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How to limit FPS without external software.

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Cap framerate without using Rivatuner or V-sync.

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Languages: English

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23 Aug, 2017 @ 5:34pm

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How

Select Quake Champions in your Steam Library
Right click and select "Properties"
Under the "General" tab, click "Set Launch Options..."
Add the following line:
--set /Config/CONFIG/maxFpsValue 125

It should look something like this:

If 125 is too little or too high, change the value to your desired frame limit.

Why

Because Quake Champions is still in beta, diagnostic data is constantly being uploaded while playing. Unfortunately, the higher your framerate is, the more data there is to send. This is probably(hopefully) the biggest reason the netcode has felt like total crap for months. Capping your framerate can help stabilize things a bit by ensuring you upload a constant amount of data with minimal variance from framerate jumps and dips.

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Goonery Master Sergeant 7 Apr, 2023 @ 1:58am

Downvoting for that response

gaming [author] 28 Apr, 2022 @ 12:28pm

nah :)

bonbon321 28 Apr, 2022 @ 12:22pm

Maybe put that at the top of your guide rather than the bottom in the comments now :)

gaming [author] 12 Nov, 2021 @ 6:07am

There's an option in the game settings now, personally I'd use that over an external program.

የላይኛው ዙፋን 11 Nov, 2021 @ 12:11pm

Is it better to to use this method ^
over using Rivatuner? I'm capping using RTSS, with application detection level set to low..

xelA 1 Dec, 2020 @ 1:05am

Thanks for the tip my guy!! Very much help!!!

gaming [author] 25 Sep, 2020 @ 1:33pm

This video explains the netcode situation at the time in much more detail:
https://youtu.be/WITA9DpejSg

The client framerate issue is addressed around 16 minutes in.

gaming [author] 25 Sep, 2020 @ 1:15pm

It's old news now, fixed Oct 5th, 2017.
https://bethesda.net/community/topic/105614/patch-notes-early-access-update-5-10-17?language%5B%5D=en

Game Client Fixes
[list][*]Outgoing client traffic optimization improved[/list]

It was really bad at the time. Some people even set their connections to half duplex and game performance was more stable that way, pretty hilarious actually.

Goonery Master Sergeant 25 Sep, 2020 @ 10:14am

"Because Quake Champions is still in beta, diagnostic data is constantly being uploaded while playing. Unfortunately, the higher your framerate is, the more data there is to send."

Is this speculative or do you know this for a fact?

StateofCanada 1 Sep, 2020 @ 7:25am

I've been looking for this. Don't delete. Very helpful thanks

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