NTSC or PAL

[MenaceInc]

taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL

Quote:The PAL colour system is usually used with a video format that has 625 lines per frame (576 visible lines, 582 for System I, the rest being used for other information such as sync data and captioning) and a refresh rate of 50 interlaced fields per second (i.e. 25 full frames per second), such as systems B, G, H, I, and N (see broadcast television systems for the technical details of each format).

taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSC

Quote:NTSC color encoding is used with the M format, which consists of 29.97 interlaced frames of video per second. Each frame consists of a total of 525 scanlines, of which 486 make up the visible raster. The remainder (the vertical blanking interval) are used for synchronization and vertical retrace. Originally designed to be blank to allow for the simple analog circuits and slow vertical retrace of early TV receivers, some of these lines now can contain other data such as closed captioning and vertical interval timecode (VITC). In the complete raster (ignoring half-lines), the even-numbered or 'lower" scanlines (lines 21 to 263 in the video signal) are drawn in the first field, and the odd-numbered or "upper" (signal lines 283 to 525) are drawn in the second field, to yield a flicker-free image at the field refresh frequency of approximately 59.94 Hertz (actually 60 Hz/1.001). For comparison, PAL uses 625 lines (576 visible), and so has a higher vertical resolution, but a lower temporal resolution of 25 frames or 50 fields per second.

[THELUKESTIR]

(07-09-2009, 01:28 AM)Terminex Wrote: I never said there was a problem running games. I just heard that PAL games have a native FPS of 50, so they don't look as "nice." That could be untrue, but that's just what I've been told.

if your eyes see faster than 50 fps you are superman

[MenaceInc]

(07-11-2009, 09:39 AM)THELUKESTIR Wrote:

(07-09-2009, 01:28 AM)Terminex Wrote: I never said there was a problem running games. I just heard that PAL games have a native FPS of 50, so they don't look as "nice." That could be untrue, but that's just what I've been told.

if your eyes see faster than 50 fps you are superman

ugh, no he's not... :|

http://www.tweakguides.com/Graphics_5.html

If you really want to see the difference, then try out FPS Compare

It's a small download that renders 3d objects and you can change the fps.