Yeah … up to a point, at least, FPS really does make a performance difference.

I used to think it didn’t. But then I came back to one of my favorite old games now on a rig that can play it at 4k 60fps … and the difference is tangible. I was finally able to 100% the game, beating the toughest levels on the highest, most absurd difficulty settings … and I didn’t even really find it that difficult. I’d been playing the same game for years and years on my other computer with lower resolution and lower FPS, and I never came close to being able to complete those toughest challenges. But a hardware upgrade let me actually complete it for the first time ever. And now I’m a believer, at least to a point.

I’m still pretty sure it’s a very ‘diminishing returns’ type situation when you get much above 60fps, though. At some point, increases in computer performance are going to translate less and less to increases in player performance.