Gaming Calculator

If you play a competitive shooter at an old school resolution on moddern monitor, it’s possible you’ll see character models stretched out across display. That’s no bug, in fact, it shows a compromise between visual comfort and horizontal field of view. When you put a square image into rectangle, you’re inevitably battling geometry, which means … Read more

You’re playing a game on a high refresh rate monitor, sitting in a dark room waiting for the next frame. On screen the average frames per second looks respectable, and your hardware seem to be doing its job. Then, mid-combat, the camera swivels slightly, and everything stutters, just for a fraction of a second. If … Read more

Gaming for long periods of time causes neck strain, and it’s a function of how far away your screen is from your eyes and what resolution that screen is running at on what sized monitor. It might be lit properly and have the perfect frame rate, but its sitting way up in your grill causing … Read more

Transitioning from a regular 16:9 monitor to an ultrawide display is like learning to drive a new vehicle. Your new monitor’s increased width increases your peripheral awareness, benefiting simulators as well as competitive shooters. However, if you don’t change any settings, the transition will feel a lot more like learning to drive a different car … Read more

To calculate whether you’re losing frames due to normal variance, or something’s wrong and it could be hurting your performance, plug in your target refresh rate and how long you want to capture and let the calculator crunch the numbers (above). It will tell you what frames you should of getting versus what you actualy … Read more

A high-refresh-rate monitor? That’s for smooth game play. You tweaked your graphics settings for hours trying to eke out every additional frame. Load up an open-world game and wander into a crowded section of the city. Your frame rate plummets beneath adaptive sync floor. The screen stutters, immersion is broken. Low Framerate Compensation enters the … Read more

The enemy pixel dissapears from the screen as you fire the shot. Your satisfaction at hitting an opponent who didn’t see you coming doesn’t matter to them, they’re still cheated. What’s happened here is input latency: this slight delay between making your mouse move and seeing it happen on screen. When it’s high, it feels … Read more

But even if you’re running monitor with high-enough refresh rate for smooth rendering of on-screen images, you might find your aiming slightly out-of-whack. And yes, you probably checked your average frame rate and found it’s a solid number, so, all must be well. Nope. That wasn’t the issue. That was the average. What you couldn’t … Read more

The faster refresh rate monitor? You purchase it because you want smooth gaming action. The higher resolution display? You thought more pixels in a smaller space would work better. So you hook it up and set your frame rates to three hundred and sixty, and everything seem off somehow. Your input feels laggy different than … Read more

When you zoom in, your crosshair moves too slow or too fast and you miss. After a game update changes the way your scoped sensitivity work, this happen frequently. Your hipfire feel right. Aiming with a scope makes your mouse feel like an out of control beast. Chances are, your muscle memory isn’t the problem. … Read more

If you’ve ever played with someone who seems to lose their character’s rotation mid-turn or their crosshairs fail to track an object at critical times, you’re familiar with the symptom. This isn’t a hardware problem, nor are they doing anything wrong with their thumb. They’re experiencing drift, software misunderstanding the motion of your body as … Read more

In a shooter game, for example, spinning your character twice instead of once result in an input error. It’s not that you’re unlucky; it’s that physics met firmware. You hit the key with your finger. Metal contacts bounce. The controller see two presses even though you meant only one. And that’s why, if you want … Read more