I have an innocent question that I'm purely curious of as somebody who doesn't play games. I've noticed many gamers have a frames per second display on their screen while playing their video games. Why is that? I feel that's like if every movie I streamed I put the variable bitrate and download speed on the screen, in the corner. It's entertainment, I just want to have fun, I don't really care about the tech details behind it.
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@gabek games aren't entertainment, they're srs bznz 😛 buying a faster PC has diminishing returns and low fps generally won't be eliminated. Not if Windows Updates have anything to say about it. As much as we wish to escape reality by going into the game, the lag will follow us there. At least the fps counter helps understand / debug lag issues in real time. When the lag issues are solved for good, we can turn it off.... But I doubt that will ever happen
