Nvidia Inspector

[DustyShinigami]

Has anyone managed to cap the game's frame rate with Nvidia Inspector? I know there are alternatives, but I prefer Inspector, but it doesn't pay any attention to what I set it to. I try to set it to 80 or 90fps and the game is either locked at 60 or 144. I've even added the game to the profile and pointing it to the executable, but nada.

[Metasparks]

I'm looking too. What exe did you point inspector to?

[DustyShinigami]

Both, to be honest. But neither work for me.

[[D]Mit.]

Yeah worked fine for me.
Disabled Vsync in the .ini's and used inspector to limit the frame rate pointing at the normal .exe ( not the launcher one ) and it stays at 60.

[DustyShinigami]

But do other frame limits work? Such as 70, 80, 90 etc.? Baring in mind that Skyrim SE is capped at 60fps by default anyway. If I select highest refresh rate in the Nvidia Control Panel it'll play at 144fps, though it's quite inconsistent, and application controlled will be 60fps.

[Metasparks]

I couldn't get it to work. Had to use EVGA Precision XOC. That worked, but it caps every application.

[Supafly]

Doesn't cap in windowed or windowed/borderless mode. Have to run game in fullscreen mode.

Alt tabbing out then back into Skyrim with break the fps limiter forcing you to reload game.

[Metasparks]

Originally posted by Supafly:

Doesn't cap in windowed or windowed/borderless mode. Have to run game in fullscreen mode.

Alt tabbing out then back into Skyrim with break the fps limiter forcing you to reload game.

For nVidia inspector or EVGA Precision XOC?

[Supafly]

Originally posted by Metasparks:

Originally posted by Supafly:

Doesn't cap in windowed or windowed/borderless mode. Have to run game in fullscreen mode.

Alt tabbing out then back into Skyrim with break the fps limiter forcing you to reload game.

For nVidia inspector or EVGA Precision XOC?

Nvidia inspector

[[D]Mit.]

Originally posted by DustyShinigami:

But do other frame limits work? Such as 70, 80, 90 etc.? Baring in mind that Skyrim SE is capped at 60fps by default anyway. If I select highest refresh rate in the Nvidia Control Panel it'll play at 144fps, though it's quite inconsistent, and application controlled will be 60fps.

You need to disable ipresentinterval in one of the inis to remove skyrim's built in vsync and then it will work

[DustyShinigami]

Ahhhh... It may not make a difference, but I've noticed I put iVSyncPresentInterval=0 instead of ipresentinterval. Will have to try that.

[DustyShinigami]

Nope. Still doesn't work. And putting ipresentinterval instead of iVSyncPresentInterval actually makes the game run worse.

[[D]Mit.]

Originally posted by DustyShinigami:

Nope. Still doesn't work. And putting ipresentinterval instead of iVSyncPresentInterval actually makes the game run worse.

Here are my .ini's :
http://www.filedropper.com/skyrim_2
http://www.filedropper.com/skyrimprefs_2

Change in the prefs.ini :

iSize H=900
iSize W=1600

to whatever resolution you play at ( propably 1900x1080 )

and

sD3DDevice="NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760" to whatever GPU you are using ( use the .ini's generated by Skyrim when you first started the game for reference and back them up )

Of course there are other settings you should set to your liking like godrays shadows difficulty save time etc but they will suffice for your testing . Don't forget to set them to read only ( right click on them and tick the box at the bottom ) after you are done with the changes.

After you are done use inspector to set it to 60 ( i don't recommend higher due to physics being tied to the framerate and as such 60+ fps can cause cows flying and items dropping through the floor among other things )

[DustyShinigami]

Originally posted by DMit.:

Originally posted by DustyShinigami:

Nope. Still doesn't work. And putting ipresentinterval instead of iVSyncPresentInterval actually makes the game run worse.

Here are my .ini's :
http://www.filedropper.com/skyrim_2
http://www.filedropper.com/skyrimprefs_2

Change in the prefs.ini :

iSize H=900
iSize W=1600

to whatever resolution you play at ( propably 1900x1080 )

and

sD3DDevice="NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760" to whatever GPU you are using ( use the .ini's generated by Skyrim when you first started the game for reference and back them up )

Of course there are other settings you should set to your liking like godrays shadows difficulty save time etc but they will suffice for your testing . Don't forget to set them to read only ( right click on them and tick the box at the bottom ) after you are done with the changes.

After you are done use inspector to set it to 60 ( i don't recommend higher due to physics being tied to the framerate and as such 60+ fps can cause cows flying and items dropping through the floor among other things )

Thanks for trying to help. I'm afraid doing this makes no difference either. I can get the game working at 60fps no problem without Profile Inspector anyway with a few tweaks in the Nvidia Control Panel. My problem is capping the frame rate using Inspector at other frame rates - anywhere from 61-143fps. No matter what I do Inspector won't do it. I try to set it at 85fps, by the way.

[Kaldaien]

Enabling a framerate limit through NVIDIA Inspector requires restarting the display driver. It's a bug that's been around for many years now.

The easiest way to reset the display driver is to reboot, NVIDIA Inspector should really have a button to do this (reset display driver without rebooting) but it doesn't :-\


I'd actually suggest using this and setting TargetFPS=WhateverYou.Want in dxgi.ini, but I'm biased because I wrote that software and know for a fact that it doesn't need any special driver help to limit framerate :)

[DustyShinigami]

I'll give that a try. I do quite like Nvidia Inspector though as I've found the frame pacing for games to be MUCH more smoother than any other frame limiter I've used.

Also, I'm aware the physics bug out if the frame rate goes over 60, but there's actually a work around. There's a command you can put into the config file that increases the physic's frame rate to match the in-game frame rate.