Joined: April 16, 2006
Posts: 836
From: United Kingdom, South West.
| Posted: 2007-11-02 11:43
Frames Per Second.
Caps the rates that you draw information and create a "frame" per second.
For such a lower processing power game, I doubt you'll need to cap anything, But you can cap it for a, smoother ride, Instead of having a few seconds, then juttering back down to 30fps the next..
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Joined: March 22, 2006
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From: Philly
| Posted: 2007-11-02 16:54
Movies use 24 frames per second (FPS) so I don't see a need for anything higher than 30 personally...
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BackSlash
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Galactic Navy
Joined: March 23, 2003
Posts: 11183
From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2007-11-03 02:46
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On 2007-11-02 11:43, Rhiawhyn wrote:
human eyes can only register 60fps. so going over that is a waste of cpu.
so its safe to say limit it at 60
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Tch tch tch.
Human eyes sense no real difference at any FPS above 72. Anything below that and you can see a large difference.
The FPS limit in the options menu will limit your FPS to whatever it is set at. If you have a fast machine that is capable of running DarkSpace beyond the norm, then you can set this to something like 60, or 90, and once that FPS is reached, DarkSpace will no longer try to use as many resources as it can to max out your FPS.
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Shigernafy
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Joined: May 29, 2001
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From: The Land of Taxation without Representation
| Posted: 2007-11-03 03:05
I personally run mine at 30 because I don't really care about it being faster; I haven't noticed a significant visual difference if I let it go higher.
But setting it lower, as Jack says, is to keep your computer from trying to go as high as possible and thereby running your processor and graphics card at their maxes. I prefer a cooler computer not going for the max, so I keep my FPS limit low.
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