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[Funkadelic Mayhem]

The other day someone in game mentioned a .cfg config to set max fps to 60. I can’t seem to find how to do it on the forums.

Do any of you know where to find this, or know how to do this?

[Greyrook]

Certainly, I think it's simple; go to your Mechwarrior install folder (probably something like C:/ProgramFiles/MWO/Mechwarrior Online) open the user.cfg in notepad and add this line

sys_MaxFPS = 60
I believe that should do it for you, but I haven't tested this

Edit: Just tested and it seemed to work. Fraps did go up to 61 for a second, but it just jittered before settling back at 60 and it might've just been a glitch.

Edited by Greyrook, 09 August 2013 - 11:00 AM.

[Funkadelic Mayhem]

seams to have worked. Thank you!

[Greyrook]

no problem!

[MnDragon]

Just out of curriosity, why would one want to do that in the first place? Does it enhance performance? I understand that if your monitor can only refresh at 60MHz that anything about 60fps is useless, but how does setting the max at 60fps help?

[Wintersdark]

Or, you could just enable VSync in game to acheive the same ends.

Capping FPS at 60 has a couple benefits, MnDragon: Higher FPS can result in tearing during fast movement. Further, rendering far more frames than you need is only making your GPU hotter than it needs to be.