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One of the first things we discovered when we began testing the PC version of Dead Rising 3 this week is that the Capcom game ships with a 30 frames-per-second cap that cannot be adjusted within the options screen. Instead, in order to unlock higher frame-rates you need to generate your own custom user.ini file and put it in the game's installation directory. And not only that, but the game defaults to 720p resolution, so you have to dig deep into the options to access higher pixel-counts."The game is capped at 30fps," Capcom told us. "However, if you would like to experiment with that, create a user.ini file which contains a single line: 'gmpcr_unlock_frame_rate=True' (no quotes) and place it in the same folder as deadrising3.exe before running the game." If you're not sure how to make a user.ini file, here's one we made earlier. However, an unlocked frame-rate isn't the developer's preferred option, with Capcom suggesting that the game has been optimised for 30fps, warning that unlocking the frame-rate is done at the user's discretion and that performance is not guaranteed.
We tested the unlock and there doesn't appear to be any artificial limitation on performance. Animations work fine, physics operate exactly as they should at the higher frame-rate, and gameplay doesn't suffer in any way. However, the game does have frame-pacing issues with a 30fps lock, and we had to use Nvidia's half-rate refresh GPU control panel option, in combination with the frame-rate lock in Riva Tuner Statistics Server (a part of MSI Afterburner), to fix that as well.
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