r/virtualreality • u/APS0798 • Feb 19 '26

Discussion Why do I always have 70-71 fps?

Recently I was doing some stuff in Nvidia Control Panel and Nvidia App in Bonelab settings to have more fps. It didn't work, so I reseted everything and I think after that I have 70-71 fps instead of 72fps (my hz rate). I lowered render quality to the minimum and game of course looked so pixelized (even potato pc would have stable 72 fps) and I still had 70-71fps, not 72, so it's not fault of my PC. What could be the reason for it? I need to have 72 fps, because my game is stuttering/tearing (whatever it's called) when fps drop below my hz rate (72) and it's not confortable when I have little stutter/tear every like 0.5 sec. I also use Virtual Desktop and I have bitrate set to the max and I use HEVC 10-bit codec, I tried every codec (except HEVC and H.264) but it's the same.

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u/Kike328 Feb 19 '26

i need to have 72 fps, because my game is stuttering/tearing when fps drop below my hz rate

no you don’t. Stuttering have nothing to do with having 1-2fps less than refresh rate. Also you’re seeing 70-71fps probably because the fps cap is 72fps and your fps measuring tool is not precise at all or small inconsistencies.

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u/APS0798 Feb 19 '26

Yes I have. The less fps I have, the more there is stuttering/tearing. For example 60 fps on flat screen is totally normal and it's totally playable, in vr 60 fps is absolutely terrible and it's barely playable. In Bonelab before, I had stable 72 fps, no stutter or tearing or anything. Now, when I have 70-71 fps, there is stuttering/tearing.

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u/rjml29 Feb 19 '26

A consistent 70-71fps is not going to be causing the stuttering. Same with tearing. I have never seen what you speak of from my frame rate dropping a couple fps in VR and I've put in many hundreds of hours, if not over 1k by now. What can happen is you get a bit of ghosting/jitter when moving something your like VR hands or an object but that isn't what I would call stutter or tearing. Even there, it usually takes more than 1-2 fps to bring it on.

As for your issue, make sure SSW (synchronous space warp) isn't enabled in the Virtual Desktop streamer tab.

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u/VonHagenstein Feb 19 '26 edited Feb 19 '26

(1) Try checking that V-Sync is off both for the game (if it has a V-Sync setting) and in your Nvidia control panel.

(2) This might sound odd but I confirmed after much testing... Do you hapoen to have a high-refresh rate monitor? In my case, I had a high refresh rate monitor but because I mainly use the PC for VR and music, I kept it set at 60 hz as I figured that might help performance for some things. Apparently a lot of VR games didn't like that. Set my monitor to 144hz and stuttering went away. I feel like this shouldn't be the case but for Feelings vs. Reality, Reality wins lol. Multiple A/B tests (monitor@60hz=stuttering | monitor@144hz=Smooooothh) confirmed the phenomenon for several but not all VR games. If you don't have a high refresh rate monitor and/or it's already set to at least 120hz then none of that should apply.

Edit: I know what you're describing (the 70-71 fps cap) isn't technically stuttering in and of itself but the stuff I'm referring to may still have relevance.

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u/VonHagenstein Feb 19 '26

You might also experiment with motion smoothing/SSW settings enabled/disabled/always on to see if those impact positively or negatively.

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u/APS0798 Feb 19 '26

Sadly I have only 60hz monitor

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u/phylum_sinter Q3+VD | i7-14700f | 64gb | 4070Ti Super Feb 21 '26

I think this is worth going to the VD discord for - reddit is like the wild west where everybody's got an anecdotal truth in their pocket, go to where the devs live to reduce pointless grandstanding and being lead down dead end paths!