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Microsoft doesn't understand FPS

2026-05-09 Science & Technology
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ssh terminal.shop Yes, seriously, this is my company, and we selected and found some of the worlds best coffee. US only (for now (the world is hard when you dont do crappy influencer coffee)) Full Ep on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2aWwsR6wUnxFZx0Y8YadPK Full Ep on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvZmBF9YL5o Chapters 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:59 - Windows Run Dialog 00:04:23 - Terminal Ad 00:05:31 - FPS or ms 00:10:49 - Latency 00:16:39 - Casey Haters 00:18:37 - FPS in the Web World 00:32:35 - Red vs Blue 00:33:21 - Microsoft Problems 00:37:39 - The median 00:40:16 - Windows Start Menu 00:47:20 - Minecraft Machine 00:48:19 - Windows is OVER 00:54:14 - Windows 1 00:54:45 - Outro https://twitch.tv/ThePrimeagen - I Stream on Twitch https://twitter.com/terminaldotshop - Want to order coffee over SSH? ssh terminal.shop Become Backend Dev: https://boot.dev/prime (plus i make courses for them) This is also the best way to support me is to support yourself becoming a better backend engineer. Great News? Want me to research and create video????: https://www.reddit.com/r/ThePrimeagen Kinesis Advantage 360: https://bit.ly/Prime-Kinesis

Top Comments (10)

@mobjThinker 2026-05-09

"...a couple years later when I was working on the Doom 3 BFG edition release, the exactly predicted off-by-one-frame-of-latency input sampling happened, and very nearly shipped. That was a cold-sweat moment for me: after all of my harping about latency and responsiveness, I almost shipped a title with a completely unnecessary frame of latency." -John Carmack

325 11 replies
@PaperclipAssitant 2026-05-09

I just want the right click menu in explorer to take less then 9000ms.

282 23 replies
@UnOrigionalOne 2026-05-09

The thing that enrages me is that Windows 11 will happily consume 24GB of ram on my computer but is still unresponsive to a comical degree.

276 36 replies
@qerupasy 2026-05-09

I'm sure DLSS 6 will be able to hallucinate the run dialog a few frames ahead of it actually being there.

182 5 replies
@nekrosis4431 2026-05-09

Me and my 240hz Monitors appreciate every dev who thinks like casey.

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@ElvisStansvik 2026-05-09

Casey's PTSD--fueled Windows breakup speech was so epic and heartfelt.

54 1 replies
@ДіонісійНужний 2026-05-09

The pain about windows start menu showing internet results is so real

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@theluga 2026-05-09

To microslop fps means fails per second.

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@solarized9916 2026-05-09

I will call that 6 frames. 6 frames!!!!! Chun Li's medium punch only need 5 frames to startup .

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@ThePrimeTimeagen 2026-05-08

coffee btw ssh terminal.shop

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