Bug #990

FPS Limit Bypass When Pause Menu is Active

Status:	Open
Priority:	Medium
Added by:	ottergauze on January 1, '26
Assigned to:	Unassigned
Due date:
Reported for:	S05.11 Auto

Steps to Reproduce

1. Launch Game
2. Apply FPS limit in-game
3. Monitor GPU usage
4. Pause game
5. Monitor GPU usage

Explanation

I can't be sure this applies natively on Windows, but when playing the game and using the FPS limit feature in-game, the FPS limit doesn't appear to apply when the pause menu is up, causing a significant spike in GPU performance and temperatures.

At any rate, if it's Linux specific, it may be worth considering for Steam Deck players.

Proton version used is GE-Proton10-26

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Computer Information:
Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Model: A320M-S2H-CF
Form Factor: Desktop
No Touch Input Detected
Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: AuthenticAMD
CPU Brand: AMD Ryzen 5 5500
CPU Family: 0x19
CPU Model: 0x50
CPU Stepping: 0x0
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 3600 MHz
12 logical processors
6 physical processors
Hyper-threading: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Supported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Supported
AVX: Supported
AVX2: Supported
AVX512F: Unsupported
AVX512PF: Unsupported
AVX512ER: Unsupported
AVX512CD: Unsupported
AVX512VNNI: Unsupported
SHA: Supported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Unsupported
BMI1: Supported
BMI2: Supported
F16C: Supported
FMA: Supported
Operating System:
"CachyOS" (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 6.18.2-1-cachyos
X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server Release: 12401009
X Window Manager: KWin
Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime_1.0.20251202.187498
Client Information:
Version: 1766451605
Browser GPU Acceleration Status: Enabled
Browser Canvas: Enabled
Browser Canvas out-of-process rasterization: Enabled
Browser Direct Rendering Display Compositor: Disabled
Browser Compositing: Enabled
Browser Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
Browser OpenGL: Enabled
Browser Rasterization: Enabled
Browser Raw Draw: Disabled
Browser Skia Graphite: Disabled
Browser Video Decode: Enabled
Browser Video Encode: Disabled
Browser Vulkan: Disabled
Browser WebGL: Enabled
Browser WebGL2: Enabled
Browser WebGPU: Disabled
Browser WebNN: Disabled
Video Card:
Driver: AMD AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT (radeonsi, navi10, LLVM 21.1.6, DRM 3.64, 6.18.2-1-cachyos)
Driver Version: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 25.3.2-arch1.1
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz
VendorID: 0x1002
DeviceID: 0x731f
Revision Not Detected
Number of Monitors: 2
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1200
Desktop Resolution: 3840 x 1200
Primary Display Size: 20.39" x 12.76" (24.02" diag), 51.8cm x 32.4cm (61.0cm diag)
Primary VRAM: 8192 MB
Sound card:
Audio device: USB Mixer
Memory:
RAM: 15852 Mb
VR Hardware:
VR Headset: None detected
No VR configuration with trackers detected
Most number of trackers in a session: 0
Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_GB.UTF-8
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 951803 MB
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 418512 MB
Storage:
Number of SSDs: 4
SSD sizes: 1024G,1000G,63G,0B
Number of HDDs: 0
Number of removable drives: 0

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