Apex Legends FPS Cap: Why You'd Actually Use One

Apex Legends FPS cap sits in the Video tab of Settings, and it's one of the most skipped-past options in the whole menu — mostly because "cap my frame rate" sounds like the opposite of what a competitive player wants.

Why you'd want one anyway

• Frame pacing. A GPU bouncing wildly between frame rates as scenes change can feel less consistent than a locked, lower number. Smoothness sometimes beats raw peak frame rate.
• Heat and fan noise. An uncapped frame rate on a menu screen or in a quiet lobby often runs far higher than in a real fight, burning extra heat and fan noise for nothing.
• Matching your monitor. Running well past your display's refresh rate wastes rendered frames your screen can't show. Capping close to your refresh rate avoids that waste, especially without VSync.

What the options actually are

The selectable values have shifted across updates as Respawn has added higher tiers for high-refresh monitors — the safest approach is to open Settings > Video yourself and pick from what's actually listed on your version of the game, rather than trust a fixed list from an old guide.

The competitive default

Most players still leave it uncapped or set it just above their monitor's refresh rate, reserving a hard cap for laptops managing heat or older GPUs holding a rock-steady frame rate over a spiky higher one.