Regarding FPS.

[Frank Rom]

So I had a few issues capping Freelancer Mod down to 60 FPS, till I was told about RiviaTuner (this occurred while using Windows 10).
What happens now after installing Windows 11 is a very stable FPS performance without any 3rd party tools with 60 Frames at all times.

Question here is, how benefic is running Discovery at 144 FPS or higher?
Most older gamers I meet online say that higher than 60 FPS has no benefits for a better gameplay experience, while the majority of players all around tend to "enforce" high frames performance in video games.

I know that Freelancer has more than 2 decades and can run without any issues in most machines, but I was told in the Forums that higher FPS makes a difference (with smooth mouse cursor as an example).
So the question remains - With a 144 Hz screen is it worth to use RiviaTuner to tweak the frames higher than 60?

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[Luke.]

I would absolutely say yes it's worth it. It smooths out the mouse so aiming becomes far less awful through much less lag and also your sense of "speed" will be better felt since it'll cause a visual effect of your ship (this mostly applies to fighter craft) swinging a lot more when you turn. There's a lot more feedback to your mouse movement basically even if it is just superficial.

Just bear in mind you cannot go above 155fps or it'll cause problems. More info on that here.

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[Haste]

Camera acceleration (particularly relevant in fighters) is directly, linearly tied to framerate. At 150 FPS, your camera will "look forward" in the direction you're turning two and a half times faster than at 60 FPS. Even if your monitor's refresh rate is capped at 60HZ (which it likely isn't, in 2025), camera acceleration alone is worth playing at higher framerates.

Obviously, there's general benefits to higher framerates, like improved game responsiveness, mouse accuracy, better reaction times, and so on.

TL;DR: Yes. Play at ~154 or so, or just match your monitor's refresh rate at 144. I don't personally use Rivatuner, d3d8.dll from here along with setting my FPS cap to 154 in the NVIDIA Control Panel does the job fine. You likely need that .dll on modern Windows installations anyways, with or without Rivatuner.

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[Frank Rom]

Thank you both. I did install the .dll file along with the rest of the files in the Mod EXE directory.
And yes I will set it to 144 FPS, not 154.

Thanks,
Frank Rom

EDIT: After installing the files in Discovery folder Gamebar shows GPU usage at 99%. I don't know whats going on.

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The War with Christ and God has begun.

[Haste]

EDIT: After installing the files in Discovery folder Gamebar shows GPU usage at 99%. I don't know whats going on.

Games actually using your GPU is generally a good thing. What kind of GPU do you have, and what framerates are you getting at 100% usage?

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[Frank Rom]

The .dll file is causing this issue. I'm using a AMD RX 7600 XT 16GB, and I'm running at 144 FPS. Not only the GPU goes up to 100% usage but it also changes usage amount alot up and down.
Also when the .dll file is installed, Task Manager doesn't measure GPU usage for Freelancer.

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The War with Christ and God has begun.