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Starfield’s 30fps frame rate is “a choice,” God of War dev says (www.pcgamesn.com)
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[–] 34 points 3 years ago (13 children)

What irks me is when game developers ties the physics engine to the framerate. We all know this will cause issues down the road, could we just.. not?

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    Not doing it also causes issues in the form of micro stutters when some but not other frames have updated physics or not. Frame pacing is hard, and locking everything down happens to be the only sure-fire way to completely eliminate display issues. But then, of course, you have a locked frame rate.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I imagine there is some reason we still see this. Any devs in the Industry lurking?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'm not in the industry, but I've dabbled in Unity and that's just kind of how it works by default. You create a game object and it gets an Update() function that is called once per frame. You're encouraged to perform calculations and update it's position in that callback.

    You're supposed to use Time.deltaTime to scale your calculations based on how long it's been since the last frame.

    But that takes effort and it's very easy to just not do that and your game will still work fine in most cases.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Is this really a thing lately? Maybe on some Switch games, but I think most modern games can have a dynamic framerate.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Remember Red Dead Redemption 2? On PC, your stats depleted faster the more FPS you had so with 60FPS you'd get hungry twice as fast as with 30FPS. Iirc even the sun moved faster so a day was only half as long.

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