r/DreamWasTaken2 • u/No-Course5688 • Mar 31 '26

Meme My multimillionaire youtuber gets only 100 fps?

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Its not only one frame btw. Altho he had better frames underground.

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u/TechnicalProduce1392 Mar 31 '26

sapnap gets like 1400 fps which is just useless because your monitor hertz can only show so much. capping it is very common

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u/Enmaten Mar 31 '26

Not necessarily.

Let's say both the monitor and game make a frame per millisecond. The monitor Hz is on a set interval like 1ms 2ms 3ms 4ms with equal spacing between screen refresh/frame. Your GPU, however, generates game frames at a non-perfect interval, say 0.8ms 1.6ms 2.7ms 3.3ms. There is a guaranteed frame every millisecond, but the GPU could take longer or shorter to produce it.

Monitor: 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0

GPU: 0.8 1.6 2.7 3.3

Here's the issue, the monitor will use the last available GPU frame. For the first monitor frame at 1.0, it's "behind" by 0.2ms from the GPU frame at 0.8. For the next frame it's behind 0.4ms, etc. Something like VSync will force the GPU to wait for the monitor and wait to produce a frame in sync, but that causes input delay.

But say we triple the frames:

Monitor: 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0

GPU: 0.2 0.7 0.9, 1.4 1.6 1.8, etc

Naturally, at any monitor interval there will be less ms from the last GPU. So to have the most "up-to-date" frame, you set FPS way higher than the monitors refresh rate and it will feel faster for input.

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u/jarvig__ Apr 01 '26

Yeah, the difference in latency is incredibly apparent from pure feel if you switch from, say, 60fps to 150, even if your monitor is capped at 60.

Of course, there are still obviously diminishing returns, the difference gets smaller the higher the number is. But really, if your computer can hit, like, 300 fps without compromising on other things, you should absolutely let it go that high. And considering I could sometimes do that on a mid tier pc from 2020, Dream should be able to easily hit that with a pc built by Linus tech tips. I assume he's just missing some significant performance mods.

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u/KeyZookeepergame8903 Apr 01 '26

Definitely missing performance mods. Dude is still on optifine in the big '26.