Moving from Windows to Linux – How to Limit Game FPS in Steam

The old adage “How do you know somebody is a Linux user? Because they’ll tell you” is about to hold up true.

This is a bit of an odd one for this blog as I tend to limit it to more business-related topics, but I found a lack of proper guides on how to do this and I like to game in my spare time, which on Linux can be a bit more of an involved process.

I’ll cover playing Windows games on Linux in a future article, but I wanted to specifically cover how to limit any games FPS to a defined value. Which I’ve found to be very helpful recently where I wanted to run a game in windowed mode (It’s odd but playing the latest Lego Star Wars stutters horribly unless it’s in windowed mode) but found it was running at several hundred frames per second unnecessarily.

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