G-Sync fix's one issue, but comes with a new one....

[RobHague]

Flicker. That horrible horrible flicker. I am trying to decide whats worse, tearing or flicker.....

It's fine normally, but if the game decides to run a menu or for some reason drops the FPS down (like in Shadow of Mordor, the FPS starts off at <30 I presume at the start of a game load) the flicker can be rather obnoxious. I feel a bit like NVIDIA pulled a fast one on me, being all like "Come on in! The new adaptive v-sync is lovely..." then when I do they are like "but watch out for that low refresh rate, lol".

It's poop in the swimming pool

Is this really what we have to put up with?

 

[RobHague]

It happens during loading screens. Also I just started playing South Park: Stick of Truth and noticed a flicker occuring in that at times.

I have the ROG SWIFT btw. So its probably why I have slightly higher expectations XD but in Shadow of Mordor, sometimes the flicker can be pretty bad. It could be related to my setup I guess, I am running SLI and I know Shadow of Mordor does not support that properly yet (I think).

 

[RobHague]

I've not seen any flicker running gsync either. Then again, I haven't gone below 30fps in any games.

Even with gsync, I consider anything less than 40 fps bad news anyway. It's also pretty well documented that gsync works 'best' at about 40fps and above.

Really **** framerates are still **** regardless of gsync. It's not a fix all for a poorly coded game, or a weak system.

Well its certainly not a weak system, have an X99 based, 16GB DDR4 + 970's in SLI. The flicker issue isnt unique to myself, if you type in G-Sync and Flicker you'll get other people noticing the same.

From what I've understood, G-Sync should basically just minimize the need for re-drawing or re-using "old" frames (which can in some cases cause tearing) by delaying the refresh cycle until there's a new frame completely calculated. I don't see any reason why G-Sync would introduce flicker...?

Or are you using the G-Sync with 3D? Or do you have Lightboost (or similar backlight strobe/scanning feature) enabled? I could understand how those two might bring trouble with G-Sync, when combined with low FPS.

Nope. You can't use Lightboost at the same time. Also no, G-Sync just sets the screen refresh rate to the FPS.