Why 60FPS? (1 Viewer)

[BrianB]

Just for clarity - that's correct in the UK, Simon, where TVs run at 50Hz. In the US, they run at 60Hz, so it's a choice between 30/60.

 

[Simon J]

Brian, yeah sorry, I should have mentioned that.

but, my point was it is not to do with interlaced fields or not, it is down to the rate at with the programmers decide to display new frames.

 

[BrianB]

Not quite, Simon - the reason it's 50 or 25 is completely down to the fact that it's interlaced frames - you cannot draw 'faster' than the speed the TV updates at. Certainly, you can process your game logic at intermediate framerates, but not draw.