change refresh rate to 60hz

[Trevino]

I have a 144hz monitor and the game uses my highest option leaving a choppy feel how can I force the refresh rate?

[Stapadoo]

NVIDIA Control Panel > Program Settings > Dying Light > Max Frame Rate

[Dopey Shepard]

why would you have a choppy feel with a high refresh rate monitor? You are supposed to use freesync/gsync on those. You should have much better experience than capping it to 60. I have a 60hz monitor and I overclocked it to 75 and have a much better feeling and I dont even have freesync or vrr

[Stapadoo]

Originally posted by Dopey Shepard:

why would you have a choppy feel with a high refresh rate monitor? You are supposed to use freesync/gsync on those. You should have much better experience than capping it to 60. I have a 60hz monitor and I overclocked it to 75 and have a much better feeling and I dont even have freesync or vrr

maybe the mouse polling rate could be the reason to why it feels choppy

[Kaom]

Originally posted by Stapadoo:

NVIDIA Control Panel > Program Settings > Dying Light > Max Frame Rate

I wouldn't recommend doing this because personally it makes the game's fps stability worse.

Yes it limits my fps, but it isn't as smooth as what v-sync gives me.

[Dopey Shepard]

Originally posted by Antho31:

Originally posted by Stapadoo:

NVIDIA Control Panel > Program Settings > Dying Light > Max Frame Rate

I wouldn't recommend doing this because personally it makes the game's fps stability worse.

Yes it limits my fps, but it isn't as smooth as what v-sync gives me.

the OP in question has a 144 hz monitor, it's more likely he has some kind of VRR built into it which they should enable first and disable vsync

[Syrrah]

Originally posted by Dopey Shepard:

why would you have a choppy feel with a high refresh rate monitor? You are supposed to use freesync/gsync on those. You should have much better experience than capping it to 60. I have a 60hz monitor and I overclocked it to 75 and have a much better feeling and I dont even have freesync or vrr

The choppy feel aka "my refrersh rate is too low" feeling comes not actually from a too low refresh rate but rather from changes in framerate.

If your card can pull the necessary frames for 144 Hz 99% of the time, but once in a while drops down to only - say - 80 frames for a second or so, then you will experience the game as feeling more choppy that if you had been rendering at 60 Hz for 100% of the time. The human brain is very good at picking up small anomalies, even the fraction of a second where the game lags and frames are doubled. Our brain is used to a "constant framerate", because there are no lagdrops in real life.

That's even the case with vsync, gsync or freesync enabled, because even with those options you still risk a change in framerates.

Hence the request the reduce the max. framerate to something that your card is guaranteed to deliver in every single circumstance, no matter what happens. The game may not look af fluent at 60 Hz as it would at 120 or 144 Hz, but the brain will register it at more fluent.

[Dopey Shepard]

Originally posted by รሃዪዪคɦ:

Originally posted by Dopey Shepard:

why would you have a choppy feel with a high refresh rate monitor? You are supposed to use freesync/gsync on those. You should have much better experience than capping it to 60. I have a 60hz monitor and I overclocked it to 75 and have a much better feeling and I dont even have freesync or vrr

The choppy feel aka "my refrersh rate is too low" feeling comes not actually from a too low refresh rate but rather from changes in framerate.

If your card can pull the necessary frames for 144 Hz 99% of the time, but once in a while drops down to only - say - 80 frames for a second or so, then you will experience the game as feeling more choppy that if you had been rendering at 60 Hz for 100% of the time. The human brain is very good at picking up small anomalies, even the fraction of a second where the game lags and frames are doubled. Our brain is used to a "constant framerate", because there are no lagdrops in real life.

That's even the case with vsync, gsync or freesync enabled, because even with those options you still risk a change in framerates.

Hence the request the reduce the max. framerate to something that your card is guaranteed to deliver in every single circumstance, no matter what happens. The game may not look af fluent at 60 Hz as it would at 120 or 144 Hz, but the brain will register it at more fluent.

i understand what you are saying but there are 2 things to consider here - dying light is very well optimized in terms of max fps. My RX 580 can do 100 fps average here on non max settings. I can only imagine what magic you could pull off with more powerful GPUs. Getting 1440p 144hz might be totally possible

The other thing is - if you have high refresh rate monitor, why would you ever go back to 60?

I oc'ed my own 60hz monitor to 75 and difference is night and day. I don't feel like going back to 60, especially in a first person game. If I had 144hz monitor with better gpu I would only be using that, occasional drops below 100 are very forgivable especially in lush forest/grass environment where your fps drops like crazy here in this game. At least you are gonna get back to your 144 back again very soon

Besides, VRR makes sure that your monitor is synced to whatever frame you are pulling off. I can imagine you won't really feel that much difference going from 144 down to 100 for a second

[Trevino]

I appreciate the help guys by I'm honestly just looking to see how to manually change refresh rate But so far it doesn't seem like that's possible unless someone knows how to do it in the config file or something

[Dopey Shepard]

Originally posted by Tank from left 4 dead:

I appreciate the help guys by I'm honestly just looking to see how to manually change refresh rate But so far it doesn't seem like that's possible unless someone knows how to do it in the config file or something

you can use various tools like msi afterburner to help you limit the framerate if you want. Adjust your refresh rate in your amd/nvidia custom resolution settings or in windows

[Trevino]

Originally posted by Dopey Shepard:

Originally posted by Tank from left 4 dead:

I appreciate the help guys by I'm honestly just looking to see how to manually change refresh rate But so far it doesn't seem like that's possible unless someone knows how to do it in the config file or something

you can use various tools like msi afterburner to help you limit the framerate if you want. Adjust your refresh rate in your amd/nvidia custom resolution settings or in windows

I use MSI afterburner to change my frame rate but when I select a lower refresh rate the game uses my maximum no matter what

[Dopey Shepard]

Originally posted by Tank from left 4 dead:

Originally posted by Dopey Shepard:

you can use various tools like msi afterburner to help you limit the framerate if you want. Adjust your refresh rate in your amd/nvidia custom resolution settings or in windows

I use MSI afterburner to change my frame rate but when I select a lower refresh rate the game uses my maximum no matter what

wtf? That's not supposed to be like that. So weird. I hope you find the solution)

[Trevino]

Originally posted by Dopey Shepard:

Originally posted by Tank from left 4 dead:

I use MSI afterburner to change my frame rate but when I select a lower refresh rate the game uses my maximum no matter what

wtf? That's not supposed to be like that. So weird. I hope you find the solution)

I don't think I will but thanks for trying

[Kaom]

The only solution I found that might be good is to set v-sync to adaptative half refresh rate in the nvidia 3D control panel.

It's 72 fps though, not 60.

[Dopey Shepard]

Originally posted by Antho31:

The only solution I found that might be good is to set v-sync to adaptative half refresh rate in the nvidia 3D control panel.

It's 72 fps though, not 60.

is it possible to do that if I have amd GPU and don't have vrr monitor?

[Kaom]

Originally posted by Dopey Shepard:

Originally posted by Antho31:

The only solution I found that might be good is to set v-sync to adaptative half refresh rate in the nvidia 3D control panel.

It's 72 fps though, not 60.

is it possible to do that if I have amd GPU and don't have vrr monitor?

I don't know sorry.