BULL FUCKING HORSESHIT! That myth was perpetuated on a Russian forum to justify why a player was playing Quake III at 20FPS while the rest of the people were playing at 60+.

oh god, please tell me you’re not serious.

Hahaha! *Facepalm*

I can’t play at 30fps, I just can’t… it’s way too choppy for my taste. I’d much rather have less effects etc. and smooth as silk, rather than an ultra-pretty slideshow.

And the choice of showing the 30/60 diff in a web browser, with an animated warrior is really a bad choice ! It’s where the diff is least visible. Choose rather a screen scrolling or a background move.
TV producers spend millions on creating automatic intermediary pictures on TV with great frame rates to enhance visual quality, to transform automatic 24 or 30 fps to at least 60.

The common mistake. Human eyes can only perceive _different_ frames or image up to 24 fps. But Seeing a video is not catching individual frames.
The sleekness of the video is very well noticeable, and the difference between 30fps and 60fps is huge. See a screen scrolling at the cinema at 24 fps, look at the background when the scene moves and not the forefront actors. Reaaly choppy ! Eyes are hurted. 30 fps a little better. 60 fps looks sleek. Even to sell TV with huge screen rates, vendors put aside 50, 100, 200 fps Tv and the diff is clearly visible by the common human.

There is a really sad side of this story. PC games have been running at 60fps for more than a decade. Yes, back in the time of the ps2, all mutli-platform games were running at 60fps on pc and 30 fps on the ps2 (or even worse, 25 fps in europe, PAL versions). It was sad. Then came the ps3 and games were still running at 30 fps. Now comes the ps4 and they still do not target 60fps? It is simply absolutely unbeleivably RIDICULOUS that it’s been so many generations of consoles, and it’s the same old bullsh*t all over again. Of course the new consoles have countless lame features comlpetely irrevelant to gaming, they will do your laundry for you, they can do anything and everything EXCEPT what their main purpose should be. Gaming quality at least rivaling that of the PC. (Before anyone mentions WASD+mouse, you can use gamepads wih the PC too. Both x360 and ps3 gamepad, though the latter requires some extra doing.)

But to be honest I wouldn’t lose any sleep over it. Removing screen tearing would be a bigger benefit in my opinion, even if it meant locking the frame rate to a lower value.

From these gifs, I suppose it doesn’t mean much.

But when you’re playing a game, it’s an entirely different story. It’s a small thing that can add a lot in the big run.