Thread 106183287

When and why did the obsession with resolution and "FPS" begin?

>>106183287 (OP)
CRTroon detected

>>106183287 (OP)
The 80s.
Many things were solid 60fps back then.

>>106183287 (OP)
If the guy on the right put $20k into plastic surgery he'd be incredibly handsome. Poor bloke, someone get him a personal loan.

>>106183287 (OP)
3dfx Vodoo

>>106183287 (OP)
When games started making real demands on hardware, and topping it off with offering a SVGA option, in the early- to mid-90s.
Up until then, most games were in mode-X VGA, which even a 386SX could hit 70 FPS (not 60) without problems.
Going by memory, Doom was probably the start of the slide, followed by games like NASCAR Racing, Descent and Slipstream 5000.

>things in high fidelity and smooth motion are…. LE BAD! YOU ARE OBSESSED
OP is one of the cucks pictured

>>106186162
I wouldn't consider doom for this, as it had a fixed resolution and a frame cap of 35fps (despite running on a 70hz mode). once we got games like unreal which could run at any resolution and scaled to any framerate, that's when it became possible for people to see how far they can go with it. that and gpus got exponentially faster during the early '00s