Recommended FPS in online games

I've heard that humans can't notice past 60 FPS but you need to remember that this must be the minimum FPS figure your game gives you. If it is an average of 60 FPS then obviously sometimes the game will run below 60FPS and you would notice this to be slower than an average of 100 FPS. If the game gave a minimum of 60 FPS then theoretically you shouldn't notice against a minimum of 100 FPS. The Toms's VGA chart shoud say whether it is low/min or average, otherwise it is normally average. I normally go for an average of about 80 FPS in first person shooters so configure your eye candy settings to get into this ball park area. A good app to check your frame rate is FRAPS if you haven't heard of it. It runs when windows starts (if you want) and gives you a frame counter in any game in the corner of the screen.

LOL 5 FPS. If you want to play a game at the pace you need to win (especially first person) you need to have a computer that isn't going to slow at all in any part of he game otherwise you will be at a disadvantage. If you keep the min FPS at 60 then that is about right, which equates prob to an average of 80 FPS. You can get away with lower but remember people who play and win regularly have got a fast machine. You don't have to spend a fortune, just turn down some of the effects, half the time you won't notice much difference anyway when you're playing a fast first person game. I play Battlefield 2 with all high settings normally but my machine packed up so I had to install lower spec parts and turn down the options but to be honest I didn't notice much difference.

A lot Fast pace FPS fraggers want 90FPS and no less.
Why? I think because it's avarage.
And most off all. FPS dips can go very low The FPS is very dynamic from 20fpsmin to 110 max and a average of 60. Very game dependant to.

That 20 kill the smootness because wenn that happen that offten because you are in a close ambush against mutiple player or NPC.
While staring at a wall gives you 150fps.

How ever in a tactical shooter you keep the enemy at range. No fraging slower pace and In CQC you need more FPS then in open field.

So I like to see the minimal FPS. Because some gamerig do
20 to 200 max while a other could do
50 to 100 max

So for me the minimal fps is important. And the FPS can be capped on 60 Vsync on.

there is an easy answer to this. play at what looks smooth. it will differ from person to person.

IMO just adjust you settings till your game runs to your liking although over 30FPS is preferable.

aoksmokedbacon, do you set your maxfps to 100. if not then i can tell you that there is not max fps limit in CS:S from what i have noticed. i am CPU limited to abotu 200 i think.

if you are talking about CS, then i am not so sure.

I was talking about CS1.6 which is limited to 100fps, a engine cap if i recall, you can turn on developer mode which allows higher max fps but it creates other problems like making you move more slowy.

developer 1 if i'm correct is the console command

CS:S is a more complex beast i think. In anycase for the best online performance you want to turn as much of the fancy stuff off graphics wise this will allow a more constant max FPS.

Looks around for guides to tweaking GFX settings

The biggest thing to remember is to unlock the refresh mode in XP using graphics tweaks or all this talk off 100fps + is useless as windows will lock you to 60fps cos its useless.