This would be a good idea and I am in support of it, however there is still a ways to go before that can happen.
For ex, using the FPS unlocker in this game will break the entire game. The developer said they reached out to Roblox engineers to investigate this issue, but even they don’t know what’s going on.
Can we please remove the 60 FPS cap for games and Roblox Studio is possible? I support this a ton due to a lot of users not getting a fast and reliable speed on games that are either expensive/huge open-world games, or games that spam bricks until it breaks the core.
As a developer and user, I can say that having the 60 FPS cap has ruined some high-end games and expensive games on the platform that provide a lot of memory/storage and a huge world as I have to use an FPS Unlocker in order to achieve smoother game experience and not lag too often on my laptop. Unlockers at the moment are a great substitute and workaround for getting more than 60 FPS but removing the cap itself will be much more beneficial for users using the Unlocker and low-end devices who can exceed such a limit.
I do think before they lift the cap limit for FPS, they should test it out what would happen and see if it could be feasible with low-end users and high-end users on different devices and such.
I wonder if they have plans to remove and improve FPS since RDC 2019, if I recall though, they did announce some changes to FPS later this year or in the future in RDC 2019.
I’d like to mention that I’ve been playing Roblox at 165 Hz for a while now. It’s beautiful. More importantly, everything works as expected.
I’ve been using the FPS unlocker for this. Roblox should definitely implement this change. After all, someone else has already done it! Better yet, it’s open-source. All Roblox has to do is take that code and implement it. I didn’t buy an RTX 3080 and 165Hz monitor for nothing!
One thing Roblox needs to fix on their end for uncapped FPS is the default camera control scripts.
I’ve noticed on my 120Hz screen that, if you start test mode in studio with multiple clients, if you are focused in one window and haven’t focused the other windows yet, they will be running in 120Hz until you focus on them and then they will cap to 60 and unfocusing them will take them down to 15, or whatever the specific number is.
Still very much needed. I do understand that there are technical limitations behind this (as in things that would need to be looked into to support this) that go against removing the 60 FPS cap, but we should be honest here: it’s ridiculous that Roblox is locked to 60 frames. We’re in 2021. Even a 360 Hz monitor has already reached the market. Striving for higher refresh rates is something the common consumer seeks now.
Roblox is extremely outdated in this field compared to any major game engine or even just games per say; Roblox should really invest into this feature so that it can begin taking a step for the better.
I personally believe for example Future lighting would be much more immersive if it could run at the same rate as my monitor can.
I always run roblox at 120hz with the FPS unlocker, and there are no problems with the core. (apart from 1 visual effect in my own game due to using RenderStepped to offset the CFrame of something in a cutscene which isn’t tied to the delta frame time, so it goes faster than 60)
I believe this issue to be one that’s grown since 2016 and will continue to grow as time goes on. Thus, I’m bumping this feature request in the hopes that an updated response could be given. Although this issue doesn’t currently impact me, it seems to impact many in the Roblox community. (83,000+ views on this feature request alone.)
I’d first like to point people’s attention to the official response that we do have:
For connection purposes, I’d like to point to the other feature requests regarding the fps cap:
Additionally, this is a discussion regarding the fps cap:
I made a response to the discussion to ask how might this feature be implemented:
(I feel the default should be as it is now so that older games are not broken. And, that there be options like 30fps, 60fps, 120fps, etc.)
With Roblox’s market growing more of an adult audience, and wanting to, the percentage of high-end devices should be expected to grow. With that, I hope this topic can see an update from someone at Roblox and I thank you for reading.
Everyday for the past 5 years I login to studio and have to run an external program to uncap my FPS that breaks randomly with updates
oh my god can this just be supported? Is there any legitimate reason this isn’t at least baked into Studio? like seriously?
I understand that you may think this is a good idea, but I found that in certain versions of Windows, games will be extremely laggy without an FPS cap, however, it would be nice if you could change the FPS cap in the settings menu (escape menu)
You can unlock your FPS through Roblox file configuration and the game still runs the same. I have no idea why can’t they just add an FPS limit setting, like overall there should be a whole page dedicated for graphics settings.
This would probably be a better idea - having the ability to set your own FPS cap as opposed to it just trying to run as high as it possibly can.
I believe it should be optional for the game, if it was 120fps for every game forced then some games that use task.wait() (1/60) instead of RunService to calculate per frame will break.
Thats not really an issue. RenderStepped, task.wait() and others will run slower if your FPS is below 60. Just write good code lol
I completely agree with this. It’s very annoying and a hastle to use an FPS Unlocker just for it to have errors, break when roblox releases an update.
Coming back to this thread.
Roblox at 165 hertz is indeed wonderful.
Though, I did notice you actually don’t necessarily need an FPS unlocker for it.
I figured out there’s apparently a settings file somewhere where Roblox installs on your computer where you can sorta uncap the FPS, it’s weird.
Everything definitely looks a whole lot smoother tho.
Haven’t noticed any issues with scripts either, everything runs fine.
task.wait()doesn’t seem to be showing any issues either.
Not sure if the whole “1/60th of a second” thing is true because it seems like task.wait() is capable of waiting times that are WAYYYYYY shorter than that, shorter than any of RunService’s step signals.
This is the setting in question
And it lies in here
(be careful to get the right version, usually it’s the most recent one)
My fps unlocker now uses this method to unlock the fps (since hypernion), it doesn’t mess with roblox in anyway other than making this file
task.wait(), RunService.Heartbeat() and RunService.RenderStepped() are all tied to the framerate. A higher framerate will lead to smaller wait times. I am not sure about the old wait() though
The issue is mainly with games that don’t work with an unlocked fps
Here is a reply on a similar topic from bitdancer, https://devforum.roblox.com/t/do-fps-unlockers-work-to-this-day/2628490/13
Same with Botw. If you change it to 60FPS using mods on Cemu, it makes the game tick move 2x faster, and messes with Timed side-quests.
I might be wrong on this but I think roblox’s physics work slightly differently on higher frame rates. I’ve seen people use this to their advantage in obby or parkour games, although it’s like very slightly different and almost the same thing
That doesn’t mean it can’t be fixed though
The Roblox physics engine runs at 240Hz, so it isn’t directly tied to the framerate, and I’m pretty sure it adjusts itself if the framterate. However, I don’t know if it rounds to like running 4, 3 or 2 times every frame (if you have like 60fps, 90fps or 120 fps) or if it’s made to always run 240 times per second (running 3 times one frame, 4 times the other, if you have like 75fps)
To verify this, I would have to search up on the devforum. I might have seen this in some post about giving developers access to the physics loop (I tried to find it, I couldn’t)
The physics is still somewhat tied to the framerate since the physics steps happen in between Runservice.Stepped and Runservice.Heartbeat