Haste wrote:I agree with the historical section. I'll add the dates.
What information should be provided for each of these games?
-Official page?
-PC Gaming wiki?
-Links to forum threads/blogs/articles complaining about the cap limit?
-Means to contact the developer(s) of the game or give feedback?
At which point does a game have its place in the Hall of shame? Some workarounds can be used for certain games to avoid the FPS cap. (e.g. INI files, ingame commands, ...)
-Should these game be in the list?
-If they do, Should we document these workaround or link to them?
Some games can be uncapped but at the price of glitches that can be severe.
-Should we document these glitches?
Note: I haven't reviewed the games I posted in the second and third post of this thread. We should verify them before they can enter officially the Hall of shame.
All very good questions, and some thinking will be required. In general, workarounds such as a simple INI setting, that allows glitch-free 120fps operation, would most likely be omitted, but a game like Sky Rim has too many glitches at 120fps to escape scrutiny. I think the key benchmark to staying off the list is "Playable at 120fps on retail release date, in an unmodified installation, with only minor configuration changes", or something thereabouts. It might not be exactly this, but this would be the general idea.
There might have to be subjective judgement for borderline cases that may exist (e.g. games that are fully playable at 120fps one year after release date, only after heavy configuration changes, registry editing, and tweaks) but games that are frame capped and only glitchfree at 60fps, that are released today (2014) would deserve top placement very high in the Hall Of Shame.
Let's order orthographically.
It would take hours to research every single game, so let's at least focus on 2014 and 2013 releases, then go back to 2012. These are the priority games that needs quick entry into the "120Hz Hall Of Shame" webpage I'll create in the coming weeks.
Information for 120Hz Hall of Shame
- Game title
- Date of game release is important
- Links to people complaining about the cap is important (more the merrier, HardForum/OCN/etc posts, just paste links underneath the game title, or link them by number like link1, link2, link3)
- The rest of the information is a bonus, but not really needed unless it includes info on framerate limits.
Feel free to just spend a few minutes, to reply one, two, three, five, ten games per reply if you want. You can edit your original posts, edit the posts later to add more links, if you want. Don't overwork yourself.
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To begin with, the priority is a reasonably compact article that can loudly call out smaller number of major, big-name, recent game titles, that are not very 120Hz-friendly in an era of "Better Than 60Hz" technologies. Followed by a smaller section listing the rest of the games, as well as a historical section.