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Every article about Frame rate on the COLONIZED blog, newest first.
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RenderEvery game is limited by either the CPU or the GPU at any moment. A five-minute test with resolution and per-thread usage tells you which one is yours, and a table shows which settings to touch and which part to upgrade.
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RenderFrames per second count how many frames come out; frame time says how long each one takes. With a conversion table, the formula, what 1 % and 0.1 % lows are and why a high average can hide stutter.
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RenderA powerful graphics card running at 60 % is not coasting: it is waiting. The seven usual causes, from the CPU to the frame limiter, how to tell them apart with three tests and when the right fix is to do nothing.
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RenderA nine-step recipe for tuning the graphics of a big-world game: start from a preset, find the worst scene, identify the limit and touch only the settings that move that limit. With a table of what loads the CPU, the GPU or VRAM.
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RenderMeasuring well is what separates knowing from guessing. Which free tools to use, which numbers to watch (frame time, 1 % lows, per-thread usage, temperature), a repeatable test protocol for online games and how to read the graphs.
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RenderAn upscaler relieves the GPU; frame generation multiplies what you see, not how you respond. A decision guide: what to use depending on your limit (CPU or GPU), with what base frame rate, and why in an MMO it pays to think before turning it on.
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RenderThe display refreshes at one pace and the graphics card produces at another: that is where tearing and stutter come from. How vertical sync and variable sync (G-Sync, FreeSync) solve it, why a frame limit helps and which setup to start from.
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