How to lock a game at a solid 30FPS?

xMRxVENGEANCEx

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Well here's the thing, I've been playing AC Black Flag again and what I'm doing currently does seem to be better than dropping from say 60 to 40, HOWEVER. It still gives me some issues. Okay so what I'm doing right now is, is I'm not using the in game V-sync because it does cap it to 30FPS, but when I look at the floor or the sky, or I'm on a rather tall building, it puts it up to 60. Now that wouldn't be so bad if it didn't drop down to 30 if you were in any other place, and it gives it a horrible stuttery effect. So what I'm doing is I have in game V-sync off, with half refresh rate adaptive v-sync on the Nvidia control panel, but I don't know how but it still manages to sometimes go over 30FPS and get to like 40, and a drop to 30 is rather noticeable. I've tried EVGA precision but it seems to be kinda unstable going at around 28-32 FPS, which can also be noticeable, but what's really worse is that since it's not real V-sync there is screen tearing and the screen tearing on this game is rather bad indeed. I have tried using in game v-sync and also Precision for the ground and sky parts to be locked at 30, but people say that causes collisions and I haven't played for a prolonged period of time to test it but, it seems it's probably right. So basically, I need something that'll completely surpass the game v-sync feature and keep it at a SOLID 30FPS, with maybe only a one or two frame raise, and no screen tearing. Ahh Ubisoft never make it easy.
 
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you can try downloading msi afterburner or evga precision & limiting the frame rate to 30...i havent done that w/ this one though. i did experiment with capping it to 30 b/c of some people complaining about 30 fps being too little, so i turned up the AA & turn on half-refresh vsync. it didnt lock for some reason...but there werent major frame hitches & i couldnt, or could barely tell, the difference from ~40 to a consistent 60.

so anyway yeah i think its a good idea & i hope you can cap it w/ one of hte programs i mentioned, if not maybe its not that bad unlocked for you either.

Burnoutaudi

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you can try downloading msi afterburner or evga precision & limiting the frame rate to 30...i havent done that w/ this one though. i did experiment with capping it to 30 b/c of some people complaining about 30 fps being too little, so i turned up the AA & turn on half-refresh vsync. it didnt lock for some reason...but there werent major frame hitches & i couldnt, or could barely tell, the difference from ~40 to a consistent 60.

so anyway yeah i think its a good idea & i hope you can cap it w/ one of hte programs i mentioned, if not maybe its not that bad unlocked for you either.
 
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