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Vsync on or off?

Dannyboy84

Dannyboy84

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Hi im just wondering if its worth having Vsync on or off in Games? If i understand it correctly it basically stops a game running above the refresh rate of your monitor ie on mine 1920x1080 is 60hz is this right? The only reason i ask is my friend said its best to turn it off and im unsure :confused:

Thanks!
 
If you turn it off, your GPU will render as many frames as possible and in doing so will stress your GPU more and can cause 'tearing' of the images produced if over the refresh rate.
However, you will notice almost no input lag at all compared to having it on.

There are new vsync technologies like adaptive vsync, which solve a lot of lag and performance issues by only syncing the frames over the refresh rate (as such). Clever stuff to be honest, but i think that's only nvidia.

I never use vsync anymore because i hate the lag that it gives to games, the mouse movement feels very unnatural. I now have a 144hz screen so i don't really need to worry about it at all anymore.

Best advice i can give is: Try it for yourself in multiple games and see/feel for yourself.
 
It really is a case of personal preference. I tend to use VSync as I can't stand too much screen tearing, the only exception to this are the games that suffer from (in my opinion) major input lag. I've found Source based games to be the worst culprits for this.

Have a play around with it and see what you think for your self :)
 
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Vsync on, triple buffering enabled either via the game, D3D overrider or RadeonPro and set an fps cap of 58 via msi afterburner.
 
If you have an AMD card use RadeonPro and enable Dynamic Vsync, if you have an Nvidia card use there adaptive vsync.

This gives best performance and no input lag what so ever.

Well I never really get Input lag from Vsync anyway, but I can tell a difference between Dynamic and normal vsync the games just seem more smooth.
If you go with No vsync at all you will render more frames than your monitor can show, giving you horrible screen tear and also running the card very Hot.

Don't just listen to someone saying Turn that off etc give all options a try and find out for yourself.
 
Don't you also get tearing with Vsync on if you have 3 monitors and 1 has a different connector? Eg 2xDP 1xDVI. Thought I read somewhere to avoid tearing they all need to be the same connector type as well as vsync on?
 
a new monitor is on the cards to be honest but this could be a while of yet so for the mean time il check out radeon pro and see how that is. Rusty can u talk me threw OC'ing my card? :D what overclock program to use? GPUtweak or something else?
 
I have it on with my 60hz screen, at least in BF3. I don't get any input lag, but tbh I cant really tell any difference between on or off with my system.
 
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