How to a limit FPS in games?

I recently bought a Asus ROG laptop with a nvidia 960m 2gb vram and so far I am quite satisfied with the gaming performance. I do have a concern/complaint while I play games and that is the heat. CPUID temp software reads about 65-80c on average for the CPU and GPU while gaming. Right now I play Shadow Warriors and it kicks up the afterburners of the fans and the heat can be felt from chassis close to the vents. I know that it is normal temps but I find it a little too much for me.

Anyway, I am getting around 120 FPS according to steam on medium settings with a few extras such as reflections and AA turned off to be more conservative to my laptops life span. I could go max settings and have more than 80 FPS easily but I feel that it is generating too much stress and heat. I noticed that when I play with battery power, the FPS is capped at 30, which to me still looks great and the laptop runs and has chilly temps of 30-40c like it were on around idle, even with the GPU activated.

How do I achieve this with A/C cord plugged in? This game is too demanding for the intel HD 530 graphics on medium settings. I tried fiddling with intel power settings and a few of nvidia graphics setting also with no luck.

 

You shouldn't worry too much about temps like that. Laptop components are meant to run hot, with many not even throttling until around 100C. Granted 90C isn't particularly great to target, but it isn't even particularly harmful. Keeping temps down to 40C and having 30fps isn't what that PC is for, that's just not even utilizing it. I'm all for low temps, but you shouldn't be worrying about it so much. My laptop ran with the cpu at 90C and gpu at 90C for a year with nothing to show for it. Would it probably die a little sooner than other cards? Probably... But it would still be down the line, years away when the card is obsolete. Nvidia on their own website gives the maximum operating tempurature of a 960m 98C. That's way above what your hitting. The heat your feeling coming out of the vents is a good thing, that means the cooling is working. Your laptop is behaving normal, crank those settings and enjoy the experience. Even if by some weird fluke your graphics card should fail, it won't be because your temps hit 80C, the card is meant for it. My desktop cards hit 80C all the time, and its not much cause for concern.

 

You can use Riva Tuner Statistics Server and cap FPS in any game you like.

I did this for MechWarrior Online because the stupid game menu screen would cause my 880M to run away and overheat. They have since fixed it.

 

RTSS is the best but easier one is nvidia inspector, driver settings, fps limit.

 

MSI afterburner, and turn on v-sync (either in-game setting or nvidia control panel).

also, maybe you could try to repaste your cpu and gpu.

Use something (rivatuner + msi afterburner work great for me) to monitor your in-game temp. Maximum temp at 80 isn't too high. I think average temp is more important.