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I used to be a frame rate snob but owning a Steam Deck has made me realise the error of my ways (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago

That depends. VRR works beautifully when you walk through in-game locations and the framerate smoothly shifts up and down.

What it's absolutely shit at dealing with, is VFX that cause the frametimes to spike by an order of magnitude for just a frame or two. Something which is common in some games with a lot of player ability and enemy attack effects going off.

In these cases I will actually just turn VRR off, and play at lower framerate that are consistently achievable.

VRR is nice, and I absolutely do use it most of the time, but its very nature means that the latency in the human processing loop that is hand-eye-coordination becomes inconsistent. When it's working smoothly with the framerate smoothly shifting around, it's fine.

But the kind of hitching I'm talking about isn't the kind where the overall framerate shifts, but the kind where just couple frames take orders of magnitude longer to render, and that interfering with my hand-eye-coordination. I would have been in better shape to pull off a turn, shot, movement or whatever, had the game been running at that framerate the whole time.