how to limit FPS with AMD Radeon RX 580?

[The Dark Forest Theory]

the target control FPS seems to not effect the application (steam reports the fps at being over 1k several times. it's burning out my GPU and nothing seems to be working. anyone know a fix? maybe a package file? change some line of txt in the game? help?

[igazor]

There is nothing that can be done with the game files to fix this as TS3 has no functional built-in fps limiter.

The solution is to use a third party GPU utility to set up a profile for TS3w.exe and use that to cap the fps to the refresh rate of your monitor. If 60 Hz, then that would be 60 fps, some monitors of course can run higher. For AMD, the first one to try would usually be RivaTuner Stats Server (RTSS). I've been using it for years on mine and it works perfectly, except that one has to remember to have RTSS running before launching the game (it takes up next to no resources). It can be configured to start up with Windows, just be careful to not X out of the application rather than minimizing it after adjusting its settings.

https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/rtss-rivatuner-statistics-server-download.html
(The real downloads are 2/3 of the way down the page, ignore any in the upper right corner that may appear if you have no ad blocker as those would be bogus ads)

You may find recommendations for others, including many from me, for the Nvidia Control Panel and Inspector. But those won't work for us because they are specifically for Nvidia cards.

[cruinne]

I haven't had an AMD card in a while, so I don't know if this advice is still good, but here's the solution that used to work:

Open the Catalyst Control Center then navigate to Graphics > 3D > all. Scroll down to "Wait for vertical refresh" and set it to "Quality - always on". Also, enable openGL triple buffering beneath the vsync setting.

[igazor]

Yes, what cruinne suggests should be done within CCC and/or Crimson or the Radeon Pro control panel, whichever one works with the card in question. But for just about everyone playing TS3 on AMD, the AMD specific tools don't seem to be enough to cap the frame rates by themselves.