System Configuration > Frame Rate Limit BROKEN?

[Heliosfiend]

Hi,

Well while i was fixing my settings for the game I saw something rather odd..

1fps?

0fps?




Is this part of the update? or is it broken? please fix this. i dun wanna run into some fps related problem in the future.

[Raist]

For whatever reason the game isn't able to properly detect or report the values based on your monitor's current refresh rate. Could be the driver or something weird with the cable or ports. It also could be an issue with how the game polls the data...especially if you've set a custom rate like 75 or something other than the default rate (no exception for non-standard rate values?). Or, it could be a glitch in the code that doesn't handle reporting values based on 120Hz properly or something (if your monitor/TV is 120hz).

I would hazard a guess that the game engine would default to 60FPS at the 1:1 setting if it doesn't get the exact refresh you are running at though, since that is sort of the de-facto standard refresh rate. Note the actual frame rate that it is currently running at though (up in the upper right corner)--it's ranging from 54 to 75 in your screen shots.

Will have to check what mine says on the laptop when I log in later, just out of curiosity. Would be interesting to see what the PC shows too (runs at 75Hz)...but I haven't patched that thing in a long time, so won't be doing that tonight.


Did some poking around on my laptop. It's reading the proper refresh (60Hz), and applying them properly as 60/30/15 FPS in the menu. The config file has changed up though. It now shows a value for the refresh rate, and then a value for the FPS level (0 for none, 1 for 1:1, 2 for 1:2, etc.)

<Display Settings>
MainAdapter
ScreenLeft 99
ScreenTop 62
ScreenWidth 1600
ScreenHeight 900
ScreenMode 1
FullScreenWidth 1920
FullScreenHeight 1080
Refreshrate 60
Fps 0
AntiAliasing 0
FPSInActive 0
ResoMouseDrag 1
MouseOpeLimit 0
LangSelectSub 0
Gamma 50
UiBaseScale 2

You can open the file in a standard text editor (notepad, wordpad, textpad, etc.) and verify the refresh rate that is set and such. It's called FFXIV.cfg and is located in your Documents folder, under My Games, in the root of the game's folder.

[Heliosfiend]

I checked the display settings its almost the same to yours except for the fullscreensW/H and screenW/H/T/L/M, I'm running the game in Borderless Window

I'm guessing it's a bug that the game can't read the custom refresh rates running 75hz. (but 75hz is being read in fullscreen it's just really wierd)

I set the frame rate limit to none and just manually limit in using nvidia inspector at the moment till they can fix it or do anything about it.

<Display Settings>
MainAdapter
ScreenLeft 192
ScreenTop 146
ScreenWidth 1280
ScreenHeight 720
ScreenMode 2
FullScreenWidth 1280
FullScreenHeight 720
Refreshrate 60
Fps 0
AntiAliasing 0
FPSInActive 1
ResoMouseDrag 1
MouseOpeLimit 0
LangSelectSub 0
Gamma 50
UiBaseScale 2

[Raist]

VSYNC only applies when in true full screen mode. So long as you are running in a window (bordered or borderless modes), the game engine should try to run as high as the in-game configuration allows it (no FPS cap set, it should try to render as if there was no v-sync). So, if you want to choke it off at your monitor's refresh rate while in borderless/bordered modes you would need to set it to 1:1 FPS cap and then make sure the config file has the proper refresh rate (may require a manual edit of FFXIV.CFG to the proper refreshrate after you set the FPS cap in the GUI).