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Anonymous
8 years ago
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I'm Stuck at 60 FPS on a 144 Hz Monitor

Greetings,

Since a couple of days ago, I've been locked to 60 FPS, in Battlefield 1.

I have a 144 Hz monitor, and I have been playing Battlefield 1 at 120 FPS with VSYNC for weeks.  Starting a couple of days ago, I've been locked at 60 FPS.

I can't figure out what's wrong.  I've checked all my settings.  I've even tried re-installing Windows from scratch.  The strange thing is that I didn't make any changes before this started happening.

Any ideas?

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  • Mike_Wazowski_l's avatar
    Mike_Wazowski_l
    6 years ago

    I maybe  have made the wrong assumption while tinkering further I found out that it might be somewhere else this problem originates from.

    My apologies for giving a too early conclusion  instead of looking no further than the work around I found in game.

    I think that the issue might be with Windows 10. Maybe a resent update has changed the "Display adaptor properties for Display 1"

    This is found in  Settings ->  Display  -> Advanced Display settings Display adaptor properties  for Display 1, in  the Tab Monitor the screen refresh rate was set to 60 Hertz on my system instead of 165 Hz.. 

    I  think  BFV took this value on  start up yet if changed in the game options to 200 Hz it would run at a setting beyond  60 Hz.

    Also I noticed  that in Settings -> Display -> Graphic settings in windows 10 there is an option to turn on (or off) Variable refresh rate, this was set off by default

    As far a I know the variable refresh rate (g-sync) was handled by the NVIDIA drivers why windows is starting to interfere with this now is a mystery to me, but might be the answer why a g-sync panel will go over the max  refresh rate of the panel, as when I  set it to 200 Hz in game it went to 200 when it could (loading screens mainly)  I just checked in game and turned the settings up to 200 Hz and I got 165 hz max as highest value as it should do if g-sync is enabled.

    But now I still wonder at this moment if g-sync is really implemented and what is handled by windows and what is handled by the graphic drivers. And why is this so poorly communicated by Microsoft. 

    So those who are having this issue this might not be the the final solution but a work around as this might be windows 10 conflicting with graphic drivers.  Why Microsoft is doing this baffles me a bit , as they didn't make the  way to control this any easier.  I always have controlled the GPU and display settings through the NVIDIA control panel and g-force experience  or custom in game setting.  The windows 10 settings seems to totally neglect any other values set either in the graphic card control settings and the initial game settings unless these are manually changed and these chances will be temperately until the application is closed.

    So check if the settings that are in windows are matching your panel and it the Variable refresh rate is turned on in windows settings  and everything should at least give the FPS as intended.

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Hi there,

    Thank you for your suggestion.  It's set to 144 Hz in the control panel.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Just a quick update.  I've found that if I disable my second monitor (a 60 Hz, HDMI monitor), I'm back at 120 FPS.

    This is completely bizarre.  I've been using my computer at 144 Hz for at least a year now.  Why this new problem?

  • IIDaZzuII's avatar
    IIDaZzuII
    Seasoned Ace
    8 years ago

    Hi @BloodOchre!

    I experienced a similar issue where battlefield was locked at 29hz with a 60hz monitor. I had to reinstall windows to fix that.

    A temporary fix should be setting the "borderless" video mode instead of fullscreen. 

    Let me know if this is the case.

    Regards

  • EA_Atic's avatar
    EA_Atic
    Icon for DICE Team rankDICE Team
    8 years ago

    Hey @BloodOchre its a worth a try, But try to reinstall your GPU driver completely to see if that make any changes. 

    /Atic 

  • Mike_Wazowski_l's avatar
    Mike_Wazowski_l
    6 years ago

    This is not a GPU driver issue, it's an  Battlefield in game options issue.

    If I set my max frame rate in advanced (video) settings to monitor refresh rate (which is 165  Hz) it is stuck to 60 fps, unless I change it to 144 Hz or 200 Hz exit menu go back to menu set it to monitor refresh rate presto it will go to 165.  Or set it to 200 Hz and it will go up to 200 fps which  is odd on  a g-sync panel.

    But that is beside the point as high frames I can take but I noticed the  frames dropped to 60 fps because I was starting to get queasy.

    But until this not has been debugged go to Advanced in  video settings and set max frame rate to 200 I guess

  • EA_Atic's avatar
    EA_Atic
    Icon for DICE Team rankDICE Team
    6 years ago

    Tried what you wrote above and I'm not getting that issue - I'm using 144 HZ g sync monitor ( I don't have 165hz at home) - when I moved it to 144 my fps went to 144 and moved it to 165 my fps went to 165. and if I set it to monitor refresh rate rate setting I got 144. @Mike_Wazowski_ll 

    /Atic 

  • Mike_Wazowski_l's avatar
    Mike_Wazowski_l
    6 years ago

    I maybe  have made the wrong assumption while tinkering further I found out that it might be somewhere else this problem originates from.

    My apologies for giving a too early conclusion  instead of looking no further than the work around I found in game.

    I think that the issue might be with Windows 10. Maybe a resent update has changed the "Display adaptor properties for Display 1"

    This is found in  Settings ->  Display  -> Advanced Display settings Display adaptor properties  for Display 1, in  the Tab Monitor the screen refresh rate was set to 60 Hertz on my system instead of 165 Hz.. 

    I  think  BFV took this value on  start up yet if changed in the game options to 200 Hz it would run at a setting beyond  60 Hz.

    Also I noticed  that in Settings -> Display -> Graphic settings in windows 10 there is an option to turn on (or off) Variable refresh rate, this was set off by default

    As far a I know the variable refresh rate (g-sync) was handled by the NVIDIA drivers why windows is starting to interfere with this now is a mystery to me, but might be the answer why a g-sync panel will go over the max  refresh rate of the panel, as when I  set it to 200 Hz in game it went to 200 when it could (loading screens mainly)  I just checked in game and turned the settings up to 200 Hz and I got 165 hz max as highest value as it should do if g-sync is enabled.

    But now I still wonder at this moment if g-sync is really implemented and what is handled by windows and what is handled by the graphic drivers. And why is this so poorly communicated by Microsoft. 

    So those who are having this issue this might not be the the final solution but a work around as this might be windows 10 conflicting with graphic drivers.  Why Microsoft is doing this baffles me a bit , as they didn't make the  way to control this any easier.  I always have controlled the GPU and display settings through the NVIDIA control panel and g-force experience  or custom in game setting.  The windows 10 settings seems to totally neglect any other values set either in the graphic card control settings and the initial game settings unless these are manually changed and these chances will be temperately until the application is closed.

    So check if the settings that are in windows are matching your panel and it the Variable refresh rate is turned on in windows settings  and everything should at least give the FPS as intended.

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