[Resolved] Save your GPU, cap your FPS even with high-end models

This thread is garbage, and already existed 10 times over. You simply hopped onto the band waggon once you had the chance to copy and paste a blue, cuz it makes you feel like a mod, but you arent a mod, and never will be.

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You know what they say, it takes one to know one.

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So i guess if im a clown, so are you, and if you are a troll, so am I.

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You are entitled to your opinions. It helped others.

LOL. That’s clearly not true when I have been posting about this long before the Blues acknowledged it.

Re-adding you to my block list, so i can avoid all your bs troll threads and personal attacks on people in the future. Have a great rage filled life of copy and pasting other peoples work.

I don’t want to be a mod so I don’t know why you keep repeating this nonsense.

Good for you. Keep it that way.

LOL you are literally the one who engaged with me with an insult in the initial post.

The thing I like to point out, is that an in game FPS cap only works properly if it’s not ignored by the game.

If you lower the power limit, it has the same effect, but the game will never be able to ignore it.

Just my personal opinion, but I am thinking that lowering the power limit might be a better idea that using the in game FPS cap.

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I’ve tried to explain this, but they didn’t understand.

I actually did that after you shared your experience yesterday. Dropped it down to 80% and it has been much better. Higher overall utilization, but temps are lower.

Saves on power bill also! Glad it worked out for you.

My 3080 stays at 58C, air cooled with ambient around 25C. I am happy with those results.

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i was wondering why my fans were kicking up such a storm while playing D4. I lowered my fps to 60 (had defaulted to 150 for some reason), as my monitor is 60hz anyway. Seems to have done the trick.

good tips.

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Can’t speak for anyone but myself, but I’ve never understood the obsession with stratospheric frame rates.

I cap my 3080ti at 60FPS, because frankly I can’t tell the difference. I also don’t really buy into the idea that my game play is so important that I need updates every thousandth of a millisecond.

What are ya’ll seeing that I don’t?

That’s fine if it works for you and you can’t tell the difference. For me; however, I have played for many years on a 60hz monitor with even higher frames (yes, it makes a difference) and then switched to 144hz and it was a noticeable difference.

Movement of characters and the scenery is smoother. When I travel, I have a 60z laptop and feels gross to play on after getting used to higher refresh rates.

You should always match or try to match the frame rate as close to the refresh rate of your monitor, to avoid screen tearing.

Also, higher frame rates generate more frames per second, resulting in smoother motion.

There are web site that visualize the difference between low and high FPS screens, usually by moving an animation from the left to the right of the screen.

You might not notice the issue because you are used to what you are seeing at 60 Hz, but I switched recently to a 165 Hz monitor after years of gaming on a 60 Hz panel and would never go back.

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ppl with ā€œfried gpuā€ should have serious problem… its not the game…

I know my 4090 tried to take off into space yesterday just once when I logged into the game after a DC when they put out that update.

That is an expensive lift-off!

There is a game issue that is separate from people’s GPUs frying.

imgur .com/1OcjjtZ

If anyone is bored, here’s a quick breakdown of my experience with different FPS values on my 3080. This is all done with a pretty mild undervolt, so it improves if I went more aggressively. Not by much, though. Texture render quality honestly don’t change that much, I just prefer to keep it on medium because I only have a 10gb card.

Note that I didn’t record the 120/140+ vendor values because I already have many times in the past and don’t want to risk tripping my breaker again (done so 4 times now from vendoring, which is why I’m posting on these threads). I already know it gets to about 64-65 degrees and the wattage is the max for a 3080 (about 340watts).

I also bought rtx 4070ti. It works very good now. I had some problems using frame generator and DLAA, when it was turned on I got thrown out of the game all the time. Tried to find a way to turn on hardware accelerated setting cause it says that it needs to be turned on for it to work, but it wasn’t possible in win 11. Do you have any tips what can I do?

It’s weird but I have something going on with D4 where my GPU shows 0% but if I load up Steam and game I get 40%-50%+ usage. I’d actually love for my GPU to show life with this game. Already reported my problem in a bug thread someone else created.

EDIT: I had looked up optimizations for D4 and quite a few recommended cranking up the FPS to the max which sounds like it would be bad so I have since dropped mine.

May I ask how you did this? I’m worried about my card, also a 3080 Nvidia on a Strix laptop.

Wondering if I need a 3rd party program or if I can do ith with my Nvidia software. Matched the framerate to my refresh and it made a difference but it’s still too hot for my liking (68 in town, 75 in combat) and near 80 when I open inventory. Approx 25 Celsius ambient.

Alt+Z will pull up the GeForce overlay
Click on Performance
Slide the Power Maximum bar down from 100% to the number you want.

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