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Cliff - a couple of things to bear in mind. First, your situation is unusual. Most machines don't notice the difference whether Limit is on if they are already maxing out at only 30 fps.
Secondly, it's all about avoiding customer-service calls. Someone whose machine locks up from an overheating video card will call or email Prolific, while someone whose Aquarium is running a few fps slow will not.
The amount of email for our tiny crew to handle is already extremely high. There are a lot of copies of the Aquarium out there. A very small percentage actually paid for it, but that doesn't stop the rest from expecting customer support. A conservative estimate might be 20 million copies. If 1 person in 1000 has a machine overheat, that's 20,000 emails.
So that's why we try to default everything not to the position which will make the most people happy, but the fewest people mad. (Hopefully avoiding lynch mobs and other unpleasantness.)
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