oh that'll do the trick get him drinkingthata couple of months back nvidia publishedthe data from a study showing thatgamers running on high refresh ratemonitors with faster pcs were fraggingmore noobs than their pleb counterpartswho were running low refresh weightmonitors and slower computersof course their conclusion was everyoneshould buy better gear to make them abetter gamer the problem with theirstudy is that while they did find acorrelation between people with betterequipment and people with more skills acorrelation does not mean causation soa lot of arguments get made about thesubject of high fps and high refreshrate gaming and how many fps is enoughbefore the i can't see a difference butone of the key components of a fasterrefresh rate display is not in fact thesmoothness of the animation and it issmoother please don't be ignorant butrather the frequency with which your eyereceives updated information about thewhereabouts and activities of yourenemies so today's video is all aboutdetermining quantitativelyhow much faster a gamer with a 240hzdisplay will react versus a gamer with amore traditional 60hz display andwe invited a special guestgavin free of slow-mo guys and roosterteeth fame is going to help us operatethis thing to do iti don't know how to operate this thingthank goodness he's here i'll get youback speaking of thank goodness thankgoodness for our sponsor moss hasupdated their packs once again andthey're combining the best features fromtheir grande and their black pack intotheir new moss pack v4 check it outtoday at the link in the videodescriptionfirst we want to know if our 240 hertzgamer sees the enemy sooner that is tosay we want to know if the up to 12milliseconds of extra informationactually helps him or her react fasterwe also want to know on average if thesmoother animations and the morefrequent updates allow our gamer testsubject here to kill the enemy sooner ormore reliably so here's our test rig onthe right hand side we've got our enemyor our target which is running a cs goserver on our high speed local areanetworkevery test needs to be run exactly thesame way so what we'll do is positionthis computer's character in this cornerright here so it's in exactly the samespot then we'll use this readout in thetop left to make sure that our weapon ispointed at the exact same pixel thenwhat we do is we take these two contactsand touch them together which lights upan led on our makey makey right herethat is going to synchronize with ourhigh speed camera when exactly ourtarget begins moving without making anynoise that will alert our test subjectso we're going to be using the samemonitor from acer for both our 60 hertzand our 240hz tests since the onlyvariable that we're trying to isolate isthe refresh rate each of our testsubjects gets two practice runs at 60hertz to ensure that they're familiarwith the test then we'll follow withthree runs at 60 three runs at 240 andthen four runs two at 60 and two at 240where the test subject isn't told themonitor refresh rate each timeso the way that this works is once againi'm pointed at exactly the same spotexact pixeland thened without me being able to see whathe's doing starts running at some pointnow let's talk about our timingmechanism so it's probably a littleoverkill but this here is awhat is this walk us through this is thephantom flex 4k it's what i've used fora long time on my channel it's about afive year old camera at this pointthere's not really any storage mediathat can write so fast when you'retaking in that many images so it recordsto an internal ram buffer so it's alwaysrecording five second buffer and thenall i do is just stop it and it keepsthe previous five seconds then we recordthat onto some very fast flash storagethese are expensivesadlyso the way the camera works speed wiseit has a certain amount of throughput itcan put in and then you just find thecombination of resolution and speed thatyou want so if you lower the resolutionthe frame rate goes higher sure so whatare we going to be using well that's upto you really i shoot everything at 4kwhich will give us a max of a thousandwhich would probablydo pretty well in these lightingconditions it's kind of dark at 2000 andalso we are relying on the light comingfrom the monitors which i was slightlyconcerned about but it looks like it'snot too dark okay that's how much lightwe have right and then watch it alldisappear as the frame goes off this islike how a fly sees us like that'sthat's what i always think of yeah it'slike we just look like that to flyand they can just they can just likecasually fly off and flip us off and wecome nowhere closeshould i do like a self slap or someoneelse could slap you yeah do you want youwant to slap me you know it has to bepretty hard rightwe should do some test runs here[Music]some tests you set up all this test justso you could screw around with a highspeed camera right now this isirrelevant you just wanted the highspeed camera to get slapped aroundthat's the whole reason you're herethat's the whole thingthat's why okay all right slap it[Music]ohoh you know what i missed the triggercan we do that again you did not youlike you like dragged some skin withthat one look at thatyou know we could we could do new staffhead shots like everyone's face it'sjust completely messed up okay practicerun time you need to have like bothhands over there so i have no movementindication as to when you're when you'repracticing you want me to trigger evenif you miss i mean when you miss i meanif you miss that moment when you invitesomeone out and they likeinsult youbut bonding[Music]so it takes me a good long while toactually even start tracking the targetthat's what's going to be interestingabout this test with the additionalframes that you'll get what was i doingwhat was i aiming at i get the cari think this video is really aboutexposing flaws in counter-strike's hitdetectionwhat did you hit there because i didn'tsee any impact and it looked like it wasright on him in your defense thank youso what we learned from our first run isthat the experiment looks good but we'regoing to do a remedial test here withthe walking speed of our target sloweddown from 320 to 220[Music]but we also want to try a remedial runherewith the walking speed of our target at220to see if that increases our subject'schances of killing the target so let'stry one more time hereokaythat's definitely easierone of the measurements i'm reallylooking for here is time to kill becauseyou're still gonna clearly be faster tokill the target it's just a matter oflikewow i reallyleft this to the last moment hereohwhat did i hit did you have a metalskull what was that probably a helmetnot a metal[Laughter]i think a thousand is doing it for you ithink so we're cause that's onemillisecond there's nothing that anyoneeven advertises as lower than onemillisecond and i think that'sconsidered well beyond theability of a human to perceive anyway italso makes the math really easy yeahthat's that's actually the biggestfactorthank you so much again by the way forlike being here this is oh i love thisokay good because your your insight herehas actually been instrumental alreadyto us just kind of understanding whatwe're doing yeah this is this is superfun for me rock paper scissors for whohas to go firstdo you the kind of person you like sayit as you do it yeah you just rock paperand then you goyou go on paper no no on scissors okaynotrusty rockall right okay so i'm first one thingthat's really important is that ed isgonna mix up his timing for when hestarts the test so i can't predict whenthe target is going to start movingokay i am officially ready me too[Music]shoot but not hit heyoh my god how did i miss thatif it makes you feel any better this is84 seconds of you missing[Music]okaydo you find that when you're in deepconcentration and you're waiting for itto happen absolutely do you find thatyou can start overthinking when it'sgoing to happen and then you might missit because you're thinking too muchabsolutely[Music]oh shoot did you just fall out of thezone right there at the end i don't knowwhat happened to the eye that seemed tobe the longest it took you to catch upwith himinterestingwe are now up to466 gigs oh wow okay that's only likeless than 20 seconds[Music]ohcome onget in theregotchaokayoh headshotshoot hit him[Music]okay[Music]hey are you readywait for itnow i'm ready[Music]you got a piece of him[Music]hey you got him[Music]not bad i feel like i'm improving[Music]see i'm happy with my reaction timemy aim is anus it was verytight anusnot badwait a minute what just happenedi pressed playandoh my god i am so sorry this is my bestattempt and he deleted iti kind of feel like we should go untilhe gets a really good run[Music]the 60 just don't do it for me[Music]wowcould that have been more last minuteno i don't think so i don't even see thebodyoh that was clean that might be myfastest one yet yeah mate make sure yousave that one yeah yeah got you fam welike that onei amready as peniswhat does that mean oh it's like myselfdoes that count[Music]i've just got wait i went way ahead ofhim that time so your reaction was fastbut not accurate i was trying to go forlike a wicked snapshot but uh i don'thave that abilityi'm literally the most experienced icould possibly be and that was my worstattemptthis is so interesting[Music]oh wait do you want to do some practiceruns or have you already tried it a lotof timeswowall rightoh my god ohohohmr confident over here i think that wasactually back and forth like i think imight be swinging faster i see at leastfive tears when i playyeah i think we can call that a piratewait so you want me to not to save thatone yeah i don't bother[Music]now let's run freerightuh yes[Music]all right everyone go home guys that wasitalready moving before he's even fullycome outthat's by far the fastest reaction we'veseenwell boom headshot as the kids say isuppose the kids 15 years ago[Music]not bad missed the first shot oh boohoowhatever[Music]not bad[Music]humiliationno waydid you hit me yeahfelt like it okay last chance[Music][Laughter]wowthat wasn't good wowwhat are you doingthat was a headlightso it has been quite a few hours thetime is now11 41 and we're all still at itespecially ed who has been painstakinglycompiling the data and is now sharing itwith us so your average for60 hertz is 257 yeah is that in framesyes 257 but that's 257 millisecondseffectively okay and then 194 for 240hertz so that doesn't even make sensehow you could be that much fasterbecause theoretically you should onlyhave at best a 12 millisecond advantageand then in the blind i wasquite a bit slower interesting so i amthe slowestby a long shot oh you're up in the 300ssometimes yeah that's an eternitynow it could be that you waited to seethe person quite a bit more and thenmoved to aim i guess sonow you were the most consistentconsistently averagei feel like whenever i saw anything iwould just kind of spasm my hand awayand try and just catch up with it laterbut i think that's just down to me asjust not being very goodmaybe it was more of a focus thingyeah so your times to killwere actually pretty good on the 240hzthis one was actually freakishly fast on60854 milliseconds and when you considerthat i had a316 millisecond reaction time itactually only took mehalf a second to kill the target once istarted moving that's really goodactuallyyour next result was kind of terriblenot as good as a second and a half sooverall kill-wiseyou're the sameuh i missed a runand i'm at fivesowe'reall pretty terriblelook at his fake humilityyeah i feel like there's so many morevariables that aren't measured here likehow in the zone we were and like whatthe the other person is psyching us outwhat does that mean oh it's like myselfand just the pressure building upi feel likeon my last attempt i was always freakingout way more than my previous ones yeahactually that's another thing too likeif i missed one i was like tense yeah onmy next ones i got to make up forfor a bad one if ionly concentrated on being ready for theguy to come around the corner and thatwas all i was thinking about i couldonly do that for like four seconds untili was thinking about doing that and itwould just wreck my concentrationi mean obviously we're watching this inslow motion so it'svery exaggerated but thismakes me wonder how i ever playedanything at 30 frames a second and iregularly dolike if i'm playing gta 5 on xbox that'srunning 30. this may have ruined me evenmore for refresh rates and frame ratesalright so gab flew home last night butfor giggles we spent some more timeanalyzing the data and found some reallycool thingsoneeveryone's reaction times were better at240 hertz and strangely by more thanjust 12 millisecondsif i had to guess i'd say part of thisis because it's easier to track wherethe target is headed and then decidewhere to move the cursor before youbegin to movetwoevery single test subject was morelikely to kill the opponent at 240 hertzin the limited amount of time that theyhad and threethe way that high refresh rate affectsyour gaming could end up being heavilydependent on the way that you aim sotake a look at this map of all of myshotsmy accuracy and my precision were bothactually very similar at 60 versus 240hertzso regardless of refresh rate i'm takingmy time tracking the target and onlypulling the trigger when i think i'vegot a clean shotand it's funny it's not something i'veever thought about but it makes sensenow that i'm looking at it because i'mtotally one of those jackasses thatgrabs the sniper class so everyone elsehas to play medic or whatever so for merevealing my position is always a factorin the back of my mind don't pull thetrigger unless i think i'm going to hitsomething all right now let's look atedzeled's more of like a flick shot kind ofplayer so he tends to react and shootfirst and figure out the other detailslaternow as the most skilled of our testsubjects he clearly benefited the mostfrom high refresh rate and said that ithelped him time the release of his shotmuch better as he pannedacross his targetfinally there's gavin fairness to gav no one really aimsonly with their mouse like it's mucheasier to strafe while you're trying toline up a shot like this but his resultswere still far and away the worst atboth refresh rates with that said at 240hertz his precision was much higherso if he was a little closer to thetargetthe improvement in his consistency wouldhave definitely resulted in more killsso in conclusionyes high refresh rate gaming makes adifference it's the kind of thing we'vealways felt but it was never somethingthat we've quantifiednow i think there's still a lot morework to do investigating this maybe parttwo could involve different mousesensitivity settings some professionalplayers i don't know hit us up in thecomments if you've got some ideas butfor now we feel like this is a prettygood place to leave it and 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