Why does time pass too fast when built, but not in the editor?

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I am currently learning to program in Unity, and made good progress. Some time ago I already did a player controller, and it worked fine. But now I switched to using Rigidbody physics. So I update (in FixedUpdate) the characters movementspeed and set the Rigidbody.velocity accordingly. In the editor it works fine.

HOWEVER:

When I build the game, the character moves ridiculously fast. To start troubleshooting I made a Text UI Element to display my Rigidbody.velocity.magnitude. It shows the same, regardless whether I’m in play mode or in the standalone.

So I decided to also monitor the time passed using Time.time. In the standalone it goes up like 3 to 5 times as fast as normal, while timeScale REMAINS at 1.

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Is there any mistake I could’ve made, which causes the time to rapidly pass while the timeScale is 1? If it is needed, I’ll post some code segments. But I honestly wouldn’t know what to post, since I’m pretty confident, that there is no mistake in it, since it runs fine in the editor. NOTE: in the editor my game runs with ~150fps while the standalone renders some 1.5k fps. But this ratio does not correlate with the factor by which the time runs faster.

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this is due to frame rate because unity has a bit of over head making the fps drop slightly but when u build the application there is no over head,

an easy fix is to times the speed by Time.deltaTime and that should match up the frame rate

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Okay, it seems like just literally posting this question has solved it… I wanted to make sure, it’s not a framerate-related issue, and changed my V-Sync mode in the nVidia control panel from “fast” to “on”, and also enabled V-Sync it in Unity, and everything worked fine.

Reverting those settings did NOT re-introduce the problem for whatever reason. The game runs fine now at high framerates.