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@Purrdalecki - May I add my §.02 here and have the incredibly annoying (just kidding :p ) but helpful others on this thread convinced you to use vsync and cap those frame rates to 60 fps yet?
This should not be considered optional or conditional based on whether your card can "handle it" nor what kind of temps and percentage usage you are getting, although it is worth it to check on those for other reasons. Frame rates running higher than the refresh rate of your monitor is a bad condition, it should never be intended or allowed to happen, period.
The only way to get any kind of benefit with or without reshaders from running at 120 fps is to have a 120 Hz (or higher) refresh rate monitor. As yours is 60 Hz, like most but not all of them are, there is just no point in making or allowing the card to work that hard. At higher rates than that, sorry but besides potentially causing the game to glitch, lag, and crash all the time, you may as well make plans to buy a new computer because that card will burn itself out and potentially burn out the system board along with it.
These overly high, unsynchronized frame rates are not a feature of the game nor one that can be overcome by having better or higher end hardware. They are a direct result of TS3 not having a built in fps limiter like more modern games have, as such would not have been required by nearly as many players in 2007-09 back when the base game engine was designed and generally speaking hardware would not have been capable of working that hard even if it "wanted" to.
This should not be considered optional or conditional based on whether your card can "handle it" nor what kind of temps and percentage usage you are getting, although it is worth it to check on those for other reasons. Frame rates running higher than the refresh rate of your monitor is a bad condition, it should never be intended or allowed to happen, period.
The only way to get any kind of benefit with or without reshaders from running at 120 fps is to have a 120 Hz (or higher) refresh rate monitor. As yours is 60 Hz, like most but not all of them are, there is just no point in making or allowing the card to work that hard. At higher rates than that, sorry but besides potentially causing the game to glitch, lag, and crash all the time, you may as well make plans to buy a new computer because that card will burn itself out and potentially burn out the system board along with it.
These overly high, unsynchronized frame rates are not a feature of the game nor one that can be overcome by having better or higher end hardware. They are a direct result of TS3 not having a built in fps limiter like more modern games have, as such would not have been required by nearly as many players in 2007-09 back when the base game engine was designed and generally speaking hardware would not have been capable of working that hard even if it "wanted" to.
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