FPS Caps and Refresh Rates

[2Xtreme21]

I was talking to people while playing CS:S today about our FPS (naturally). Many people expressed that they have FPS of above 150. While I believe some of them are most likely lying, I don't see how that many of them could be. With that said, I can only get a max FPS of 85 (with all the fps_max tweak crap things) because my monitor is set to 85Hz refresh rate. I don't see how other people's cards are capable of surpassing their refresh rates while mine seems to determine my FPS caps.

(Not just in CS:S, mind you. World of Warcraft does the same thing as well as Condition Zero.)

 

[ponyo]

Cap is only present if Vsync is on. If you turn Vsync off, there is no cap unless the game engine has one.