Fps Locked At 30 Fps For Every Steam Game

[Evorez]

I was playing Euro truck simulator 2 when all of a sudden it locked to 30 fps when normally it would be at 50-60. I then tried playing another game that would go way over 30 fps and look again its 30 fps. I then restart my computer and try 3 different games and same thing happens. Could anyone pls help me?

[just.kamk /idle]

Did you install any software recently? Especially GPU / display related?
Did you lower the refresh rate of your display, or changed anything regarding your display?
(that would also affect vsync)

[Evorez]

Originally posted by kamk:

Did you install any software recently? Especially GPU / display related?
Did you lower the refresh rate of your display, or changed anything regarding your display?
(that would also affect vsync)

all i did was restart the game and that happend

[just.kamk /idle]

You mentioned the same thing happening with other games.
Pretty sure it's not just related to the game itself then. So you must have done something recently.

[Evorez]

Originally posted by kamk:

You mentioned the same thing happening with other games.
Pretty sure it's not just related to the game itself then. So you must have done something recently.

do you have any ideas of anything to do?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Do u have NVIDIA GPU?
Did you perhaps apply VSync=Adaptive (Half Refresh) within NVIDIA Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings? Either that or you have a GPU related app (like MSI Afterburner w/ RivaTuner) that perhaps has a Frame-Rate-Lock applied.

[Evorez]

Originally posted by Bad-Motha:

Do u have NVIDIA GPU?
Did you perhaps apply VSync=Adaptive (Half Refresh) within NVIDIA Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings? Either that or you have a GPU related app (like MSI Afterburner w/ RivaTuner) that perhaps has a Frame-Rate-Lock applied.

i have a NVIDIA GTX 965 m and how d oyou get to NVIDIA controll pannel

[just.kamk /idle]

Originally posted by MattO:

Originally posted by kamk:

You mentioned the same thing happening with other games.
Pretty sure it's not just related to the game itself then. So you must have done something recently.

do you have any ideas of anything to do?

Think about what you've done before this issue occured, revert those changes.

Bad-Motha suggested already possible causes.

[rojimboo]

Originally posted by MattO:

Originally posted by Bad-Motha:

Do u have NVIDIA GPU?
Did you perhaps apply VSync=Adaptive (Half Refresh) within NVIDIA Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings? Either that or you have a GPU related app (like MSI Afterburner w/ RivaTuner) that perhaps has a Frame-Rate-Lock applied.

i have a NVIDIA GTX 965 m and how d oyou get to NVIDIA controll pannel

Get Nvidia Inspector and go to Global Settings. See what Frame Limiter says.

I had this on my laptop. Apparently one of the Energy Saving options when unplugged forces 30fps framelimit globally.

It was creepy and made me quite angry.

There are many Optimus users angry in fact.

Just set Framelimiter to Off.

[_I_]

is your monitor 1080i, thats effectively 30fps with vsync on

[ChXris]

Originally posted by Smarty Os:

I was playing Euro truck simulator 2 when all of a sudden it locked to 30 fps when normally it would be at 50-60. I then tried playing another game that would go way over 30 fps and look again its 30 fps. I then restart my computer and try 3 different games and same thing happens. Could anyone pls help me?

Solution: I recently bought a laptop from ASUS ROG STRIX (Nvidia)

Nvidia Control Panel> Settings> Battery Boost to 30 FPS (uncheck this option)