fps is locked to my monitor’s refresh rate

[whatsaheart02]

hello, i have been trying to fix this issue for days but still haven’t been able to fix it and none of the issues sent here are the same as mine. the issue is that when i’m using the fps unlocker the FPS does unlock from 60 but locks out at 180, my monitor’s overclocked refresh rate. this happens in both full screen borderless and windowed borderless, in full screen exclusive the issue still happens but after i tab out and in it solves it. even though this “solves it” i don’t really like using it as this mode sometimes crashes the game when alt tabbing. is there a way to make it so i can run 180+ FPS other than in fullscreen exclusive or in a way that my game doesn’t crash and that i don’t have to alt tab every time so it works? a small detail is that when i am tabbed out of the game whatever the window mode the unlocker works correctly and i reach FPS up to 200+. this is with both the latest version of the unlocker and genshin. thanks in advance!

[whatsaheart02]

ok nevermind! apparently it's a gsync issue?? after switching from "enable for windowed and full screen mode" to "enable for full screen mode" in the gsync settings on the nvidia control panel my FPS is not limited anymore even when using fullscreen borderless! :)

[whatsaheart02]

ok so updating this, so basically what happens is my fps caps to my monitor's refresh rate when gsync is on for fullscreen + borderless and i'm playing in fullscreen borderless, if i disable gsync my fps doesn't cap, and if i play in fullscreen exclusive this issue doesn't happen but playing in that mode is very problematic, i didn't find any solution online, i have vsync off. is there a fix?

[Festive4020]

I can also confirm this is the solution for my issues as well!

[farsdewibs0n]

fps caps to my monitor's refresh rate when gsync is on for fullscreen + borderless

Isn't that how gsync works?

Disable gsync for higher fps. If you want to keep gsync on, disable it for Genshin Impact

[Festive4020]

fps caps to my monitor's refresh rate when gsync is on for fullscreen + borderless

Isn't that how gsync works?

Disable gsync for higher fps. If you want to keep gsync on, disable it for Genshin Impact

To clarify, for my situation, the fps unlocker wasn't unlocking the fps at all, but disabling gsync fixed the fps unlocker not working.

Though in general, gsync is intended to do the opposite of what vsync does. Gsync is so your monitor's refresh matches your framerate.

For the original poster here, they likely want a higher framerate than their refresh rate, and yeah. For that I'd imagine they may need to turn off gsync. I'm not sure how gsync handles that. I just failed to clarify that gsync fixed my slightly separate issue of the fps unlocker not working at all!