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Iridiyum
7 years ago
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Frame Rate Cap?

Does anyone know if there's a way to cap frames in Apex? I believe my GPU is getting maxed out due to no cap being set. Because of this, my stream is not staying at a constant 60fps, it's fluctuating all over the place from numbers like 20.37 to 50.34. I stream taxing games like Escape from Tarkov, etc and my stream is stable when I play those because I cap my frames at 144. So does anyone know of a possible way to cap the game, whether it be in a config file or something else? I would really appreciate it!
  • Iridiyum's avatar
    Iridiyum
    7 years ago

    I finally fixed my problem. After trying many many different trial's and errors, and JUST when I was about to give up and reinstall windows, I thought to myself, "maybe my Media Sources on my OBS scene are messing with my FPS?" I have 4 Media Sources on my scene for dynamic overlays/event lists etc, and as soon as I disabled them, boom, my stream ran flawlessly at 59.94 fps, even whilst dropping into a game and playing it out, it stayed locked at 59.94. 

    So if anyone reading this is having a similar issue, double check that you dont have any Media Sources or Window/Display Captures enabled on your OBS Scene. 

    Good luck to you all! I almost ripped my freaking face off trying to figure this out. 

    - Iridium

21 Replies

  • ProNoobZoom's avatar
    ProNoobZoom
    7 years ago

    I have heard that the fps is currently capped at 144fps. They should fix that soon.

  • Iridiyum's avatar
    Iridiyum
    7 years ago

    Im not 100% sure if it is or not. Because I sometimes hit 160fps in game, and when im loading up the game and going through the EA + Respawn loading screens the fps counter is well into the 2000s. I feel like because of this my gpu is getting overloaded trying to absolutely max out my frames which is causing my issue on stream. When I turn on V-Sync in nvidia control panel my stream is fine because the frames are locked in game. Hopefully they add a limiter in game soon

  • Gehsture's avatar
    Gehsture
    7 years ago

    I've been having this same problem on my stream all night. I really hope they release an FPS cap so I can stream the game smoothly

  • Gehsture's avatar
    Gehsture
    7 years ago

    My monitor is 144hz tho, so my pc is trying to pump out 144hz and it is causing my stream to only output around 30fps. If there wasn't a way to call my fps at 60, then that would save processing power for my stream

  • go2hel's avatar
    go2hel
    7 years ago
    Add “+ fps_max [number u want to limit to]” without brackets or quotes to the launch options.
  • Chrillan's avatar
    Chrillan
    7 years ago

    Is it possible to cap the menu fps as well? Would +fps_max_menu 60 work? (is there a space between + and fps?)

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