That's very interesting, I think a lot of us have collectively known that framerate affects enemies but being able to manipulate it brings up a good point. I think this may possibly be happening from an adaptive half V-sync or something along those lines that kicks in when losing window focus.

Me personally I think doing what is fastest in a speedrun whatever way applicable is excellent and exploiting what we have eg. RE3 using a specific version so music box is U D U U D U instead of random is something speedrunners do by nature. A shaky ground always comes out when it comes to PC versions because sometimes they can span so far from console versions (although I find that argument a bit silly because we use the best for x reasons always).

The other thing I see in this is it won't be faster in any way and instead is more of a consistency basis. So based on my own logic I completely see validity in allowing this but it also brings in a question of fairness. If this is something others can replicate on their own machines then I completely think it should be allowed, exploiting games is what we do as speedrunners and dropping frames is really just another part and most certainly not foreign in other speedgames like Half-life for example dropping to 5 frames for certain things mid gameplay.

Anyway that's just my 2 cents.

Huh. This is actually pretty cool. I quite hate that line, so that might be handy EleGiggle . I personally think this serves not as a matter of speed, but of consistency. If this is slower (which is possible), it's slower by the slightest of margins. But it doesn't matter in the long haul when you don't even lose milliseconds from it. You'd probably lose much lower than that.

As for using this in runs, I have no issue with you using this in your runs. I agree with Nattie though that if others are able to also do this, then it's fair game to use.