Thread: unlimited frame rate option has been removed from the client on 5.0

Originally Posted by Kaethra

I explained this already, but you decided to resort to ad hominem (hence the retaliation in kind). And since you question my experience, know that I have experience with Unreal and with other proprietary systems. My latest project that I am apart of utilizes frames to synchronize events.

However that project is not network based (as it doesn't utilize a network for any function). GCD are handled by the server itself, as are all of the skills and abilities. Its only movements (but not position) that would affected by frames.

Perception of those movements are mostly irrelevant. Your brain will fill in the gaps and it is very good about doing that. But if the framerate is lower, you will have a noticeable degradation in precision, and in some extreme cases your character movement will be slower. The latter only happens if the local framerate drops below the server tick rate. In which case the server will interpret the commands coming intermittently unless the game has a means of compensating for that. Most don't.

See, this explains your point much better. Your first post made zero sense in context to the conversation.


My point was never that higher framerates are bad. It was that running a higher framerate when your monitor doesn't support it does not give you an advantage in this game.