Graphics Card Related Question

1) Hit Windows key-X, open the Device Manager, expand the Display Adapters section, and you'll see your graphics card(s).

2) Right-click on your desktop, select Display Settings, then Advanced Display Settings, and you'll see the refresh rate of your monitor listed along with a few other stats.

If you let us know these details, as well as whether you ever play in windowed mode, we can help you limit fps, that is if it's necessary. Many lower-end graphics cards and chips don't need an fps limiter, although it doesn't usually hurt to use one.

That's not a dedicated graphics card, it's integrated. A very nice integrated chip, as they tend to be these days, but still several orders of magnitude lower than the power a dedicated card can deliver. Integrated graphics pull from RAM and processor power to do their job instead of handling it themselves like dedicated Nvidia and (most) AMD cards do.

It's not likely that integrated graphics are going to kick up fps rates that are high enough to be harmful, but it's possible. To see the fps rates you are actually getting in-game, Ctrl+Shift+C to bring up the cheats console and type fps on (enter). As you play and move the game camera around, the displayed fps rate needs to stay below or close to 60, since that is the refresh rate of your monitor. To make the display go away later, cheats console again and type fps off (enter). If you're getting values way above 60 and wildly fluctuating all over the place, then actions need to be taken to cap them.

Yikes, yes that's way too high for a 60 Hz monitor/screen. I don't know that running that high would necessarily burn any hardware out, but it's potentially horrible for game performance. It's also pretty surprising. Are you certain that you don't also have an Nvidia or AMD dedicated graphics card? Many systems (usually laptops though) have dual graphics.

What does it say for the graphics card being used within the document called DeviceConfig.log, a log that would be in your TS3 user game folder in Documents? That would be the section before the long lists of game options where we usually see Found and Matched to tell us if the card is being formally recognized or not (which doesn't matter for fps purposes, this is just to confirm which card the game thinks it's using).

If it's really Intel and nothing else, then on the control panel for your Intel graphics chip, see if you can change vertical sync to always On. Note that, if this helps, vertical sync is only effective in full screen mode.

If that doesn't do the trick, or if windowed mode is required, then you would have to add a third party utility such as RivaTuner Stats Server (RTSS) to lock in the fps to an explicit value of 60. Which is actually what I've been using for years, except for a different reason.

@puzzlezaddict
The graphics card is a Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630
Refresh rate: 60 Hz
And I play in windowed mode but can try fullscreen if it's better.

Thanks @igazor I'll check it when I'm playing tomorrow and see if it does go above 60.

@igazor FPS is showing up in the 200-230 even on paused game.