Adjusting audio in Windows 10, INCREASES FPS, I have no idea why...
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Type|Item|Price :----|:----|:---- **CPU** | Ryzen 5 2600 **Motherboard** | MSI B450 Tomohawk **Video Card** | Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070
I am regularly able to hit 60fps in battlefield 1, and other games, according to the in-game fps counter, but I have been a tad suspicious that I am not actually *seeing* that 60fps. As I usually don't see gameplay as buttery smooth as many gameplay clips I see around.
I was playing verdun heights and accidentally adjusted the volume on my keyboard, causing the windows 10 overlay to pop up on-screen for a few seconds. During those glorious moments the gameplay came through smoother than I have **ever** seen it. Sure enough, every time I adjust the volume, the overlay comes up and the gameplay goes buttery smooth. As far as I can tell, the quality does not diminish in the slightest. As far as I can tell the game is always outputting 60fps, but for some reason it isn't coming through clearly until some overlay from windows appears on-screen.
I have disabled the "animate controls and elements inside windows" and tried to poke around various windows settings for a solution, but most of my searches on this topic just return "how to disable the overlay" results. Honestly at this point I would *love* it if anyone has an idea for how to get the overlay "stuck" on-screen for an entire game. Obviously implementing the actual fix would be a lot better, but I'll take a hack if anyone has an idea.
EDIT: For what it's worth I stumbled into a potential fix. It seems to have something to do with the "windowed" vs "fullscreen" setting in battlefield. I switched from fullscreen to windowed and suddenly everything seemed a bit better, and upon switching back to fullscreen the problem seemed to remain fixed. I have no idea why this was an issue at all... I will say I find bf1 to be *incredibly* inconsistent in performance map to map.