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Originally Posted by lipidfats
Not sure you fully understand what the cap issue does... Sure, videos play fine, but that's not what many are complaining about. I don't play games, but for those that do, it's a huge deal. The high quality games will stutter/chop and can't be enjoyed no matter how you try to spin it. Not to mention there is touch input lag because of this limitation, which is my biggest problem with it. Perhaps if you tried another similar device like the Droid Incredible, you'd see just how laggy the EVO is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j7cYb7EtUM
The above video illustrates how it messes with gaming, but it's an issue in regular use too. At least they fixed it in the app tray and in some other areas with the latest ota update.... I was completely  ed by it previously, now just partially...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilx_cpGZczM |
Ok, I understand what you are saying but that touch input lag is response not fps. It is lag yes but I am going to blame most of this on the inefficiency of the evo against the others. Also the 2nd video showed the evo had lower overall benchmarks...had it sustained 30 fps it would have not looked so laggy. If you have a pc or laptop that you game on use any game with a console or modify a setting file and cap it at 30fps use an in game frame counter or fraps to verify the speed and check it out. Afterward if you have the right hardware to rape out the frames set to 60 and then after remove the cap or set it to a value you would not be able to sever.
The more detailed graphics suffered from lack of speed or"difference" should I say. If you noticed the simple graphics, the gears were smooth. Choppy/tearing comes from either frame spikes (severe difference) or such high speeds that your brain basically picks frames here and there because the detail is much more evident and appears to lag.
So my take is that it would be best to cap the phone at 60 due to refresh but ONLY when froyo is out for this phone and the system delivers enough to deliver consistent higher fps. I would hope.
I would be interested to know if one of you rooted users have benchmarked froyo on the phone and got the insanely high increase in processing power. Im half tempted to put froyo on mine look at the processing speed and benchmark at 30 and 60 caps.
My bet is that HTC saw the phone would suffer frame spikes within the ui or browsing at first and the cap would provide the smoothest environment possible for the general population.
Seems like protection from severe frame spikes.
Bye bye WM, it was fun.