120 FPS 1920x1080 dream......is it possible?

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I'm just curious if anyone has tried creating a dream with a piece of 120 frame per second high def video and keep the quality rather than try to optimize it for system performance? I'm not worried about system usage,size or anything like that, I just want a true 120 FPS full quality dream to let the 120HZ monitor shine with deskscapes but I'm having trouble finding any 120 FPS video, short of shooting something myself on a  120 FPS camera.

Just curious is perhaps anyone has tried this since I've never seen one available on the dream page, is there a reason nobodies made a 120FPS dream?

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

It would use way too much CPU. I've created one at 60fps and it was a CPU hog, even at a low bitrate.

Besides, are you sure you're running at 120hz?

I have matching 120hz monitors and the max I've been able to run is 60hz, although I haven't put much effort into trying to get them to run higher.

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

sorry for the super late reply, been a busy summer.

 

Yes, I'm using a Benq XL2410T, it's a true 120 hz monitor, I can select 120 hz right in my control panel.  I mean if i can pump out over 120 FPS on a modern 3D gaming engine shouldn't i be-able to run a simple 2D video clip at 120 fps? Are you saying  deskscapes is truly THAT bad with it's usage optimization?

 

could someone point me in the right direction for finding some 120 fps video clips? or for that matter has anyone even made a dream at 60fps?

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

If you ask me that's insane... you won't find anything like that and if you did, it would be a huge cpu hog.  Deskscapes is the first program of it's kind with somewhat low "usage optimization."  Deskscapes is far better than anyother program made to do the same thing.

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

You have to remember that most hardware acceleration for videos will be based on an assumption that the max frame rate is 60 fps with the most common case being 24 fps for 1080p video.

I suspect a video with such a high frame rate would be blocked from hardware acceleration due to the graphics hardware not being fast enough to do 120 fps decoding and so the cpu would have to do most of the work (at twice the cpu usage of 60 fps video)

In theory a video would work in DeskScapes as it has no internal restrictions that I am aware of but as I say above I imagine performance would be noticably worse than a 60 fps video.  Additionally updating the desktop 120 times a second would mean any windows overlapping the video would also have to be redrawn 120 times a second by the OS desktop window manager.  With lots of blur this would also use considerable amounts of GPU time.

The purpose of DeskScapes is to run low impact videos and other animated content on the desktop.  120 FPS does not exactly say low impact to me.