Strange perception of FPS or am I just crazy?

[Jubel]

Recently youtube put in a thing where some videos now can be played back at 60 fps, it's great.

But it's strange, because the few games that I can run at 60+ fps, such as War Thunder or Blockland don't really look as smooth. They look almost identical to all my other games which run at 30.

It's a bit odd, as War Thunder runs with Vsync off, yet Blockland runs with it on and they both look like they're running at 30. But I really doubt Vsync is an issue when the 60 fps videos look fine on Youtube.

It's really hard to describe, but I want my games to look smooth dangit. Could it be something wrong with my drivers, video card, or just my mind being a little bit dumb?

video card is a radeon HD 5450 for reference. yeah it's a bit crap, but when i get fps reads of 90+ on war thunder and it looks like goshdarn 30, i get a little bit flustered.

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[Jonathant1]

Monitor's refresh rate or whatever?

[Daswiruch]

Monitor's refresh rate or whatever?

yeah it's probably set to something lower than you're getting

[Jubel]

Monitor's refresh rate or whatever?

I can set it to 59 or 60hz. Currently it's running at 60 hz at 1080.

yeah it's probably set to something lower than you're getting

I find that to be quite improbable, as 60fps youtube videos run as smooth as butter.

[ChexGuy331]

It's just you and/or the way you see things. Find some way of limiting War Thunder to 30 fps, you'll know the difference.

[Jasa]

A frame of pre-rendered video is a lot faster to render than a 3d environment which reduces the variance between rendering frames or jitter.
Let's say it takes your graphics card 1 ms to decode a frame of video but takes between 10 and 20 ms to render a frame in a video game.
The video will look overall smoother because the delay between frames is more consistent than the video game even though they're both running at 60 FPS. This applies with v-sync on and off.

[Bisjac]

are you knowing for sure you are getting 60? like you are running an app to see the fps right.

also im not trusting many of the videos right now making the transition. because what something was recorded in, is not the same as something it was uploaded as, is not the same thing something is being played as.

many people with super computers still require a dedicated capture card to actually record a high end game at 1080p@60
most of them had always captured video at 30frames since it was much easier, and youtube couldnt show any better anyways.
90% of the youtube "upgrades" are not real 60fps videos. they are 30fps videos playing at 60

[Jubel]

are you knowing for sure you are getting 60? like you are running an app to see the fps right

Sometimes I have FRAPS running and I always have a game telling me my framerate while I'm playing. Whenever I have both running in sync they're usually reporting the same results, unless something wacky happens.

[SpongeCraft1212]

Same here. Twitch streams on my iPod actually look like 60fps while on my computer, it's looks more like 30fps.