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[Yngwie]

I'm just wondering... here's a little quote from a different topic:

M Needforspeed, on Feb 24 2012 - 03:32 AM, said:

...You just install the 60fpsaiv1 patch, and all the  65 cars will have it higher, though still bearable to look at them.And for once, you 'll take advantage of the 60 fps.

And here's my point: the 60fps really is an advantage! It's so much easier on the eyes than the 36fps (especially at long distances) and (for me) it's easier to drive more accurate.
Plus: it just looks so much nicer when liquid We've got car- track- and modupdates by so many gifted people like Ginetto, Jackseller, Laechele etc. which really gain from more fps, why watching them as a flip-book?

Is it about hardware? But if it is so: here's more threads about getting GPL running on temporary hardware (including Macs!) and OSs than too high system requirements.

To make it clear: I don't try to start a flamewar ; I'm just curious why so many (including new leagues) prefer 36fps. Is it about hardware, personal philosophy, analysis tools not working on 60fps?

[Paddy the Irishman]

From my point of view, with my equipment I am finding it difficult, if not impossible, to get it running consistently at 36fps even with small fields :-(  '60fps' delivers an occasional 40+fps on my laptop

[Pavel]

I use 36 fps because of AI.

[GrandPrixYannick]

I always drive on 36 fps, because I never take the time to download it. Next, I'm driving GPLRACER, which requires no 60fps patch.

[Kanzo]

Heresy! GPL is meant to be played on 36 fps because it was made that way! Why change something if it´s not broken?! Anyway, our eyes cannot see the difference anyway (36 fps is a LOT more than in movies!) AND it´s breaking our community. All you 60 fps hooligans, get back to where you belong! Is this stupid patch authorized by Kaemmer anyway???

[rcb]

My hardware can easily run 60fps and I don't use it.  I don't care for the "feel" of driving GPL with the 60fps patch, plus I primarily race the AI.


Curt

[Pete Gaimari]

To be honest. I don't see any difference. My system runs just as smooth with 36fps, and the AI aren't freaking out.

Don't fix what isn't broken.

[paul skingley]

Pete Gaimari, on Feb 24 2012 - 09:57 AM, said:

To be honest. I don't see any difference. My system runs just as smooth with 36fps, and the AI aren't freaking out.

Don't fix what isn't broken.

ditto

If 60 fps patch worked properly I would consider it, but it don't so no contest.


paul

[DRat]

I find the 60fps patches to be great visually, and it really does make a difference when you are right on the edge, to have a few more milliseconds of visual feedback.  But the AI does not work right and I do almost exclusively offline racing, so at 36fps it stays...

[svenvangent]

the same here i stick with the 36 fps because of the AI  

Edited by svenvangent, Feb 24 2012 - 11:15 AM.

[Mark Uribe]

Just because something can be done, doesn't necessarily mean that it should. Especially if it doesn't work 100% properly.

I also agree that 60fps does nothing but splinter the community. Can't wait for the v1 supporters to start having a go at the v2 supporters. I can hear it now, 'Bloody v2 users. Splitters.'

[Yngwie]

Mark Uribe, on Feb 24 2012 - 11:56 AM, said:

Just because something can be done, doesn't necessarily mean that it should. Especially if it doesn't work 100% properly.

I also agree that 60fps does nothing but splinter the community. Can't wait for the v1 supporters to start having a go at the v2 supporters. I can hear it now, 'Bloody v2 users. Splitters.'

I think you haven't seen the invisible 'irony'-tags at Kanzo's post.

Secondly this thread is the first time I hear the 60fps don't work properly apart from AI.

[roberto teso]

Why criticize something if you can choose?

Personally love 60fps patch, if you have a capable system you can experience a new level of... driving precision, detail and smoothness, our (artificial simulated) car feeling change in a radical way, a real step ahead. For now I race in a league where 36fps is required, so I stay here even when testing, to recreate the (almost) same feeling as in race.

If you love to drive offline with ai, stay on 36fps, nobody hurt or blame you.

And about rights, no one addon was "autorized" by no one, but if you modify a program to do something that was not intendend to from original programmers and don't break law rules, what did you have to complain to?

So, if you dislike a moddable program buy another and call for refund, if you dislike a mod, don't install and don't use it, but please, do not blame who spend his time to the benefit of others, try to use your time for anything else.

[jgf]

I've never jumped on the FPS bandwagon in any game.  We've been satisfied with 24fps for movies and 30fps for TV (in the US), yet we argue over one computer getting 48fps in a game vs another getting 62fps;  yes it proves one computer is faster than the other, but is that game actually performing any better?  According to the fps display in N2k3 I'm getting around 110fps, yet it neither looks nor performs any better than on my old W95 system where it seldom topped 40fps.  In other games, such as MS FlightSim, which allow you to cap the max fps, limiting the frame rate frees up processor power for running higher res or adding more detail (a high res screen at 30fps is preferable, to me at least, to a low res screen at 60fps).

In GPL I never bothered with the 60fps patch because 36fps works just fine ...AND because the patch is not 100% compatible across the board with all mods and I don't want to try remembering to enable it one time and disable it another.

[Yngwie]

jgf, on Feb 24 2012 - 12:51 PM, said:

...AND because the patch is not 100% compatible across the board with all mods

Well, it is, just depends on v1 or v2

jgf, on Feb 24 2012 - 12:51 PM, said:

and I don't want to try remembering to enable it one time and disable it another.

Using GEM and different Profiles for the mods (as recommended) you don't have too

OK, I don't want to convince anyone, just to point out there seem to be some misunderstandings about the 60 frames.

So the conclusion seems to be: the majority of people don't use it because they prefer racing against the AI?