My GSYNC experiences

Wizzfizz · 7 May 2014 at 20:17

wrong thread

tayto_0 · 7 May 2014 at 20:24

What thread are you looking for? I may be able to help

Martini1991 · 7 May 2014 at 20:24

Well then, Gsync's quality approved

James J · 8 May 2014 at 16:21

Update

Having watched a few videos and films using gsync, the earlier concerns I had in regards to 24 frame footage is thankfully not an issue. I didn't have any motion or refresh rate issues at all with videos.

I have encountered an issue in regards to world of warcraft. If you try and change the antialiasing mode with gsync enabled, it crashes the game immediately. This is 100% reproducible on my setup and doesn't happen with gsync disabled.

jh30uk · 8 May 2014 at 16:29

Some games will not work as Nvidia states and I assume some will get updates to work.

The PIA issue is the games hardcapped to X FPS though most can be hacked in .ini files.

James J · 8 May 2014 at 16:46

jh30uk said:
Some games will not work as Nvidia states and I assume some will get updates to work.

The PIA issue is the games hardcapped to X FPS though most can be hacked in .ini files.

Gsync works on WOW absolutely fine though. The problem is a crash related to changing graphics settings.

Tute · 8 May 2014 at 17:59

See, I'm very interested in trying something like this... off I go to do some research.

Well, firstly I have to buy an NVidia card - which at the moment means paying quite a premium over the 290/290X for the same performance.

Then you need a supporting monitor - of which there is one - and it's a 24" TN Film screen for £270! I'd struggle to justify that price on an IPS model.

James J · 8 May 2014 at 21:34

Tute said:
See, I'm very interested in trying something like this... off I go to do some research.

Well, firstly I have to buy an NVidia card - which at the moment means paying quite a premium over the 290/290X for the same performance.

Then you need a supporting monitor - of which there is one - and it's a 24" TN Film screen for £270! I'd struggle to justify that price on an IPS model.

You won't be seeing a 144hz 1ms IPS panel anytime soon though.

jh30uk · 8 May 2014 at 21:34

Tute said:
See, I'm very interested in trying something like this... off I go to do some research.

Well, firstly I have to buy an NVidia card - which at the moment means paying quite a premium over the 290/290X for the same performance.

Then you need a supporting monitor - of which there is one - and it's a 24" TN Film screen for £270! I'd struggle to justify that price on an IPS model.

Since when is a single AMD card faster than 780Ti a overall Tute?

The 780Ti is the faster Single GPU card but yes cost may not be worth it to some.

tayto_0 · 8 May 2014 at 21:41

Where did he mention a 780Ti ?

Uncle Petey · 8 May 2014 at 21:42

Or AMD cards being faster than one?

spoffle · 8 May 2014 at 21:46

jh30uk said:
Since when is a single AMD card faster than 780Ti overall Tute?

The Ti is the faster card but yes cost may not be worth it to some.

A 295...

Regardless of its utterly poor value, it's still a faster graphics card.

jh30uk · 8 May 2014 at 21:53

Tute · 8 May 2014 at 21:58

James J said:
You won't be seeing a 144hz 1ms IPS panel anytime soon though.

Gutting, really. As good as GSync sounds, there's no way I could go back to TN.

Jh30uk, there's nothing I said that isn't true. Compared to their AMD counterparts, the NVidia cards are very poor value for money. Now, if you want to buy one, more power to you, but I prefer to get as much performance for my £££ as I can.

jh30uk · 8 May 2014 at 22:03

You did not, you asked a question and got a reply.

I highlighted your post so you can see why I replied with what I did as it had to be that Nvidia GPU none lower and yes £100ish more or so.

Tute · 8 May 2014 at 22:07

The price of the screen is what bothers me the most though, way way more than the price of the cards.

I honestly think £270 for a 24" TN screen is a crime, GSync or not. I really would like this tech to take off, but at that price it's just going to stifle it.

Ian Evey · 8 May 2014 at 22:08

Funny how a 295x2 is now called a single card, the fact it has x2 in the name means times 2 because its a dual gpu card.

jh30uk · 8 May 2014 at 22:10

It is called Trolling Ian.

shankly1985 · 8 May 2014 at 22:14

Ian Evey said:
Funny how a 295x2 is now called a single card, the fact it has x2 in the name means times 2 because its a dual gpu card.

Dual gpu or not it's still a single card.

spoffle · 8 May 2014 at 22:17

Tute said:
The price of the screen is what bothers me the most though, way way more than the price of the cards.

I honestly think £270 for a 24" TN screen is a crime, GSync or not. I really would like this tech to take off, but at that price it's just going to stifle it.

This is unfortunately the issue with stuff nVidia does, they get greedy and slap silly prices on things, because they seemingly can only see for a very short distance. The key to getting people and companies to pick up G-Sync would be to make it cost effective to implement. When they're charging $200 for the board, it makes it cost prohibitive to people, and also annoys some too, because really there isn't anywhere near $200 worth of anything in the hardware, they are just price gouging. I would be surprised if it cost any more than $10 to make. Sure there's R&D costs too, but that shouldn't account for the rest of the cost.

Ian Evey said:
Funny how a 295x2 is now called a single card, the fact it has x2 in the name means times 2 because its a dual gpu card.

So tell me how a 295X2 isn't a single card? It has 2 GPUs, sure, but it's a single card that slots in to a single slot. It isn't 2 cards, it's one. That's what "single card" actually means.

jh30uk said:
It is called Trolling Ian.

You need to educate yourself on what trolling is. Trolling isn't people correcting you when you're wrong.