Locked Frame rate after Nvidia Graphics card Update [Issue or Bug?]

Hello Everyone,

Here’s a problem that I’m currently facing. Before I updated my Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 graphics card driver I was getting high frame rates between 159-187 everything was running well no issues.

After I upgraded my graphics card Nvidia installed something called Geforce experience which scanned the computer to optimize my game. I noticed Unity crashed while Nvidia was scanning my computer to optimize games. When I opened up unity again I saw these Icons on my each window in the Unity editor. (picture below)

Later on, I found out that the icon was caused by a setting in Nvidia’s experience that was meant for broadcasting so I disabled it and it got rid of the icons.

After I fix the Icon problem I went back and launched unity again, I then saw that FPS were no longer showing 159-180 and I saw this in the profiler. (Picture below)

I did some test and came to the conclusion that the issue was the graphics card update affecting unity. When I changed the quality settings to fastest I got 180 fps back but when I changed back to
fantastic it still ran fine with some occasional stutters but locked unity to 60 fps. I even made a blank empty scene with no assets and just a camera and the same thing happens it locks the FPS to 60 and below. The last thing I tried to do was uninstall everything and clean install the graphics card driver. Again it didn’t work it was still locked at 60fps and below.

This is a very strange issue and has never happened to me. Does any one know of a possible solution for this?

Hi. This seems to be v-sync locking your framerate to 60 fps. First look in Quality setting in unity and see if you have vsync enabled. Disable this if enabled. If that is not the case it should be a setting somewhere in Nvidia control panel that can overide the vsync option for applications.

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Thanks! It actually worked. The funny part was that I saw this option after I overrode turn off Vsync in Nvidia control panel 4 days ago. I thought this had nothing to do with the FPS drop since I changed the settings in Nvidia control panel and blamed it on the graphics card. Thanks for the help :slight_smile: