60hz monitors and frame tearing advice

[PESolution]

Hi all,

I recently helped a friend get into PC gaming on a budget, and as a result he has a cheaper 'gaming' monitor which although has 1ms response time, only is 60hz with no freesync / gsync.

I've always had high refresh rate monitors / G-sync and so have never had problems with tearing in the past.

The first game we tried was Doom, and with a constant 100+fps the tearing was horrible. With V-sync on the input lag was also horrible.

Perhaps I've been spoilt in the past with high refresh rate monitors and G-Sync etc, but I don't ever recall seeing frame tearing as bad as we experienced on doom with his setup.

Is this game particularly bad for tearing, or is there anything I can do to mitigate either the tearing with v-sync off, or the input lag with v-sync on?

One last query is does having borderless windowed mode / fullscreen have any bearing on tearing?

Thanks for your advice in advance,

Pes x

 

[PESolution]

You didn't say whether it was an Nvidia card, but there are workarounds if you have one. Can't comment on AMD.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/4jsj9j/so_what_is_the_difference_between_fast_sync_and/

It is a GTX1060.

I've just read elsewhere that Vulkan apparently helps - and some comments about triple buffering but I'm not really clear on what that does.

Thanks

 

[PESolution]

Overclock it to 75hz might make it a little better? what is the monitor?

Thanks - I think I'll look into this - I'm not sure what the monitor is exactly until I go back around my friends house.

To overclock it do I just create a custom resolution in nvidia control panel?

Thanks

 

[PESolution]

This

I looked into this, and from what I read, all it does is enable vsync when lower than screens refresh rate, and disable it when over.. but the thing is that it is over all of the time so surely it be the same tearing as if it was just off?