How to Play Hearthstone With 60 or 144 FPS (Frames Per Second) (2024)

Last updated 2years, 5months ago by Fluxflashor

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Hearthstone feeling like it isn't running perfectly smooth anymore? The reason might be due to Patch 23.2 introducing new graphical frame rate modes!

How to Play Hearthstone With 60 or 144 FPS (Frames Per Second) (1)

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    How to Change to 60 FPS

    You're going to want to change your "Frame Rate" setting, which is a new setting in addition to the old "Quality" setting. Here are the values for most players.

    • Low - 30 FPS
    • Medium - 60 FPS
    • High - 60 FPS

    Important Notes

    • Medium and High when on a Laptop on Battery Power will become 30 FPS.
    • We've also seen some cases where Medium is 30 FPS, this seems to fix itself if you switch the option and go back to Medium.
    • Low frame rate will dynamically switch to 60 FPS when you are dragging elements in-game.

    What About 144 FPS? Even More?

    If you've leveled up your game and have a 144hz monitor, or something even better, you'll be happy to know all you need to do is set your Frame Rate setting to "High" to take full advantage of your high refresh rate display.

    • Low - 30 FPS
    • Medium - 60 FPS
    • High - 144 FPS (or the FPS of your monitor).

    Blizzard has special code that checks your monitor's refresh rate so that Hearthstone will always match it when it is set to High.

    Why Doesn't Blizzard Name These Options Better?

    We don't know for certain, but Blizzard has stated over the years that they like to keep the options simple in Hearthstone. Many players may not know what frame rate even means so pushing numbers in their faces may make them confused. Generally speaking though, High is a graphical setting that more players should be accustomed to since it has been in the "Quality" section since the game has launched.

    There's also more complexity involved in changing the High label dynamically based on display resolution for users with high refresh rates, and with the Medium and High settings getting toned down when you're on Battery power on a Touch device, this is something else that can't be as easily conveyed so keeping it to a simple Low, Medium, and High, makes life easier for players.

    Historically Speaking

    In the past, players that wanted Hearthstone to run at 60 FPS could manually edit client files to enable "targetframerate=60". This was especially a pain to do on mobile, and it would typically reset after patches or sometimes after restarting your game, so it's great to see Blizzard has finally leveled the client up and made this more accessible to all players - options are great!

    About the Author

    How to Play Hearthstone With 60 or 144 FPS (Frames Per Second) (2)

    Robert "Fluxflashor" Veitch is the founder of Out of Games. With over a decade of experience in gaming content, and being done with the exhaustion of corporate nonsense, he wanted to do something different with a focus on the community in this online world that tries so hard to just make everyone just another number. Robert is currently playing Path of Exile and World of Warcraft. He can be contacted via direct messagesor onTwitter.

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    Comments

    • How to Play Hearthstone With 60 or 144 FPS (Frames Per Second) (9) Cece 195 31 Posts Joined 09/04/2021

      Posted 2years, 5months ago

      Quote From Author
      • Medium and High when on a Laptop on Battery Power will become 30 FPS.

      Im the only who thinks this is a stupid idea ?

      edit: i mean in some modes like battlegrounds fps are important for quality games becouse animation make alot of difference , in miracle priest is the same , fps matters for how many cards you can play in a turn.

      So i think is better play half games but better games , if one want long battery they can manual set options down , or blizzard can make a checkbox to enable disable battery savings

      -1

      • How to Play Hearthstone With 60 or 144 FPS (Frames Per Second) (10) How to Play Hearthstone With 60 or 144 FPS (Frames Per Second) (11) Fluxflashor CEO 2015 3127 Posts Joined 10/19/2018

        Posted 2years, 5months ago

        I agree, I think it should be on the user to decide if they want to sacrifice their battery juice in exchange for more FPS. I also understand though there is no perfect solution when Blizzard refuses to add proper settings to the game client, and defaulting to saving people battery life is probably the smart thing to do - Windows laptops just run horribly to begin.

    • How to Play Hearthstone With 60 or 144 FPS (Frames Per Second) (12) Mountaineer Bronze Supporter 210 29 Posts Joined 02/21/2022

      Posted 2years, 5months ago

      Thank you for this article; I'm one of those who doesn't completely understand this.

      I noticed my screen flickering & when I checked options, nothing was selected, so I choose high quality & it seems better.

    • How to Play Hearthstone With 60 or 144 FPS (Frames Per Second) (13) How to Play Hearthstone With 60 or 144 FPS (Frames Per Second) (14) Morthasa Eevee 950 59 Posts Joined 05/28/2019

      Posted 2years, 5months ago

      Except I have a 60 Hz monitor, but the game keeps auto-resetting the framerate to "Low". No Medium setting available.

      Not enjoying the brand-new screen tearing effects!

    • How to Play Hearthstone With 60 or 144 FPS (Frames Per Second) (15) Nona Child of the Night 940 258 Posts Joined 05/29/2019

      Posted 2years, 5months ago

      I was wondering why everything looked... odd why playing.

    • How to Play Hearthstone With 60 or 144 FPS (Frames Per Second) (16) shimiq 105 16 Posts Joined 06/03/2019

      Posted 2years, 5months ago

      does it work for everyone on mobile? if I want to click High, it shows the language selection which is just underneath it, hmmm

      • How to Play Hearthstone With 60 or 144 FPS (Frames Per Second) (17) Rawls 205 25 Posts Joined 06/08/2019

        Posted 2years, 5months ago

        Same problem here.

        If you have a variable refresh rate smart phone screen (max 120 Hz) - does that translate to 120 FPS?

        • How to Play Hearthstone With 60 or 144 FPS (Frames Per Second) (18) How to Play Hearthstone With 60 or 144 FPS (Frames Per Second) (19) Fluxflashor CEO 2015 3127 Posts Joined 10/19/2018

          Posted 2years, 5months ago

          This should work but many phones even with a high refresh rate display default to capping your frames to 60, requiring an option change in your settings somewhere.

      • How to Play Hearthstone With 60 or 144 FPS (Frames Per Second) (20) R Design Champion 1000 743 Posts Joined 04/23/2020

        Posted 2years, 5months ago

        as far as I remember, the default on the phone is a maximum of 30 fps and on android this parameter can be edited in the game files.

        I just checked my phone. there is a maximum of 120 fps.

    • How to Play Hearthstone With 60 or 144 FPS (Frames Per Second) (21) How to Play Hearthstone With 60 or 144 FPS (Frames Per Second) (22) Caro Draconic Rager 2225 2538 Posts Joined 03/12/2020

      Posted 2years, 5months ago

      So this must explain why my BG game animations were super slow yesterday...

    • How to Play Hearthstone With 60 or 144 FPS (Frames Per Second) (23) How to Play Hearthstone With 60 or 144 FPS (Frames Per Second) (24) Grumpy000 1880 1159 Posts Joined 06/06/2019

      Posted 2years, 5months ago

      does the speed of animation change with these setting?

      • How to Play Hearthstone With 60 or 144 FPS (Frames Per Second) (25) R Design Champion 1000 743 Posts Joined 04/23/2020

        Posted 2years, 5months ago

        this has nothing to do with the animation speed.

        Frames Per Second. the smoothness of the image on the screen depends on this parameter. that's it.

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