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00100000_NUL
7 years ago
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1080-TI fps randomly capping to 60 in game

Hey guys, have a great custom build that hasn't given me any issues on literally every other game I've played. However in Apex my fps will randomly cap to 60 out of nowhere. I average 200+ FPS for...
  • 00100000_NUL's avatar
    00100000_NUL
    7 years ago

    Solved the problem myself for anyone else experiencing this. It has to do with the windows 10 refresh rate lock. While running obs or I assume any other recording/streaming software on a 2nd monitor windows 10 will try to lock the framerate to the refresh rate of the secondary monitor. In my case that was locking my fps in apex to 60 as my secondary monitor is a 60 hz monitor. The quick fix is to run obs on the monitor whose refresh rate you would like to use in game. I will update when I find a more feasible solution.

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00100000_NUL
7 years ago

From your response its obvious you didnt read my post at all, but thanks for taking the time to type I guess

00100000_NUL's avatar
00100000_NUL
7 years ago

Solved the problem myself for anyone else experiencing this. It has to do with the windows 10 refresh rate lock. While running obs or I assume any other recording/streaming software on a 2nd monitor windows 10 will try to lock the framerate to the refresh rate of the secondary monitor. In my case that was locking my fps in apex to 60 as my secondary monitor is a 60 hz monitor. The quick fix is to run obs on the monitor whose refresh rate you would like to use in game. I will update when I find a more feasible solution.

  • Jon_Heuuss's avatar
    Jon_Heuuss
    3 years ago

    Hi man,

    I have the same problem but the thing is that it happened even if my streamlabs is closed, is it normal ? It didn't do that before only since the horizon heirloom update, now i have a 60 fps cap in the menu but when i go in the firing range it fluctuating in the high fps range for a moment and then go back to my initial fps cap wich is a stable 235fps cap, i have the command in steam command line to cap fps. 

    • XHelperZ's avatar
      XHelperZ
      Hero+
      3 years ago

      Heya @Jon_Heuuss 

      The recent update has made it so the lobby FPS is capped to 60 FPS, this is done so players with lower-performance GPU's can cool down in-between matches to improve overall performance.

      This might of course cause some fluctuations when getting into matches, though it should settle on time.

      As far I'm aware, there isn't really a way to adjust this either, so it seems like the lobby fps is hardlocked to 60.

      • Jon_Heuuss's avatar
        Jon_Heuuss
        3 years ago

        Ooh okay i thought about that but i didn't find a setting to adjust it so i thought that it was a problem on my system. Thanks for the precision !

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