How to lower my fps below 30

Parasaurolophus · May 2022

Hello! I would like to create an ultra high graphics preset for screenshots. But in advancedsettings or nvidia settings I can't lower max fps below 30. I would like to lower fps to 10 or maybe even 10 so as not to overheat the graphics card and experience performance problems. Thank you!

Browiseth · May 2022

if your concern is your graphics card overheating (as in, getting hot enough to the point it's at risk of suffering physical damage) then that's very unlikely to happen. in general modern PC hardware will have safety procedures (such as downclocking when temperature starts rising past a certain point) to prevent such damage.

as for your question though...sorry i wasn't more helpful eheh

Arthur_Spoonfondle · May 2022

I'm using driver number 512.15. In Nvidia control panel/manage 3D settings/global settings, I am able to select a max fps setting of 20Hz.

L_Nici · May 2022

Its pretty easy to go below 30 FPS without any graphic changes. Just go to EU PvP.

zaria · May 2022

L_Nici wrote: »

Its pretty easy to go below 30 FPS without any graphic changes. Just go to EU PvP.

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perfiction · May 2022

Go to Documents/Elder Scrolls Online/live/UserSettings.txt and find line

SET MinFrameTime.2

Change its value to 1/X (where X is your desired FPS, for example 10 fps would be 1/10 = 0.1). I tried to limit my FPS to 5 that way and it worked:

Fun fact, if you have multithreaded rendering enabled then the game ignores builtin FPS cap during loading screens (and when you're alt-tabbed to the desktop), that's why I have it capped in my nVidia control panel as well.

Parasaurolophus · May 2022

perfiction wrote: »
Go to Documents/Elder Scrolls Online/live/UserSettings.txt and find line
SET MinFrameTime.2
Change its value to 1/X (where X is your desired FPS, for example 10 fps would be 1/10 = 0.1). I tried to limit my FPS to 5 that way and it worked:

Fun fact, if you have multithreaded rendering enabled then the game ignores builtin FPS cap during loading screens (and when you're alt-tabbed to the desktop), that's why I have it capped in my nVidia control panel as well.

what value should be written for 5 frames? I wrote 0.2 and got an endless black screen when starting the game.

danno8 · May 2022

Parasaurolophus wrote: »
perfiction wrote: »
Go to Documents/Elder Scrolls Online/live/UserSettings.txt and find line
SET MinFrameTime.2
Change its value to 1/X (where X is your desired FPS, for example 10 fps would be 1/10 = 0.1). I tried to limit my FPS to 5 that way and it worked:

Fun fact, if you have multithreaded rendering enabled then the game ignores builtin FPS cap during loading screens (and when you're alt-tabbed to the desktop), that's why I have it capped in my nVidia control panel as well.
what value should be written for 5 frames? I wrote 0.2 and got an endless black screen when starting the game.

SET MinFrameTime.2 "0.2" does work but it takes about a minute for the screen to display anything. Probably related to the multithreaded setting that links framerate to menu rendering/load times.

Everything was fine once the login screen finally showed up though.

ZOS_Icy · May 2022

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