How do you uncap fps to >300?

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I just saw a streamer hitting 400 fps. How?

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Advanced options.
Set custom framerate.
Though if your hardware cannot produce high framerate, don’t be surprised.

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And the max is at 300. Of course I know that already.

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That’s a limiter.
You can just leave it to zero.
If your hardware can push beyond that, it will. Totally useless though.

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What are you talking about? When I enter 0 it defaults to 30, and it definitely caps fps at 30.

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I don’t know how. I don’t know why. Surely 300 fps is enough for anyone given that 240hz is the highest refresh I’ve ever seen on a monitor.

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There are two options with the frame limiter. I don’t exactly recall the names but it should be something like “lock to monitor refresh rate” and the other. As i said, if your hardware supports it, then you’ll get higher framerate.
Though anything above 60 is a debate in itself.
TLDR: No real reason to have extremely high framerate.

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The display based option caps the fps at 10 above your monitor’s refresh rate.

Anyone actually have a clue?

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The only use for going above 300fps is to further reduce the input lag that overwatch has.

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Apart from Widow, the TTK is so high that it barely seems worth it. OW is fast paced, but it’s not a twitch shooter.

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Yeah it’s not worth it at that point but if your fps is less than 60 or even 100 it’s worth trying to get over 150fps to reduce the floaty feel Overwatch has.
Someone did a test on it if you’re interested

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It’s in an OW config file. Pretty much it’s a text document in which the FPS limit is there. Change the FPS limit line from 300 to 400 and it’ll let your fps go higher.

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What are you gonna do with 400fps? xD

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Exactly what I am wondering. I use a 240hz monitor and even for me, 400 fps is a lot. Heck, children in Africa could eat those extra fps

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I have 240hz but game is so badly optimized it doesn’t even keep stable 200+.

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Thank you.

Can confirm it works. Does everything else written there still apply? The cap is indeed 400 as at 500 it went back to 300. Making the file read only is an awkward solution to defaulting back to 300 when going to the settings page.

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or because at some point its just pointless

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More fps means lower input lag between the components and the PC.
If you play at 60FPS on a 60hz monitor you are not going to play well. But, if you play at 500FPS on a 60hz monitor you will do better.

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Hello thread from over a year ago

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Hello thread from well over a year ago.

You can play well with 60 fps on a 60hz.

I also question the degree to which you would “play better” as you assert with 500 fps on a 60 hz screen, within the context of how overwatch tends to play.

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