So i' just got a 980. I'm getting 80-90 FPS it looks great. My monitors are 60hz monitors.
Does this mean i'm not actually seeing 80-90 fps, due to the monitors limits?
Most ppl don't have 120 hz monitors that boast such high FPS...Does this mean regardless of FRAPS saying i'm getting so many FPS it's just psychological? and that i'm not seeing that many...
If your monitor is 60 Hz you are seeing 60 Hz. There is still a benefits if your cards can handle more than barely 60 fps though (google frametime).
Btw: If your performance is so good you could try downsampling, its basicly the only thing that helps after 4x msaa (in my opinion) and is an easy fix for ports without proper AA.
your game is running at 80-90 fps that means that not all of the rendered frames are not being shown on screen because the panel can only show a new image once every 16.7 ms or 60 images in one second- those extra frames never make it to your eyes- however this is better than player at below 60 because every new frame is different from the last- sub 60hz images will repeat.
However, it's usually better to have a game running at something like 121fps to account for uneven frame timings. Frame timings are essentially the pacing of how frames are sent to your monitor. For example, if you are getting 60fps, it's possible that 30 of those frames come in the first 1/4 of the second, and the other 30 comes in the latter 3/4. It's difficult to measure - but this is why some gamers set a FPS limit so that there's no tearing, but also so that the frame timing can be somewhat minimized.
yes in a way. the higher fps you have also means that the frame took less time to render- depending on the game engine this could mean that from the time the frame is requested to the time it makes it to the screen is sooner