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Limit your FPS on GMod to save the world (And your GPU)

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It is useless to have 300FPS if it is only to wear out your graphic card, to produce heat, to make noise, to increase the electricity bill, to change graphic card (because heat = Wear). In short, it's not ecological!

Why I need to limit the fps on Gmod?


1- You don't like the noise of the fans because you prefer to hear the shrill voices of the players who shout "ADMIIIIIIIIIIIiiiIIiINN".
2- You want to save your graphics card because every summer you burn one, instead of buying steam games during the sales you buy a graphics card.
3- You want to make an ecological gesture. Less energy consumed means less CO2 in the air.
4- Electricity has increased by 40% 3 times in 9 months. It's time to be careful.
5- You like to play discreetly at Garry's Mod at night but the noise of the fans ruins your plans, so you have to play while blowing on your computer, your parents are behind your door and don't dare to come in because they don't imagine that you are actually playing Gmod.
6- Because it's the apocalypse and you want to play Garry's Mod but your solar panels provide a 24% energy conversion and at 300fps you consume more energy produced. Risking a power cut and losing all your hard earned food in the fridge.

How do you reduce the FPS on Garry's Mod?


Go to the autoexec file found in the cfg folder:
Steam/steamapps/common/GarrysMod/garrysmod/cfg/autoexec.cfg
And add the line: fps_max 30
Reboot Gmod.

Note


You will notice a clear decrease in the temperature of your graphics card and that will make all the difference.

For my part just to create addons I don't need more than 30fps (you can't put less) you can always put a higher value depending on your needs. But 300 fps is really a waste when you don't really play.

You can do whatever you want. Just to say that it exists. And since it's currently very hot everywhere (40°C here)
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