Game is capped at 90 fps -- how do you remove it?

[Kindred]

Hi. I recently formatted my pc. Before this, I was getting 130 fps on VRchat. Now I'm just getting 90 fps, capped. What should I do to remove this cap? Thank you!

[Eternal Ohm]

Odd, it should've been capped to 90 FPS even before you formatted your PC unless you changed something.

Anyway you can set the cap to whatever you want by setting a steam launch option of "--fps=144" (No quotes, sets FPS cap to 144 FPS) just change 144 to whatever number you want and that will be the new cap.

[Crimson]

Ethernal, I tried this and it worked for desktop mode but is not working for vr mode. Is there a way i can fix this? I have a rtx 3070 and i want to use it properly and not get 40 fps cap

[Eternal Ohm]

Originally posted by Crimson:

Ethernal, I tried this and it worked for desktop mode but is not working for vr mode. Is there a way i can fix this? I have a rtx 3070 and i want to use it properly and not get 40 fps cap

For obvious reasons, this won't work for VR. As setting the cap above the refresh rate can easily cause tearing, which would not be great to experience in VR.

Additionally If your FPS is getting capped to half of the VR headset's refresh rate this is not because of VRChat. So setting a new cap with VRChat wouldn't work regardless.
If you don't wish for this to happen then you can disable stuff like Asynchronous Spacewarp (Oculus) or Steam's "Motion Smoothing" setting.
Note that turning these off is not generally recommended as it can cause your FPS in VR to fluctuate quite a bit. If you're fine with this then go ahead.