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Why do video game devs tie game mechanics to framerate? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by vpsxhtus@lemm.ee to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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I recently tried to play Wolfenstein New Order, I realized that unlocking the framerate makes the game break. why? (sorry for bad english)

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[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And not just easier, but cheaper. On lower end platforms it's expensive to do floating point calculations all over the place because you don't know how long it's been since the last frame. If you can assume the frame rate, you can get a lot of performance back too.