Is it possible to force unlock a games framerate?

[Dylzan]

The game in question is Split Second. It has a 30FPS lock on it and seemingly no way of unlocking it. Is there any way of forcing it to run at a higher framerate, via the Geforce Experience/Nvidia Control Panel or will I be stuck with it at 30FPS?

 

[ABagOfFritos]

Lots of games will have mods available that can unlock framerates, this is the only option if the game developer locks the framerate.

 

[manofchalk]

Depends whats restricting the framerate.
Vsync is the most likely one, so turning that off is the place to start. Its not going to be your display settings so the Nvidia utilities wont do anything. Otherwise the game is hard locked at whatever FPS, in which case only modification to the game files will unlock it (which can be sometimes fairly easy, just changing 30 to 60 in a txt file a lot of the time).

 

[Dylzan]

I've looked at the video settings and VSync is off, turning it off also seems to crash the game annoyingly. What kind of file am I looking for in the installation files?

 

[manofchalk]

Typically their .ini files, you can open them with notepad just fine.
Though backup whatever files you make changes to, lest you stuff up something and the game no longer works.

The perks of being a PC gamer :lol:

 

[Dylzan]

Looked at the files, no INI files :/ just a lot of DLL files and a language/licence file (securom DRM ftw)

 

[Karnosiris]

A lot of bad ports lock the framerate at something horrible like 30 regardless of whether you turn vsync off or on, but in most its possible to change it by editing a file somewhere or other as others have mentioned. Finding the right file and line can be a pain then, which is why you should visit

http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Home

and search for whatever game you're having trouble with. If there is a way to unlock the framerate, there will probably be a step by step guide showing you how to do it. The website also has a bunch of fixes listed to common problems which aren't framerate related.

If that fails just google it. There is no failsafe method of unlocking the frame rate in every game out there.

 

[Frag Maniac]

This game as far as I recall is not one you can edit in a higher FPS with, since it uses proprietary file extensions.

Sometimes employing triple buffering externally via Direct3D Overrider uncaps the 30 FPS limit, like in NFS Rivals, but I don't think that works in this game.

I checked both PCGamingwiki and WideScreenGamingForums and neither have any mention of a 30 FPS cap remover.

Just have to live with it. They claimed the reason was to give it a more cinematic look, but being as it can dip below 30 FPS with high res, even on fairly good hardware, that really translates to it's too poorly optimized, so they hard coded in a 30 FPS cap.

 

[Dylzan]

Thank you Karn and Frag, looks like I'll just have to deal with the 25-30FPS 🙁