Mellow greetings Fallout fans,

I'm looking for a way to limit the FPS in the original Fallout games, specifically Fallout 2.
Problem is, my graphics card exhibits an incredibly annoying coil whine when I'm playing because the frame rate is all over the place, jumping up to around 2,000 fps.

I've tried using Nvidia Inspector to force Vsync, limit frame rate (V1 & V3 methods), and windowed mode. Some methods do keep the frame rate at 60 fps, but it drastically kills the mouse input. It becomes super-slow and there's heavy screen tearing while scrolling around (quite the opposite intention of Vsync.)

Does anyone know of any other methods I could try to keep the game from going over the 60Hz limit of my monitor without degrading the mouse input?

Thanks!

I tried every option available in Nvidia Control Panel and Nvidia Inspector (adaptive, 1/2 refresh rate etc.) but it just destroys the mouse input too much, movement is delayed and it's too difficult to point at anything accurately.

A wrapper might be a solution if it stops the framerate from going too high. I'm tempted to install Windows 95 in a virtual machine and run Fallout 2 through that.. but that might overkill! Can you recommend any ddraw wrappers?

what exactly you do with the nvidia and nvidia inspector (this is unofficial tool)? Looks like you already use some wrappers that make game work berderless-fullscreen-windowed or something like that (Win8+ by default use maxwindowedmode).

If you initially have promes - yes, first thing to try is limit FPS. If you already limti it and problems persest - maybe it any else issue. There is some in-cmpatibility for dinput (input latency), or if your game have delay in everything but not FPS drop - this is probably from default for Win8+ DXPrimaryEmulation - MaxWindowedMode.

Although, it shoul be wrapper already for latest Bethesda build with launchers and some mods (incl, ones for compatibility issues)... Yes it have one - ddraw.dll\ddraw.ini files in game folder. Try to experiment with ini file settings, or included config\launcher exe's.

Since it is already have one wrapper for resolution\compatibility, try exactly dinput wrappers. I saw some solutions for it. Try to seach input lag or input latency (+dll).

As for NV Inspector, choosing half of refreshrate from this tool introduce latency in some games, as this page say (not 100% accurate)
http://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Nvidia_Profile_Inspector
There is tweak for it (ctrl+F -> input).

Better remove entirely GeForce Experience, and probably Inspector as well. Just use normal NV Control panel. They dont needed.

Also, be careful with refreshrate. it should be higher, but not higher than supported by display. Each display have differ refreshrates for each resolutions supported.
And only FPS is a thing that always should be in some min-max limits. Refresrate more = better. And that options is NOT a synonym.

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