Why is the engine frame-rate limited?

[bblaze]

One would hope that, with an attitude like yours, you'd actually have read up on the subject to back said attitude up.

MulleDK19 is right and I recommend the following three links for you to read; Wikipedia is actually usable for most articles of this kind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_synchronization or http://www.tweakguides.com/Graphics_9.html for more detail
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refresh_rat...r_displays
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_rate#...ideo_games