Does High FPS make you a better gamer? Ft. Shroud - FINAL ANSWER

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akyu · 2021-05 · Recommendation

This could work for casual FPS games, but for competitive FPS gaming like Counter-Strike or Valorant, 20ms is a deal breaker for players who want to perform at a high level. Pro FPS players consistently choose monitors with the highest refresh rates available. This informal experiment is quite convincing Does High FPS make you a better gamer?: [VIDEO] A 60hz refresh rate corresponds to 16.67 milliseconds frame time, and a 240hz rate corresponds to 4.2 milliseconds. The issue here is not reaction time, but "feel". Even a moderately skilled player can test this for themselves by switching between refresh rates. Specifically the "feel" is the relationship between moving the mouse and the shift of perspective on the screen. Low refresh rates cause players to over correct their aim as the gaps between frames are larger, and the motion on the screen is less smooth.

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haiku2077 · 2025-07 · Reference

> I can buy that humans can see at least 120hz at a minimum. 60Hz is the generally accepted threshold, but I’ve long suspected that 120Hz has mostly imperceptible effects that are still noticeable, if rarely. There are videos on youtube showing people perceive differences at much higher framerates. e.g. [VIDEO] (long video, so you can skip to the end - they found that even casual players were performing measurably more consistently at 240Hz than even 144Hz.) Anecdotally, I recently switched to playing racing games at 165FPS and the difference is massive!

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Mathnerd314 · 2024-06 · Reference

Ltt has done some videos, probably there are other channels but I haven't looked. The results I remember are that 240hz was significantly better than 144hz, [VIDEO] but past that fps is sort of meaningless as the response time is slower than the refresh rate and you get artifacts. [LINK]

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