Windows 10: All my fullscreen games are capped at 60 fps and ive tried everything

After the windows update my games keep on being capped to 60 fps and i cant do anything to it. ive tried turning off game bar and game dvr in settings and in registry editor and nothing works.

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Most Fullscreen Games Capped at 60 FPS

Hi,

The problem is that If the game is in windowed mode, it reaches 144 fps, but in fullscreen it can't get over 60 fps.

- Not due to a hardware limit

- Any fps limit disabled in games.

- V-sync disabled in games and in nvidia control panel.

- Re-installed graphics drivers.

- Tried disabling fullscreen optimizations on the .exe of games.

- Disabled gameDVR in settings and in registry editor.

After this, I've tested some games.

these ones are not capped at 60fps in fullscreen :

- Steep (edit : tested it in borderless, not fullscreen)

- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon WIldlands

these other ones are capped at 60fps in fullscreen :

- Sea Of Thieves

- The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt

- Fortnite

- Prey

- Far Cry 5

- Steep

I'm running with Windows 10 Family, version 1803, on 64 bits OS.

And I'm using multi-monitor so my main one is a 144Hz and the second a 60Hz, but I didn't set them up in surround mode.

Any Idea of what causes this ?

 

Most Fullscreen Games Capped at 60 FPS

"Are you trying to match the games frame rates with the monitors 144Hz refresh rate, or are the fps just coincidental ?

What graphics processor does you machine use ?"

No I'm not, I want my fps to be capped at 144fps and not 60. My GPU is the GTX 1080.

For exemple on Sea Of Thieves, in windowed my gpu load is at 100% and i have 110-120 fps, when I change it in fullscreen, the load goes down to 50% and I have 60 fps.

It's doing exactly the same with Steep : in windowed 140-170fps at 100% load, and in fullscreen 60 fps at 40% load.

I'm completely sure that V-sync is disabled in the game in fullscreen, and in the control panel of Nvidia, and enabling it won't fix the thing.

"- Running Steep in Fullscreen mode @2480x1440 resolution with the eye candy

...Windowed mode runs in the same range as it does at 1440p."

I run every games @1920x1080p, and the 8GB VRAM are never fully loaded.

It's most likely a software limit rather than a hardware one, but I can't figure it out since I've done everything I could do.

 

Most Fullscreen Games Capped at 60 FPS

I managed to fix the thing, thank you for trying to help me !

I've asked on the Nvidia forums and explained how I fixed it Here.