It really depends on the game and viewer experience.
Some game engines are worse than others when it comes to tearing. And on the other hand if you just went from 60Hz 4ms to 144Hz 1ms you could be so overwhelmed that you maybe don't even notice the tearing anymore at first.
Ever since I got this monitor I check the OSD when I notice tearing to check if freesync is off again.
Maybe there are so few people complaining about flickering because they think freesync just works even when the monitor turned it off.
OK, this is puzzling:
where in the monitor's OSD (which I assume you're referring to) is the 'enable freesync' option?
I've never seen it - and it's not shown in the manual where it takes you through the settings / options (although it's not a very good manual, for sure).
the only place I'm aware of where you can formally turn freesync 'on' or 'off' is in the AMD driver.
I'd be grateful if you could clarify this, please, Humbug?
* also, your mentioning 'tearing' means, I think, that people aren't understanding the ramifications of what I've been trying to get across: when I've been turning 'freesync' 'on' and 'off' in the AMD driver, V-sync is still 'on' in the games I've been testing.
So, there's no tearing - but neither is there any of the 'stutter', or 'jerkiness', (or at least, it's not pronounced) that you'd expect when going below the v-sync hz rate etc.
As mentioned, using the Windmill demo, of course one can clearly see the difference when turning freesync 'off' or 'on' (but leaving v-sync 'on') using the button within the demo interface itself - particularly with the red bar 'test' - but I'm not seeing this obvious difference in-game - it's pretty subtle if there at all. Could just be the two games I've been able to test with, as you suggest.
But higher up in the thread, I also mentioned the same situation using a 270 with the Witcher 3 ... and nominally the 270 doesn't support freesync at all!
