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Is there a way to limit fps apart from vsync?
Posted: 10 Mar 2010, 17:17
by Machete234
My gfx card gets a little hot while gaming so in other games you can use a maxfps command by that you say "render only 125 frames" and the card has less work to do.
So in the case of spring I would limit it to 60, right now I use vsync t o do that but vsync sucks when you get less than 60 frames.
And its more than just limiting the framerate.
Is there a maxfps command in spring?
Re: Is there a way to limit fps apart from vsync?
Posted: 10 Mar 2010, 17:25
by jK
you can configure vsync ingame via:
e.g. "/vsync 10" will just sync each 10th frame, this makes it much more practical for low FPS.
Re: Is there a way to limit fps apart from vsync?
Posted: 10 Mar 2010, 17:50
by Machete234
Thx Ill try this
vsync 1 gives me 61 fps
vsync 2 will give me about 80-90 fps
anything above is basically without a limit same as vsync 0
Re: Is there a way to limit fps apart from vsync?
Posted: 10 Mar 2010, 23:36
by zerver
If you have a CRT monitor it may be possible to reduce the refresh rate to e.g. 30Hz. This in combination with vsync means lower fps. Not sure if LCD monitors can be tweaked like this.
Re: Is there a way to limit fps apart from vsync?
Posted: 11 Mar 2010, 06:20
by Forboding Angel
Machete234 wrote:Thx Ill try this
vsync 1 gives me 61 fps
vsync 2 will give me about 80-90 fps
anything above is basically without a limit same as vsync 0
Just spend 5 - 10 bucks and get a decent fan for the gpu. Shit'll buff out.
Re: Is there a way to limit fps apart from vsync?
Posted: 11 Mar 2010, 20:29
by Satirik
Machete234 wrote:Thx Ill try this
vsync 1 gives me 61 fps
vsync 2 will give me about 80-90 fps
anything above is basically without a limit same as vsync 0
here /vsync x gives me 60/x fps ...
Re: Is there a way to limit fps apart from vsync?
Posted: 12 Mar 2010, 13:34
by Machete234
So youre limited at 30 fps whe you use /vsync 2 ?
Maybe it doesnt work in my case so that anything other than vsync 1 will disable it.
In my case it seems more that vsync 2 will allow 120 fps.
vsync 3 180 etc, 60*x.
Re: Is there a way to limit fps apart from vsync?
Posted: 12 Mar 2010, 15:51
by Auswaschbar
Forboding Angel wrote:Machete234 wrote:Thx Ill try this
vsync 1 gives me 61 fps
vsync 2 will give me about 80-90 fps
anything above is basically without a limit same as vsync 0
Just spend 5 - 10 bucks and get a decent fan for the gpu. Shit'll buff out.
On topic: in linux, "/vsync x" limits to x frames per second. On windows, code is different so I dunno.
Re: Is there a way to limit fps apart from vsync?
Posted: 12 Mar 2010, 17:53
by hoijui
zerver wrote:If you have a CRT monitor it may be possible to reduce the refresh rate to e.g. 30Hz. This in combination with vsync means lower fps. Not sure if LCD monitors can be tweaked like this.
:D :D :D
nice one!
windows always uses 60Hz by default, it so hurts, but i am sure that all non tech guys in offices with CRTs are using it.. i feel sick after a few minutes.