Whats your prefered fps cap?

[MeGa]

I recently upgraded to a 144hz (165hz oc) screen, so im kinda noob at this. In fps games I can really enjoy a higher fps cap like 90 or even 120, and notice the difference.

In rts....not so much. But also at lower fps, my screen which has overdrive settings to compensate ghosting, depending on fps, gives like a slightly sluggier image.

So here the cap is either 60 or 120 (can be force in nvcpanel but I usually prefer ingame caps). And I wonder, does people with high refresh screens play at higher refresh?

or is like, theres no difference between 60 or 120 here? I have eyes but also know sometimes its placebo effect, so im not sure, hence this thread.

The game is bbqing my gpu lil bit at 83-84º (not critical but also not ideal afaik) so Im interested in opinions about lower fps cap, as in if it seems to run and feel as smooth as 120, or its a night and day situation.

thx for reading if anybody does XD I'll give ya awards in compensation, sry xd

[Jaggid Edje]

I have more options than just 60 or 120. I played the game for over a week with it capped at 30 without even realizing it. I only noticed it because I had turned on fps display for the Nvidia overlay for a different game, and then played Stranded.

I changed it to 120 after that and did not really notice any difference (the fps was, obviously, higher, but in terms of game visuals and responsiveness, it was the same imo).

[MeGa]

I was trying 60 fps for the last hour, and temps were 8-10º lower, which was awesome. It felt smooth enough but maybee a little bit stuttery when panning the camera, where I was seeing an fps dip to 59.

Now Im trying another combo xD ingame cap of 120 fps, and nvcpanel cap of 72, which is half refresh, and per my latest experiences with other games, is a good balance of smoothness and gpu stress.

thx for answer!

[Jaggid Edje]

I don't have any stutter in the game. Thank god, because I find any kind of stuttering infuriating and generally just will stop playing a game where I can't resolve it. Especially 'micro-stutter'. Makes me want to vomit.

BTW, I agree with you about DLSS, which you mentioned in a different thread. Or more accurately, I wish the game supported DLAA.

[TargetLost]

Capping at 60 Hz in nvidia panel makes a large difference in noise and heat the GPU generates and lastly reduces the GPU power consumption drsatical.

So whenever you can live with 60Hz I recomment to do that cap for that specific game.
( I have it on for all games since my screen is limited to 60Hz 4k anyway and i don't play fps shooter)

[Cotaks]

Higher fps means smoother display/moving the camera around.

Higher in this case is always better, but....

1. how much power do you want to use?
2. how much noise does your card make?
3. is it really needed to have high fps?

Simply said a 60 fps cap is most balanced, lowers power usage, default go to fps on any monitor. and lowers the fan noise (if you have noise).

That said for FPS games those go out the window and i want as much as possible, i have a 165Hz monitor so the closer i can get to that number, the more responsive/smoother the game play will be.

[Bjørn]

I also keep this game locked at 60 fps, in 2k (2560x1440, rest of specs in profile).

Pretty new to refresh rates above 60 Hz myself, and I was surprised with the difference in 60 fps compared to 72, for example, especially in first or third person games.

But my graphics card is a bit overpowered for the rest of my system, so I keep it capped at as much as possible without the GPU running at 100%. I've noticed the last 10% or so of the usage is very inefficient, using maybe 100-150W on 85-90%, and 350W on 100%.

I was also advised to not run it unconstrained, since the CPU is so bottlenecked that there will be stutters and risk of crashes, in addition to excessive heat and noise. So I use Nvidia control panel to set fps for most games.

G-Synch also helps a lot for smoothing out the 'flow' in games, I feel. I think one of the purposes of it smoothing over microstutters and such. But the G-Synch was made available after I got the monitor (originally it only supported AMD FreeSynch, and I have Nvidia), so I haven't read up on it too much.

[Blue Monkey]

Always set your FPS cap to your screens refresh rate. The only exceptions are games that are latency sensitive, like COMPETITIVE shooters, racing games.
Doing so reduces heat (resulting usually in less noise as well), wear, power, etc. Win-Win.
If you are okay with even lower fps (resulting in even less heat, wear, power etc.), you can go lower than your screens refresh rate.

For Nvidia users, you can set this in the Nvidia Control Panel globally.