FPS Locked at 60 FPS (Probably Solved?)

[Swedra]

Ive a laptop with a 1070 card and the internal monitor is at 120hz, earlier today when I was playing everything was silky smooth and ran at 120 FPS, (V-Sync was on Adaptive, On did not change it, off was uncapped), but later today when I started playing again the frame-rate stays locked at 60 FPS no matter what I do (unless I turn off V-Sync, but then it runs higher than it needs to), is G-Sync compatible btw.

What to do? I've seen that others had similar problems, but I couldnt really find anything much of note. Anyone willing to lend a hand?

EDIT/ADD: Also, Ive never really understood this thing with G-Sync, how do I know if it is in effect, does any regular V-Sync settings turn it off?

EDIT/ADD2: When I put V-Sync on Adaptive it goes up to 120 FPS again for like half a second, then back down to 60.

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Im back at 120 FPS now, the only two things I did was:
1. Disable G-Sync for DOOMx64vk.exe in the NVidia Control Panel, and
2. Change the Refresh Rate setting for the Desktop down to 60hz and Apply, then back to 120hz and Apply.

Here's to hoping I dont have a reason to write more in this post!

EDIT: Seems to work so far, the only difference I can notice so far is some very minor "hitches" at times (noticable when panning the view slowly, easy to do with a controller), that I dont think were there before, which would kind of make sense in a way, but yea, seems to work for now.

EDIT2: Huh, I am confused now. Tried enabling G-Sync again and it also worked even after closing down the game and starting it up again. Could the switching down to 60hz and then back to 120hz really have been it? Thats a pretty major bug somewhere in that case. I did update my graphics drivers a few days ago (for Doom Eternal) though, maybe something bugged there, the only other thing I could think of would be the fact that I made liberal use of Alt+Enter to go to Windowed mode so I could check some things on the net, chat with friends etc (since Alt+Tab has a well-known habit of making the game freeze).

Ill leave G-Sync on for now and play a bit more, then I guess Ill see if things are still allright tomorrow or if it has screwed up by then again, and to test out the Going-to-windows-mode-and-then-back-many-times theory (though it having been the cause would seemingly only make sense if the desktop ran at 60hz while the game ran at 120hz, then I could understand if frequent Alt+Enter might just bug the engine, but oh well, hopefully it works now though :3)

Sorry for the wall-of-text and ramblings, just wanted to detail what I was doing in case it actually solves things and someone else has the same issue and also havent been helped much by the other threads so far.

[!Cara]

Just food for thought:
I know it's not the same game but it's a similar problem I noticed that when I play rainbow six siege with vulkan API everytime I start a new round my fps drop to 60-80 while I normally get stable 120 (both at a mix of medium and high settings)
The only thing fixing it is alt+tabbing out and back in at the start of every round
On top of that I didn't have the problem when vulkan API was first introduced to r6

Doom runs fine for me in vulkan tho

Playing with a gtx 1060 6gb oc (factory oc and some tweaking by myself) an i5 7600k clocked at 5ghz and 16gb of ram

[Swedra]

Originally posted by Otto Octavius:

Just food for thought:
I know it's not the same game but it's a similar problem I noticed that when I play rainbow six siege with vulkan API everytime I start a new round my fps drop to 60-80 while I normally get stable 120 (both at a mix of medium and high settings)
The only thing fixing it is alt+tabbing out and back in at the start of every round
On top of that I didn't have the problem when vulkan API was first introduced to r6

Doom runs fine for me in vulkan tho

Playing with a gtx 1060 6gb oc (factory oc and some tweaking by myself) an i5 7600k clocked at 5ghz and 16gb of ram

That is quite interesting to hear, heh, sounds almost like what happens for a lot of people (mostly at the start of rounds) in CoD:MW'19.

I think my problems with Doom have actually been fixed by the #2 listed by me (perhaps installing a vastly new driver somehow screwed things, I dont know, although I haven't been Alt-Tabbing nearly as much as I did when the problems arose, and also haven't tried out SnapMap since then either.

I've a GTX 1070 with 8gb dedicated VRAM +8gb shared.

DDR4 16gb RAM. (2*8gb)

i7-8750H @ 2.2 GHz (12 CPU's) Though it has like some Turbo functions and whatnot, so it overclocks or something (says it is running at ca 4000MHz right now)

[fenderjaguar]

If you are running the monitor through a displayport cable, I would do the refresh rate fix with CRU, so that you don't ever have to worry about your monitor running at 60hz:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQIU_atN09o

[!Cara]

Originally posted by fenderjaguar:

If you are running the monitor through a displayport cable, I would do the refresh rate fix with CRU, so that you don't ever have to worry about your monitor running at 60hz:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQIU_atN09o

are you positive that an amd fix works on nvidia cards?

Originally posted by Swedra:

Originally posted by Otto Octavius:

Just food for thought:
I know it's not the same game but it's a similar problem I noticed that when I play rainbow six siege with vulkan API everytime I start a new round my fps drop to 60-80 while I normally get stable 120 (both at a mix of medium and high settings)
The only thing fixing it is alt+tabbing out and back in at the start of every round
On top of that I didn't have the problem when vulkan API was first introduced to r6

Doom runs fine for me in vulkan tho

Playing with a gtx 1060 6gb oc (factory oc and some tweaking by myself) an i5 7600k clocked at 5ghz and 16gb of ram

That is quite interesting to hear, heh, sounds almost like what happens for a lot of people (mostly at the start of rounds) in CoD:MW'19.

I think my problems with Doom have actually been fixed by the #2 listed by me (perhaps installing a vastly new driver somehow screwed things, I dont know, although I haven't been Alt-Tabbing nearly as much as I did when the problems arose, and also haven't tried out SnapMap since then either.

I've a GTX 1070 with 8gb dedicated VRAM +8gb shared.

DDR4 16gb RAM. (2*8gb)

i7-8750H @ 2.2 GHz (12 CPU's) Though it has like some Turbo functions and whatnot, so it overclocks or something (says it is running at ca 4000MHz right now)

yeah, intel has had that feature for some time now, as long as your cooling solution is good enough it oc´s itself to a certain degree, mine for example is normally clocked at 3,8 and oc´s itself up to 4,2

[fenderjaguar]

Originally posted by Otto Octavius:

are you positive that an amd fix works on nvidia cards?

It works on my 750ti through displayport, DVI and HDMI, with LG W2363D 120hz and AG251FZ 240hz, on my end. no 60hz anymore :)

With my RX 570 it doesn't work with HDMI, only DP.

I think I'll take the "AMD" out the title of that video.

[!Cara]

Originally posted by fenderjaguar:

Originally posted by Otto Octavius:

are you positive that an amd fix works on nvidia cards?

It works on my 750ti through displayport, DVI and HDMI, with LG W2363D 120hz and AG251FZ 240hz, on my end. no 60hz anymore :)

With my RX 570 it doesn't work with HDMI, only DP.

I think I'll take the "AMD" out the title of that video.

oh okay, although you can also create custom resolutions in nvidia software, or didnt that work for you?

[fenderjaguar]

Originally posted by Otto Octavius:

oh okay, although you can also create custom resolutions in nvidia software, or didnt that work for you?

well I don't really use the 750ti anymore, but yeah, I used to create 1920x1078 custom resolution with forced highest refresh rate, you mean that? Also, forcing highest refresh override from drivers with nvidia works with all directx stuff

It was only when I got the RX 570 that I realised how bad custom resolutions really were with AMD, since if you create a custom resolution in AMD settings, you get other refresh rates thrown in as well. And to top it off, there's no refresh rate override with AMD drivers either (what a joke!). So I had to set about creating a final solution to it all.