Poll: A Choice: Graphics vs FpS

[Durxom]

Now I may have said this before on some of my previous threads, but I love fighting games.
I may not be extremely good at them, but I love them just the same. So, I went and reinstalled Street Fighter 4 onto my laptop today, and with my latest driver update, things have been going a lot smoother than they used to(not incredibly so, but still smoother).

And I was just wondering if I should try taking my settings to the limit..sort of.

My settings have been at Medium for the longest time, and for the most part(depends on some stages sometimes), I usually on average get about 55-60 FpS and the game ends up looking like this:

Spoiler: Street Fighter 4: Medium Settings

But since the PC version has it's own special features with its added effects(which only work on high) I was wondering if I should use one of those and this is what I got.
For all of them, I got around 50-60 FpS, though I liked the Ink and Watercolour ones the best:

Spoiler: Street Fighter 4: High Settings, Ink

Spoiler: Street Fighter 4: High Settings, Watercolour

So what do you Escapists think? Should I stay with the constant FpS, or go with the prettiness at the cost of a few?

 

[demoman_chaos]

Constant FPS. Graphics mean nothing if it does run well.
Fiddle around and try to find a middle ground. 30 FPS is a good rate, TV shows run normally at 24 ish so 30 and up will be good.

 

[ayuri]

i never notice the difference when i play and never have to play with settings i get used to a lot of lag so there is no difference to me.

 

[little.09]

put as high as you can without it effecting FPS or it will kill your timing and it'll be unplayable

 

[AWDMANOUT]

I'm going with the Beatles' philosophy.

Stay high.

 

[ultrachicken]

How do you expect to perform well in the game if you don't have a good FpS?

 

[Durxom]

How do you expect to perform well in the game if you don't have a good FpS?

Well it's not that bad.

Medium: 55-60 fps
High: 50-60 fps

It's not that huge of difference, but I suppose everyone's right, with it mattering more since its a fighting game...still kind of sucks that I wont be able to use the PC versions special features.

 

[Cabisco]

Personally I've always loved graphics, their soooo pretty but I wouldn't let it harm the gaming experience. I'd just have what the machine can handle without fucking the experience.

 

[e2density]

Constant FPS. At no point should you ever sacrifice your potential gameplay for eyecandy.

 

[mad825]

.......why do people compress the pictures when they ask to compare the quality differences?

 

[More Fun To Compute]

You want a steady high framerate for a Street Fighter game. There is nothing to debate here.

 

[Etab]

55-60 compared to 50-60 is pretty much no difference.

Neither is screaming well above 60, neither is crawling below 30-40. If you ask me that's like no difference whatsoever. If it dropped to 40-50, I'd still be playing on high. If it was noticeably stuttery on high compared to medium, I'd leave it at medium.

Generally a dramatic FPS drop will be noticeable, if you can't notice it, then 99% chance of being fine. You could always do 2 half hour runs on each setting, the one you perform better on, stick to.

 

[Sevre]

As someone who plays mainly online, FPS is essential, I don't think I have ever set graphics to high on a game since D2.

 

[blankedboy]

Definitely performance over graphics. I can't stand it when my FPS is below 40. Even that's a bit low.

 

[hazabaza1]

So long as you can get 30+ keep it high.

 

[mikecoulter]

I normally change the settings for the best FPS. What's the point of anything looking pretty if the gameplay is pants? If your system can do it at a good framerate though, I'd go max all the time.