FPS Limiter at LCD Refresh Rate

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FPS Limiter at LCD Refresh Rate - Good or Bad?

What's currently the fastest Laptop GPU that you own or that you have used for a long period of time?

This includes the various Max-Q, Refresh and Super-Variations.

GTX 800 series or older

GTX 960M / 965M

GTX 970M

GTX 980 or 980M

GTX 1050 or 1050 Ti

GTX 1060

GTX 1070

GTX 1080

GTX 1650 or 1650 Ti

GTX 1660 Ti

RTX 2060

RTX 2070

RTX 2080

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Did you know about manual FPS Limiting before you read our post?

Yes

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Did your understanding of FPS Limiting and GPU Load improve by reading our post?

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Before reading our post, did you think that VRR (NVIDIA G-SYNC, AMD FreeSync) is already a cure against excessive FPS?

Many users might think intuitively that VRR would kind of entangle GPU output and LCD input. In our post we explain that VRR in it's default implementation is *not* a cure against excessive FPS. We argue that you can enable VRR but still benefit from an FPS limiter. It's not an "either or" but a "do both!".

Yes, I thought that VRR would cap my FPS to my monitor's refresh rate

No, I already knew that VRR does not cap FPS

I already knew that VRR does not cap FPS but I manually enabled both VSync *and* VRR to compensate this

Not sure

Other:

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Have you ever used FPS Limiters for a prolonged period of time on your hardware?

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Are you now willing to try FPS Limiters after reading our post?

Yes

Maybe

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I was already using it before

Other:

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Do you think your gaming style or your work applications could benefit from FPS Limiting?

Yes, I play a lot of older games that might run well beyond my LCD's refresh rate

Yes, I am doing a lot of 3D content creation and I have no idea how many FPS my app is generating

Yes, even in modern games I lower the detail settings to reduce the burden on my system

No, I play competitive games (solo or multi) and I care about every single millisecond

No, I mostly play games or settings that are maxing out my system anyway (I don't reach my screens refresh rate cap)

I am not sure

Other:

Which games do you *think* might significantly benefit from excessively high fps? (i.e. beyond the common 144Hz marker)

With 'excessive' we mean anything that goes way beyond the monitor's refresh rate. Feel free to list any game that you play (or that you watch on live-stream or let's play) that you suspect might be curbed by for example an 143 fps limit. Significant benefit includes a measurable player advantage in reaction times, input lag, physics, game logic etc.

Which games do you actually *know* might actually benefit from excessively high fps?

If you have sources on which you base your knowledge, please share

Do you find our analysis of the situation to be correct or incorrect?

Totally incorrect and misleading

Somewhat incorrect

Mostly correct

Absolutely correct

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What other information can you share on this topic?

With which points did you disagree? What sources do you have for further information? What related aspect did we forget to cover in our analysis? What else would you like to add?

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