Game ignores Vynsc / Radeon Chill settings

[Lewri]

I've moved to playing Prison Architect on my desktop and for some reason it was causing my system to run hot.

I've had a look into this and it's completely ignoring settings in my AMD Control Panel.

- I've found the game wants to run at 280-300fps all the time. This is because the game seems to want to use as much of my system as it can. Generally, running at 60fps should be fine.
- I've attempted to turn on Radeon Chill with a limit of 30-60fps and Prison Architect ignores this setting, continues to run as above.
- I've also attempted to forcibly enable Vysnc (with Radeon Chill off), which should limit the frame rate to 165Hz, however the game also ignores this.

I'm not entirely sure why it is ignoring the AMD settings at all.

PC Specification:
Windows 10 21H2 x64
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
AMD RX 580 4GB
Monitors are ASUS screens 1080p x2, both on DisplayPort.

Game version: The Slam 1.00 (14/11/22) r10672 B:12
AMD Driver version: 22.11.2 (30/11/22) (stable, latest although the release dates differ)

Debug output attached, though I can't see much of importance there.

Edit 1: Did try safe mode, but the settings are still ignored.

 

[AndrewT]

There's no setting in the game for this of course, but I'm not sure why the AMD utility would have such a problem. I only have nVidia so I can't test it here.

Can you use any other utility for that purpose, such as fraps?

 

[Lewri]

Fraps obviously only gives us a framerate indicator.

Fraps give the framerate (with Radeon Chill enabled 30-60fps) at 180-250fps. In the pause menu it goes up to 330, which isn't surprising.

So all I can do for Fraps is confirm that the frame rate is not being capped as requested.

 

[AndrewT]

Oh really? I thought it allowed you to restrict it too, sorry if that's not so. I was working off memories from years ago TBH!

I would assume then there are other utilities out there that can do that though ...

 

[Lewri]

So this one appears to work, though it also seems to make the rest of my system quite unhappy:

Guru3D RTSS Rivatuner Statistics Server Download 7.3.6 Final

Here you can download RTSS Rivatuner Statistics Server. This is the official homepage for Rivatuner. Initially designed as a small helper application for RivaTuner graphics card utility, RivaTuner Statistics Server became de-facto framerate monitoring, On-Screen Display and high-performance...

www.guru3d.com

Though my game just updated today, and when launched now refuses to allow AMD's overlay to load (pressing Alt+R or launching from start) when running fullscreen - though admittedly likely a separate issue.

Edit: Hotfix from today didn't fix the above ^ Likely needs a separate report so I'll do that