# PLEASE make the framerate cap 60fps

**URL:** https://forum.makecode.com/t/please-make-the-framerate-cap-60fps/27353
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**Created:** [February 27, 2024, 9:45pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/please-make-the-framerate-cap-60fps/27353 "2024-02-27T21:45:09Z")
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### Author: ![Brainstorm\_Studios](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/brainstorm_studios/32/20476_2.png) [@Brainstorm\_Studios](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Brainstorm_Studios)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2024, 9:45pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/please-make-the-framerate-cap-60fps/27353/1 "2024-02-27T21:45:09Z")

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please, for the love of everything, raise the FPS cap to 60. i am so, SO tired of landing on impact blocks im supposed to be able to crash through with a ground pound in my game, please raise the fps cap in the engine so we dont have to work around the low framerate.

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### Author: ![Luke](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/luke/32/32519_2.png) [@Luke](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Luke)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2024, 2:39am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/please-make-the-framerate-cap-60fps/27353/2 "2024-02-28T02:39:08Z")

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![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/makecode/original/2X/7/716ede846bfd476a463bcf1fe1344364ae25878b.png)  
From card delver  
Using stats extension: [https://github.com/UnsignedArduino/Stats](https://github.com/UnsignedArduino/Stats)

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### Author: ![\_jupiter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/_jupiter/32/28012_2.png) [@\_jupiter](https://forum.makecode.com/u/_jupiter)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2024, 10:50pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/please-make-the-framerate-cap-60fps/27353/3 "2024-02-28T22:50:35Z")

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you can just do that with the menu you know.

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### Author: ![UnsignedArduino](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/unsignedarduino/32/592_2.png) [@UnsignedArduino](https://forum.makecode.com/u/UnsignedArduino)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2024, 10:53pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/please-make-the-framerate-cap-60fps/27353/4 "2024-02-28T22:53:22Z")

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> [@Brainstorm\_Studios](#):
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> raise the FPS cap to 60.

What’s the FPS of your game? I don’t see why doubling the number of updates per second could help with that.

Sometimes you can use the [pxt-deltatime](https://awesome-arcade.vercel.app/extensions?q=delta#kiwiphoenix364/pxt-deltatime) extension by @Kiwiphoenix364 to help with keeping physics consistent across varying FPS.

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@Luke The FPS shown in the simulator is fake - the Arcade screen isn’t updating 121 times a second and it’s not running `on game update`s 121 times a second. The screen and `on game update`s and stuff only happen up to 30 times a second, but since your frame times are so low, it could theoretically reach 121 FPS!

(last I checked it was like this at least)

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Also, you don’t need the stats extension to show the FPS, you can press the Menu button (if you haven’t overridden it) or open the system menu (which can be called with a JS function I forgot long ago) and show stats will do the same thing! (This is a built-in function of Arcade - on hardware, it uses the extra 8 pixels at the bottom of the 160x128 px screen for this!) Although using my extension makes it much more convenient as you can set the stats to always show up - very helpful for debugging and improving perf!

Because debugging performance is _always fun_. ✨

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### Author: ![Luke](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/luke/32/32519_2.png) [@Luke](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Luke)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2024, 6:33pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/please-make-the-framerate-cap-60fps/27353/5 "2024-02-29T18:33:44Z")

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Oops my bad lol  
Also what’s the best way to increase performance?  
For me I just try to limit number of sprites at a given time but idk if there are any other things that would significantly increase performance.

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### Author: ![UnsignedArduino](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/unsignedarduino/32/592_2.png) [@UnsignedArduino](https://forum.makecode.com/u/UnsignedArduino)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2024, 11:31pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/please-make-the-framerate-cap-60fps/27353/6 "2024-02-29T23:31:58Z")

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Reducing sprites, as many sprites have ghost to reduce collision checks, on game updates run fast are some general recommendations.
