Higher frames makes the game seem faster.

For instance if you get 200+ frames and you're a scout in TF2 the game feels a whole lot faster than vs 60fps.

It's normal, if you want you can always cap your frames at 60 to go back to regular speeds.

 

The issue may be Fallout 3 having issues with the monitor or setup.. Weird.

Nevermind I get it.

 

Hey Scooby24, IMO, 120Hz will not speed up the flow/pace of the game or movie... If anything, it would be better viewing experience (like clarity with fast motions, and less of the eyes strains)... with the increased of monitor refresh rate compared to the ones with 60Hz.

 

Think about it, lets say you get 20fps, the game is really slow correct?

Choppy etc.

Jump to 60 and the game seems really fluid, go up more and the game seems more fluid/faster.

 

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Originally Posted by SecrtAgentMan Think about it, lets say you get 20fps, the game is really slow correct? Choppy etc. Jump to 60 and the game seems really fluid, go up more and the game seems more fluid/faster.

Well actually the faster the FPS the slower the game will seem. But it will be considerably more fluid and clear.
Same concept in your eyes. Your eyes capture more information when adrenaline is running through your body to give you a "Slowed" down vision. Pretty neat stuff. Same concept in Slow motion cameras except the effect is exaggerated by capturing in 200-1000 fps and playing back at a much slower FPS.

 

Thanks for the confirmation guys. It not bothersome and I'm sure I'll get used to it. I'll gladly take it over 60hz. I can't believe I've been missing out on this the whole time.

 

If you've played on a CRT, XD u'd know what u'd been missing. Anyways I am fine with 60 hz for now.

 

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Originally Posted by SecrtAgentMan Think about it, lets say you get 20fps, the game is really slow correct? Choppy etc. Jump to 60 and the game seems really fluid, go up more and the game seems more fluid/faster.

Increasing the refresh rate does NOT increase the framerate!! You have to already have over 60fps to notice a difference in displayed frames. Once a game is "playable" you'll notice no difference in speed.

If everything is literally twice as fast in Fallout 3 something is wrong.

 

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Originally Posted by Mygaffer Increasing the refresh rate does NOT increase the framerate!! You have to already have over 60fps to notice a difference in displayed frames. Once a game is "playable" you'll notice no difference in speed. If everything is literally twice as fast in Fallout 3 something is wrong.

Yeah I already stated that I dont think the OP noticed :|

 

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Originally Posted by Mygaffer Increasing the refresh rate does NOT increase the framerate!! You have to already have over 60fps to notice a difference in displayed frames. Once a game is "playable" you'll notice no difference in speed. If everything is literally twice as fast in Fallout 3 something is wrong.

I know, I was stating how higher frames would make it feel like the game is faster due to him having a 120hz monitor.

 

120Hz makes things look like that.
I remember watching The Dark Knight on a 120Hz Samsung TV, and holy crap; the Joker looked as if he was right in front of me walking towards me.

 

It doesn't just feel faster. It is faster. All I did was change refresh rate to 120Hz in NVIDIA control panel. Is there something else I needed to do?

 

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Originally Posted by Volvo 120Hz makes things look like that. I remember watching The Dark Knight on a 120Hz Samsung TV, and holy crap; the Joker looked as if he was right in front of me walking towards me.

Wait is this 3D or 120hz your talking about? 120hz doesn't have that effect..

 

Here's the difference in fallout 3.

You Tube

 

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Originally Posted by Scooby24 Here's the difference in fallout 3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyff2JY0-Dk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh2FdWC3K4k

Holy poop, that is the weirdest bug. I would report it to Nvidia and Bethesda although one of those companies won't really care. (Hint, I'm not talking about Nvidia)

 

Ya thats just a game bug, nothing to do with 120Hz monitor. That characters legs where moving way faster on the second video.

 

haha...

 

Fallout 3 for some reason ties the game speed into the framerate.

I take it you did this tweak so there wasn't a massive amount of mouse lag like tehre was for me:

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Originally Posted by TheReaperWaits A: open Fallout.ini in mydocuments/mygames/fallout3/ B: control - find iPresentinterval=1. Change this so that it =0. This will remove the inbuilt Vsync on the game. Im also curious to what you are getting.. Mine was solid 60FPS (everything max 1920x1080) with my SLI rig... went down to 50-60 during VATS.

or, what happened is that because of that setting, it glitches w/ the native refresh rate is set to 120, rather than 60.

if you can stand the mouselag I might recommend turning ipresentinterval off, then turning vsync on for the game.

 

Definately a game bug. Increasing the refresh rate isn't going to effect gameplay.

Sure there aren't any patches for Fallout 3?

 

That's just a config file edit that makes the game faster...

The "iPresentinterval=0" thing. It's annoying if you ask me. Go below 60fps and everything slows down. Above 75 and everything is too fast(though starts speeding up at 61+). Not to mention the game audio isn't in sync anymore.

 

The game isn't supposed to go faster, contrary to what a lot are saying. FPS is how many updates per second. If your FPS is really low, then a gun will just fire more than one bullet per frame, you'll move more distance in one frame, etc.

It's not supposed to be twice as fast. It may be a bug, since most games do only run a loop that restarts on every frame. You can make most (all) software run x times faster by adjusting its clock with software like Cheat Engine. This literally makes the game's clock run faster, so an ingame second passes faster than a real life second, and everything runs faster.

 

What do you think these settings mean? Also, are the prefs pulling from the mydocuments folder or the fallout 3 folder?

iAutoViewHiFrameRate=40
iAutoViewLowFrameRate=20

 

okay it's fixed. I changed the iFPSClamp=0 setting to 120 and now the physics are the right speed.

I read that if the FPS's drop below 120, though the physics should slow down. Granted it's hard to get my system to drop below 120 in this game, but there was one spot where it was going about 90 and physics seemed to be the same speed there too, so I think this is a good permanent fix for 120hz people.

 

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Originally Posted by CallsignVega Ya thats just a game bug, nothing to do with 120Hz monitor. That characters legs where moving way faster on the second video.

Well, it obviously has to do with the refresh rate. Its not caused by the monitor, but it is a bug that only occurs at 120Hz refresh.

Good to hear you got a fix, and double points for posting it so others can find it.

 

Well I forgot to update, I finally found a spot where FPS's dropped down to 60. The physics are tied to the FPS because with that setting at 120hz, it reversed the issue. At 60 fps the game was in slow motion.

I logged an issue with bethseda and I got back a response. After going back and forth the last e-mail I got said "I apologize, but this game is not supported on Windows 7"

How convenient.