Games at 120+ FPS on a 60hz monitor?

[simonz93]

I have a 60hz refreshrate monitor but I see my FPS (through both the steam FPS counter and MSI one) that some games go way above 60 FPS.

So is there a mistake? I thought 60HZ monitor can only display at the most 60FPS?

 

[clutchc]

The card is rendering that many frames per second, but since your
monitor only has a 60Hz vertical refresh rate, you will never see more than ~60 frames per second. The rest are skipped.

 

[TerryLaze]

Since he sees 120 in the overlay they do not get skipped,they just get displayed as fast as possible even if this means displaying the current frame before the previous has finished being displayed (tearing)

 

[Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163]

Yep, and some major tearing to say the least.

You get tearing at any framerate but the higher you go above 60 on that monitor, the more frequent it becomes, must be a nightmare.

 

[clutchc]

Since he sees 120 in the overlay they do not get skipped,they just get displayed as fast as possible even if this means displaying the current frame before the previous has finished being displayed (tearing)

That is what I mean by getting skipped. The card renders 120 fps, but the monitor only would show approximately every other frame because the monitor only refreshes (shows a new frame) every 1/60 second.

 

[simonz93]

interestingly though, I do not see any tearing in this game even with v-sync disabled. But I do get tearings in a game where the FPS is at 30-40 ish.