suggestion needed, resolution and stuff

[alliennas]

Hey,
I have a laptop, so it can't handle LFS in very high resolution, or AA AF enabled.. So I'd like to ask your opinion, in what resolution I should launch it:

I have few options

option 1. 1280 x 800 without AA or AF and ~ 80-100 FPS
option 2. 1280 x 800 with 2x AA and 2x AF ~ 50-60 FPS
option 3. 1024 x 768 with 2x AA and 2x AF ~ 60-70 FPS
option 4. 800 x 600 with 4x AA and 4x AF ~ 50-60 FPS

any other option? I'm asking your opinion, because I heard, that human eye can spot 20-30 frames / second. Sorry for english
NVIDIA 8400M GS 128MB

[Whiskey]

e I heard, that human eye can spot 20-30 frames / second.

Thats right, but you have to bear in mind that your wheel (or game pad or whatever you are using) will be sent also at 20 FPS, so you can experience some lag in your controls/force feedback, which I notice when the FPS drops below 30

[MadCatX]

You seem to know how fast each mode runs on your laptop, so I don't really get the reason why are you asking. Since laptops have LCD displays, it's always a good idea to run everything at the native resolution of the display. In your case it 1280x800. LFS is far more CPU than GPU dependant and 8400GS is capable of running LFS just fine.

Claim that the human eye percieves everything with FPS higher than ~25 is a big generalisation. Motion-blured movie with 15 FPS can look more fluent than 30 FPS movie with no blurring at all. Games that require fast reactions need to run at about 50~60 FPS for most players to appear fluent enough. BTW it is also better to have stabe 50 FPS than spikes from 100 to 40 - that makes the game feel "weird" and partiucularly sudden drops from 60+ to ~25 are very disturbing.

[alliennas]

I received my answer after two posts.. Though so too, that high FPS is more important than good graphics..

[MadCatX]

How can the graphics look any bad at 1280x800 for you? I bet it looks far better than 800x600 with AA.

[alliennas]

In 800x600 it looks like it's blured, so no sharp edges are seen.. And in 1280x800 objects are sharper. When you look into monitor at 2meters distance, in high res it looks wonderfool, but not at 50 - 70 cm..