How many of you are getting sub-par framerates?

[ishanz]

Meaning less than ~30FPS (or very stuttery gameplay). I don't know if it's just my PS3, PS3 in general, or if the game is too taxing on hardware universally. Even in regular situations when walking around, there is a fair bit of slight stutter.

 

However, explosions, high-speed motion blur, or more than 5 cars on-screen at once are really what kills frames. The online game I was in with SB, Piggus, Lynk, and Ska was a game constantly below 30FPS. It was a rocket launcher team deathmatch in Algonquin with medium traffic.

 

Looking at videos on Youtube (yes Youtube), I can see a very big difference in framerates. I'm going to visit a friend soon to check out how GTA4 runs on his PS3.

 

It's not game-killing, but it really is bugging me. I wanna know if there are other people out there that also seem to have bad FPS, generally.

 

This is a repost from GTAGaming.

[mupet0000]

I also have bad fps even when walking round, it was only in multi player (just me in the server) in a tunnel with no cars that I got what felt like a smooth fps (like 40-50). The game will run at 30fps a lot of the time but when things happen or theres a lot of cars it gets quite low.

 

I watched video's on youtube and they seem way smoother than my game. Ps3 40GB here.

[johno.]

Yes I also have framerate issues on my ps3 40gb.

 

Should be a poll.. mods?

[The Juice]

Mine seems to drop quite a bit when there's a lot going on at once, multiplayer is pretty bad too.

 

My mate says his is fine all the time, I might have to check it out.

 

Both on 360 version.

[ishanz]

Poll would be nice I guess.

[Vandangler]

According to the following website:

 

http://community.eu.playstation.com/playst...hread.id=736158

 

the PS2 Smoothing option must be DISABLED as it's a known bug causing frame rate issues on the PS3.

 

Not sure if it'll help but it's worth a try.

[Mafiozo]

Yes, same here. bad framerates most of the time. 40gb ps 3.

[Wonda Boy]

 

I dont have a problem but I know alot of peeps have. Its terrible that a CONSOLE stutters, then again this is just a Mid Range PC under the bonnet with a decent CPU!!!!

[ishanz]

I generally don't have much of a problem with less-than-amazing framerates. But in GTA4, it's just terrible. For a game as fast-paced as this, it really does need more than 20FPS to keep immersion.

[Aus_Karlos]

All PS3 games are capped at 30fps, its so the hardware can do other things than just to process more fps.

But i also have low fps it barely reaches 30fps, but i find it doesn't drop to low even when 5 cars blowup at the same time.

I think its all to do with the World Blur they added at the last minute, If they remove the blur it will be at 30fps constant.

[ishanz]

Where'd you get that from? DMC4 and COD4 are prominent counterexamples to that.

 

Anyway on-topic: Take

for example. Mine never runs that smooth. There's always very noticeable stutter no matter where I am, what I'm doing, etc. It only runs that smooth VERY rarely.