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blue-wreith's avatar
7 years ago

Is an FPS higher than your refresh rate harmful?

For your computer and such. If the only problem is screen tearing, which I am yet to experience, then I don't think I shall use V-sync. I've just heard people said that they have fried their graphics cards by having a higher FPS but Idk were their graphics cards not able to handle it, is that where the problem comes in? I'd like to know, I have an nvidia GTX geforce 750 ti or however you call it and my CPU is the i7-2600 at 3.40Ghz, I have 8 GB ram and a 1.81 TB hard drive with a monitor of a 60Hz refresh rate. I'd prefer a higher FPS since I want to use reshade with my game which can take a lot of FPS off depending on what shaders are used, however:

on loading screens only, I can get up to like 1500 fps according to steam which I'm thinking must be a LOOOOOT since I've seen people screaming over FPS in the 100's, let alone thousands. I didn't misread it. In game it's about 120 tops with some of the highest graphics settings on but it usually stays somewhere below that. So please recommend what I can do to run reshade but not have too low nor high an FPS. I still want to use some of the more taxing shaders of reshade, but I want a balance between as less lag and as pretty-looking as I can get the game.Thanks!

P.s sorry another discussion here but I have not played sims 3 all that much so I'm preparing everything so it's better for me to play in future.