So I’ve been tweaking my Steamdeck settings and whilst I don’t consider myself a total noob to this…I’m legitimately not sure what the difference is between the two, or which is more important to the overall smoothness of the game I’m playing.

  • Clav64@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    With this in mind, I’ve read anecdotes that say you should have a monitor that ideally has double the refresh rate as the FPS of the game you’re playing. The thought being, I suppose, that as the monitor is refreshing more frequently, it will more likely catch a frame.

    I can’t find where I read/watched this, but if anyone has any input or tests to this 3ffect I’d be interested to see it again.

    • Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      That’s the Nyquist-Shannon theorem applied to framerates. You need a sampling rate at least twice the highest frequency of the Fourier transform of a signal to reproduce it without aliasing. For frames, that aliasing shows up as tearing or stuttering, it’s temporal aliasing not spatial aliasing that the various AA settings combat.