Editing Demonlist (Pointercrate) (section)

===FPS bypass===
The invention of the mod FPS bypass, which allowed users to play at any frame rate (during Update 2.1, where on vanilla, higher frame rates than 60 were only achievable by having a high refresh-rate monitor and using VSync), sparked a three-year controversy in which players debated whether the tool should be considered illegitimate. Some time before it was allowed on the Demonlist, the player PoweredByPie created a method to trick the game into thinking a player was using a higher refresh rate, allowing higher frame rates with VSync. This method was known as 'piepass'. However, despite technically still allowing behaviour not possible in vanilla (specifically, eliminating the need for VSync increased precision, as VSync adds an extra frame of delay), FPS bypass was deemed visually indistinguishable. 

The Demonlist's guideline against FPS bypass was finally lifted on 25 November 2020, permitting its use up to and including 300FPS. On 11 April 2021, the maximum allowed frame rate was increased from 300 to 360, and it remained at 360 for the rest of Update 2.1. The cap on FPS was due to a variety of factors, including that it was not too unreasonable for players to be able to run, 360Hz monitors started being sold to consumers, and because 360FPS was a friendly value on many common refresh rates (i.e, 360 is evenly divisible by 60, 120, and 180).

Unlike Update 2.1, Update 2.2 locked the physics rate to 240TPS, rather than a physics rate which scaled with the frame rate (specifically, 4 physics calculations per frame on Update 2.1), and includes its own version of an FPS unlocker, so for any record achieved in Update 2.2, any FPS is permitted.