Why Are Frametimes Important?
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·Techquickie
·2018-05-06
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thanks for watching techwiki click the subscribe button then enable
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notifications with the bell icon so you won't miss any future videos so it's
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usually a frustrating experience when something begins to stutter you don't
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want to happen while you're trying www post Techquickie when you're shifting
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gears to manual car or worst of all in the middle of a big match and while it
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seems like pc gamers are locked into constant battle with their bank accounts
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to buy the hardware that will give them the highest frame rates possible many
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people still experience stutters and hitching even on high-end systems that
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seemingly should be able to run just about anything without breaking a sweat
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so why does this happen well it turns out the frame rates aren't the only
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factor that will determine how buttery smooth or uh salady choppy your gaming
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experience will be you also need consistent frame times to avoid game
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breaking lag in the form of stuttering think of it this way suppose you're
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driving between atlanta and charlotte a 240 mile trip and you want to get there
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in four hours one way to do it would just be to drive to smooth easy 60 miles
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per hour but if you have a death wish and a lot of money to give to the cops you could
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drive for two hours going one mile an hour and the other two going
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119. assuming you arrived in charlotte alive
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you took the same amount of time to get there either way but the second option
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was probably far less pleasant unless you really love just stomping all the
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pedals in your car so this is what's happening when you get
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inconsistent frame times your graphics card could be spitting out the nice
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smooth 60 frames per second you covet when you check fraps
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but instead of each frame being displayed on your screen for the same amount of time
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some frames might stay on the screen for far longer than they should
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so why do these huge variations happen even on powerful hardware well spikes in
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frame time that cause noticeable stuttering are usually because of high
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latency with some tasks your graphics card is trying to accomplish and i'm not
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just talking about trying to render a scene that suddenly become more
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processor intensive because an explosion just happened or something
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that usually manifests as a drop in frame rate that makes your game look
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less smooth but not as stuttering instead things that can cause actual
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latency include problems with your drivers not being optimized well for a
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certain game your GPU having to suddenly pull a bunch of assets at once from your
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video memory issues with a pci express bus that can
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be caused by poor motherboard design or something like an adapter putting lots
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of data through it or even delays while your gpus talk to each other to attempt
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to sync up properly if you're rocking two or more video cards on that note
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inconsistent frame times are an especially common issue with sli and
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crossfire setups and because poor frame times aren't a direct result of how
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difficult it is for your GPU to crunch numbers and render the frame simply
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turning down your in-game settings may not help in the same way it would if
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you're just trying to get more FPS so then is there a way to fix this
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problem well it's difficult to recommend a universal solution since poor frame
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times are often specific to a certain game on a certain model or brand of
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graphics card but some gamers have have success limiting the frame rate outside
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of their games using either the default settings program or a third party
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utility this can be helpful if your high frame times are being caused by hardware
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bottlenecks like a busy GPU that can't handle all the requests your CPU is
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making but this also means you may have to settle for a less visually appealing
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experience meaning this problem can be a tough nut to crack especially if your nutcracker
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costs 500 and is aggressively overclocked
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so have you ever had to control multiple computers at once but hated dealing with
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the tedious switching between different keyboard and mouse combos well then
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Windows mac and Linux computers you get features like the ability to share from
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