Does anything go right for anyone else?

spud959 · 25 Sep 2022 at 15:16

With my other monitor failing I just bit the bullet and bought a G27Q as it has good reviews and was reasonable cost. What a load of tosh. It's all blurred and I only play 20 year old quake. In the nvidia panel there is no G-Sync option anymore. I've googled a few different answers but it's still not coming up. I've updated drivers, used the new cable, powered off/on. The Freesync is enabled in the monitor but I'm not sure that's doing anything with my Geforce GTX970 because on or off there seems little difference.

Anyone else had this issue?

Thanks.

Rroff · 25 Sep 2022 at 15:24

You need a 10 series or above GPU and Windows 10 to use G-Sync compatible mode (FreeSync).

spud959 · 25 Sep 2022 at 15:28

That's weird I had G-Sync option on my old monitor with that card or is it because of the new monitor I need a new card as well?

peahead · 26 Sep 2022 at 20:36

GTX 970 does not support Freesync it's a hardware limitation of the card apparently.

List of compatible cards.

Supported NVIDIA GPUs for G-SYNC

These NVIDIA graphics cards support G-SYNC monitors. To learn more about GSYNC, check out G-SYNC 101. Latest NVIDIA GPUs GPU Architecture G-SYNC Support FreeSync Compatible GeForce RTX 3090 Ampere Yes Yes GeForce RTX 3080 Ampere Yes Yes GeForce RTX 3070 Ampere Yes Yes GeForce RTX...

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Your old monitor was a G-Sync monitor with a fast TN panel, did you try changing the overdrive setting on the G27Q ?

SkeeterUK · 26 Sep 2022 at 20:47

If all u play is a old game u dont really need gsync or freesync u can just use vsync or i think fast sync for tearing if its still a thing on nvidia cards.

It's all blurred, could that be you havent set up the max res and refresh rates that ur old monitor used but ur new ones got higher res etc?

Tired9 · 27 Sep 2022 at 01:16

4:3 1024 x768 will do.

Rroff · 27 Sep 2022 at 01:21

spud959 said:
That's weird I had G-Sync option on my old monitor with that card or is it because of the new monitor I need a new card as well?

"G-Sync" using the FPGA in the monitor works with older GPUs but monitors which are just "G-Sync Compatible" using the adaptive sync standard, often marketed as FreeSync require a newer GPU.

A lot of monitor manufacturers are just making their monitors G-Sync Compatible and skipping the dedicated G-Sync hardware to reduce costs and wider compatibility with both nVidia and AMD hardware.