Driver: San Francisco Was Delayed To Hit the 60 Frames Per Second Sweet Spot

X360A writes:

"Ubisoft Reflections held back Driver: San Francisco to achieve the Holy Grail of 60 frames per second for its open-world rendition of San Francisco, something incredibly challenging for a large-scale environment, Creative Director, Martin Edmondson told X360A."

[RyuDrinksTheDew]

oh wow, sounds awesome!

graphics might not be top notch, but 60fps makes most games look a lot better.

still on the rocks about this game though.

[Persistantthug]

Can you notice the difference if the game was played on an old school 4:3 analog TV?

[damnyouretall]

i remember bioshock and its 30fps and 60 fps option. i could barely tell the difference in the graphics it was very subtle. i didnt know shit bout this game, but they have been developing it for 5 years and its a 60fps open world. i loved the first driver and im gonna check this out if it plays like the first one.

[hennessey86]

that it plays like a driver game should. Looking at the incar animations and the gameplay so far it looks perfect

[Seijoru]

The option was to disable v-sync which makes the framerate very variable between 20-45fps.

[ShinFuYux]

Well, you couldn't really tell difference unless you had a television that had a fast refresh rate, something around 120hz would be the ideal tv.

60 frames per second really makes everything move smoother, more realistically.

[cannon8800]

120hz means that the screen refreshes it self from top to bottom/bottom to top 120 times each second. If you're playing a game that is locked at 60 frames per second, there will be hardly any difference. Maybe a better looking image with more fluid movements and less screen tearing because the tv is refreshing twice for every frame the game renders. :D

[STONEY4]

The Bioshock thing was a v-sync option. Even with it off it wasn't 60fps, but it was much smoother. It gave you the choice of a higher framerate versus zero screen tearing. I couldn't see much tearing even with it off though, and the added framerate was worth it.

[theaceh]

very nice call.

I wish EA would have done the same with shift 2. After playing GT5 and FORZA 3 for a few months, I recently rented shift 2 and could not get myself to play the game for more than 5 minutes. I returned the game to the video store that same evening.

60 fps really makes racing games shine.

[ShinFuYux]

Liars only burn hell.

[hennessey86]

is like driver should be im not to bothered about graphics because driver was always about those fantastic driving physics.

[andrewsqual]

So the new Ghost Recon is gonna be 60fps then and Am I Alive is going to be 240fps. Awesome logic

[TheTruth89]

good