FPS cap

[Wingfan]

Why do some PC games have a cap on max FPS ?


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[Fate]

So you can have a more cinematic experience duh.

[vlkn´]

but dat cinematic tho.

[cesrai]

Why not ? capping your FPS at the monitor refresh rate is enough, save power, lower heat, lower noise, no coil whine.

[Lewellyn]

Sometimes the physics engine is tied to the frame rate because of poor coding and foresight. Sometimes they just don't give a shit about PC ports.

[Wingfan]

could care less about power, heat is not a problem, cant hear noise with headphones on. Would be nice to be able to unlock that

[Enderman]

They do it because the developers are too lazy to implement proper clock timing for different parts of the game.

This means that without proper coding, having a game run at 120fps instead of 60fps would cause issues, such as things running too quickly, and other bugs which would ruin the game.

[cesrai]

could care less about power, heat is not a problem, cant hear noise with headphones on. Would be nice to be able to unlock that

Why would it be nice ? not everyone uses headphones.

[Wingfan]

Why would it be nice ? not everyone uses headphones.

then they could leave it as is, would be nice to that choice. We spend alot of $$$ on our systems and should be able to push ALL our games 

[SeanBond]

could care less about power, heat is not a problem, cant hear noise with headphones on. Would be nice to be able to unlock that

true as that may be no game should be locked down on pc just because they didn't feel like making it right or whatever their excuse may, I personally think it's insanely stupid not to play with vsync on but sometimes it's nice to see how a game runs, other times it's nice to have a good benchmark. And then their are people with 144hz monitors. Should the get shafted because the dev does not feel like having 144hz or god forbid not even 60hz?

[Godlygamer23]

Why not ? capping your FPS at the monitor refresh rate is enough, save power, lower heat, lower noise, no coil whine.

Games sometimes get capped at 60FPS. If your refresh rate is 144Hz, that's a bit of an issue.

[vlkn´]

I play with vsync on all the time, but it looks/plays like sh** if it cycles between 60 or 59,5fps

Same for 30fps, 29,5fps 

[cesrai]

then they could leave it as is, would be nice to that choice. We spend alot of $$$ on our systems and should be able to push ALL our games 

In a lot of games you have a choice like Trine, what do you mean by push ?

[cesrai]

Games sometimes get capped at 60FPS. If your refresh rate is 144Hz, that's a bit of an issue.

Ohhh... I understood this wrong I thought that he asked why gamers sometimes cap their FPS.

[-TesseracT-]

I play with vsync on all the time, but it looks/plays like sh** if it cycles between 60 or 59,5fps

Same for 30fps, 29,5fps

I personally cannot stand playing with vsync.

[Admiral Naismith]

Games sometimes get capped at 60FPS. If your refresh rate is 144Hz, that's a bit of an issue.

144hz monitor user here, can confirm its a b*tch.

[s3ns3]

nfs with their 30fps cap...stupid ports

[Diceair]

And AW with 91fps cap. I'm like WTF why 91FPS and not 60 or 144FPS

[typographie]

Why not ? capping your FPS at the monitor refresh rate is enough, save power, lower heat, lower noise, no coil whine.

 

Those are all fantastic reasons to use a framerate cap when necessary, and for developers to offer a variety of capping options in their games. They aren't great reasons to have a hard-coded cap.

[cesrai]

Those are all fantastic reasons to use a framerate cap when necessary, and for developers to offer a variety of capping options in their games. They aren't great reasons to have a hard-coded cap.

Nope you got me wrong I was talking about a different scenario.

[Wingfan]

Nope you got me wrong I was talking about a different scenario.

They dont know you read it wrong.....cuz they are just skimming through lol