I am playing on steam and my fps is locked at 45. Doesn't matter whether vsync is on, fullscreen, tate mode, beta, main, doesnt matter my fps is still locked at 45. I can maybe understand locking it at 60 but I can't even get it there. Has anyone figured out a way around this?

Huh, that's really odd. I think there are programs you can use to set framerates for GameMaker games? I'm unsure about how that works though.

The ingame timer is locked to framerate, so 60 consistent would definitely be the benchmark. I'm guessing an inaccurate timer was how you discovered the problem to begin with?