25/26 FPS
8 years ago
Portugal

The rules for GTA III, VC and SA are that all runs must be done with frame limiter, exactly because of the reasons you stated (and others). By using frame limiter, the problem with players with higher FPS having advantages or disadvantages is removed, which makes every run comparable, and is obviously better for competition.

You can try to start a debate on the removal of this rule, but it has been done multiple times.

Lithuania

Everyone else who runs this game plays at 25 fps (except for the 26 fps scrubs that play on steam, of course Kappa ) so why can't you? Try harder.

Hampshire, England

This has been discussed countless times over the years, I myself argued firstly for uncapped FPS and then for 30 FPS but really it creates more problems than it's worth.

I just wish Rockstar didn't suck at programming

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Hampshire, England

It's a not rule anyone likes, it's a rule we need to have. No one "likes" playing at 25 FPS. it's just the only way to make any kind of speedrunning fair/unmodded/whatever else. The frame rate effects almost everything in game.

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South Georgia

Playing on 25 fps is a mess. But everything is bound to the fps and to have comparable runs we need to take out that variable. Especially since you are talking about ILs. They are timed using ingame time, which is affected by fps.

The only way to play in 30 fps and have runs on the leaderboard is to play the NTSC console versions.

But the lower the fps the faster you go in theory. So 1 fps runs could be fastest.

i guess, not enough hardware power of ps2 (all 3d gta games are developed for it originally) actually makes a lot of sense. my guess is, SA cant run at 30 fps on ps2, causing frame drops, so theyre developed it actually for stable 25 fps and ported it to other platforms later, without giving a single fuck about fps. as noticed, all gta games developed for ps2 are strictly tied to fps, if its even 30, its already makes cars accelerate faster, as well as spraying tags, but makes swimming slower. its the main affects of fps for speedrunning

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