Question Unity framerate still synced to vsync instead of target framerate

Hi guys!

Been researching into this issue a bit and have seen tons of issues with Android in relation to this kinda thing but unfortunately I'm experiencing this during Windows builds.

Breakdown of my problem:
I have an issue where no matter what values I set QualitySettings.vSyncCount to, and what I set Application.targetFrameRate to, when building the game and running it the framerate always returns to whatever vsync would have it as.

Things I've tried:
- Setting QualitySettings.vSyncCount to 0 (and making sure it stays at zero during runtime which it does)
- Setting Application.targetFrameRate to a value that's different from the vsync target framerate (and making sure it stays at that during runtime which it does)
- Going into quality settings and setting VSync Count to "Don't Sync"

Strangely enough, it only becomes an issue when the project is built, in the editor it works perfectly.

Quality settings:


Is there anything I'm missing that could be forcing my target framerate?

 

For debugging purposes I had this setup:

Code (CSharp):

1. void Update()
2. {
3.     QualitySettings.vSyncCount = 0;
4.     Application.targetFrameRate = 240;
5.  
6.     Debug.Log(QualitySettings.vSyncCount);
7.     Debug.Log(Application.targetFrameRate);
8. }

(obviously updating this every frame isn't ideal but I was making absolutely sure so I attached this simple script onto an object and let it go crazy - there were no other scripts running that were changing these variables)

 

The issue was tested on 4 separate machines all encountering the same issue, the framerate was calculated via deltaTime and the game is on ExclusiveFullScreen

 

Also worth mentioning the framerate was different on the machines depending on their refresh rates

 

The unity version I'm using is LTS 2020.3.38f1

To simplify the problem I've recreated the bug on an extremely simply scene:

It consists of a cube as the floor that has the "Begin" script attached and the canvas and TMP Text with your FPSMeter script attached (vSyncCount is set to Don't Sync in settings) - I'll attach the scripts just incase. I've done nothing else to the project so it's entirely possible I'm missing something?

Seems to work fine in the editor (but not in the build)

 

I've added the script but unfortunately it couldn't find a definition for the RefreshRate class so I removed it:

 

NVIDIA RTX 2060

 

My settings:

 

Ohhh okay, would this limit fps for all unity games? - Just wondering why I haven't noticed this until now lol

 

It's working! - Thank you, your help was great

Just as a side thing, is there a good way to tell when graphics card settings are overriding application settings during runtime?

 

I see, thanks for all your help