New projects max out at 74fps, loaded projects max out at thousands of fps

Unity Engine
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This is driving me crazy. I kept creating new projects - empty ones, and just hitting ‘play’ and they max out at around 74 fps. However, I downloaded some example projects and they reach frame rates in the thousands. Even if I attempt to set the frame rate to something higher than 74 they still will never reach above that. Is there something in these empty scenes that is completely throttling my system?

2

check your Vsync settings

3

I did try turning that off as well. I’m putting this on Awake with no improved results…

QualitySettings.vSyncCount = 0;
Application.targetFrameRate = 1000;

The sample files I’m using - i remove EVERYTHING and they’re still faster. I would assume it has to be something in the project settings

4

There are a lot of project settings which affect framerate. Things like forward rendering vs. deferred, lighting with ambient illumination, all the Quality settings, Graphics settings, etc. The default settings in new projects aren’t all set for maximum performance.

5

I pretty much turned everything in graphics and quality settings all the way down and there has been no difference

6

OK so I did all that THEN I changed vsync and the frame rate via script and now im getting 3,500 FPS…now I just have to figure out which setting it was that fixed it

7

probably had the wrong quality setting selected or something.