• Psythik@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Input lag is massively affected by framerate and it’s easy to prove. Go into your PCs display settings and lower your desktop’s refresh rate as low as it’ll go (30Hz or lower). Then move your mouse around on the desktop and you’ll understand exactly what I’m talking about.

    Think about if for a minute: let’s say you click your mouse in between frames. That click isn’t going to register until the next full frame. The lower your framerate, the more likely this will happen, leading to more input lag. This is so obvious once you spend 15 seconds to actually think about it, that I can’t believe I even have to explain it to you.

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      Since when are mouse inputs tied to individual frames?

      Neither to action you perform nor the reaction from the Programm should be delayed, only the visual feedback you get.

      Sure some older Programms don’t use internal ticks bit instead use the framerate for that, which leads to a lot of issues with higher framerates as well, but they are few and far between.

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        Input in many games are tied to frames, and this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Sure, you could poll for inputs faster, but you have to pick some rate, and framerate is a reasonable one. It certainly shouldn’t be slower, and faster isn’t really useful because the player can only respond at framerate speed. Faster just creates more processing that needs to be done without much gain. Sometimes there’s interpolation to figure out what they would have clicked on/shot at at a sub-frame timing though, to make fast actions accurate, without a ton of extra processing.

        Physics is almost always not tied to framerate, because the player response isn’t what matters usually.

        Regardless, a longer time to see the response is equivalent to response time.

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        8 hours ago

        Who said anything about Windows? This test works in any OS or game from any era. Also, reaction time is not a factor here. It is still possible to click between frames depending on when you click. You’re grossly misunderstanding how things work, and honestly I don’t have the patience nor the crayons to explain this to you, so I I’m leaving this conversation now before we end up arguing over semantics that don’t even fucking matter in the grand scheme of things. ✌️

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            8 hours ago

            We’re not talking about mouse stuttering. We’re talking about input lag. See my other reply.

            Regardless, I’m not continuing this debate with you because you can’t even get your terminology right. How can you argue with me, when you don’t even fully grasp what we’re arguing about?