How much FPS do you need to notice this object? Since it shows on your screen for 1080/200,000 = 5.4 ms, you need 1000/5.4=186 FPS to consistently see it on your screen. It goes at speed of 200,000 pixels per second, while you have a resolution of 1920x1080. Imagine now an object that moves from the left edge of your screen to the right. Since the monitor cannot show 'half pixels', you don't need more than 1 FPS to see this as perfectly smooth as your display resolution allows. Now, imagine if a dot moves on your screen at speed of 1 pixel per second. Imagine if the scene is just Windows desktop, without any activity on it.

How much FPS you can see depends on the scene you watch. I want to make a very important statement here that people arguing about FPS often do not fully understand: Let's return to LCD monitors since that's what most people use today. The difference between 120 Hz and 240 Hz is still noticeable if you place two monitors close to each other and stare at them attentively, but it is very slim. When you set 85 Hz, flickering becomes bearable, but still noticeable. When you set your refrest rate on such monitor to 60 Hz, you can clearly see extreme flickering. Most good CRT monitors used to show 85-120 Hz. In dynamic scenes CRT and LCD monitors are similar in this regard. CRT monitors are good for this because their image is fully dynamic, that is every frame is drawn from scratch, while LCD monitors do not effectively draw frames that are not very different from each other, they only draw the difference.

On such monitor, even if your game has 1000 FPS, you will still essentially see 60 FPS. On such monitor, no matter how much FPS your application, such as video game, has, you will see only 60 Hz, and additional frames will be ignored. Now, where did this myth about '60 FPS' came from in the first place? Most LCD monitors today, let alone 10 years ago, have refresh rate of 60 Hz. There have been many reports from different reaction tests that people can react to visual signals in less than 1 ms - this corresponds to 1000 FPS. So, let's get started.įirst of all, the core statement is a nonsense. So many people keep repeating this myth all over the Internet, that I decided it would be a good idea to bust this myth right here, once and for all.

Ps3 eye cam not 60 fps