can i play 120 fps games on a 144hz monitor

[Mikasa Ackerman]

i decided i will get a 144hz gsync 1440p monitor and i am right now making a list of all games, and for a few like resident evil it says it supports up to 120, does that make a big dfference ?

[Supafly]

It's fine, even on a non gync/freesync monitor it's fine

I've ran games at 30- 300 fps on my 144hz non gync monitor for years without issues. Games saying they support upto 120 are likely referencing fps not screen refresh rate in hz. This will have something to do with how the games are coded as some are coded in a way that calculates things like the way physics work in relation to fps. This makes games act weird when fps excees what the game was designed for.

Even if the games could only handle 30 fps you could still runit on a 144+hz screen. it'd either be hard capped to 30 or you'd have to manually cap it to 30fps ( not your screens refresh rate)