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Why does freesync not work sometimes?

SkeeterUK

SkeeterUK

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I find with my AOC Q3279VWFD8 freesync monitor with vega 56 a bit of a useless gimmick because i dont think i really have the benefits of freesync as i dont think it really works.

In x4 foundations, i have to have vsync on in order to get no tearing, if i disable it and in the drivers but keep within the 48 - 75 fps limit i still get tearing, well isnt freesync suppose to make it butter smooth and no tearing? So what gives? Thats a vulkan title tho i dont think api should affect the freesync ability should it.

Also gta sa, its a oldie but ive just been trying it and with a chill fps limit of 50-53 i get tearing with frame limiter off ingame and always off vsync in drivers. Why isnt freesync working. I had to enable vsync to stop the tearing even tho its the same fps limit with chill.

Im sure other games are like this too that i play. As generally ive felt that vsync is having to be on to stop tearing so i just put in the drivers usually always on unless im testing to see if freesync works.

The demo of the windmill seems to show it works but thats about the only place it would. I dont honestly think freesync works unless u have vsync on, which kinda negates the point of the tech tbh.

And yes ive tried all the configs in games vsync off ingame vsync on in drivers, vsync off here vsync on or off there, tried different fps limits, made sure windows is 75hz blah blah.

Is it the drivers? Is it my monitor not doing freesync properly, pff who knows.

How is your experience with freesync? Does it actually work, do you have to have vsync on to not get tearing or can you get smooth tear free gameplay without it and be in the limits of freesync.

Im sure ppl with monitors that can do above 75hz are fine so maybe limit the responses to those suck with 48-75hz monitors if poss.

Even tried cnc thing to get freesync range to 38 which didnt seem to cause any ill effects but i decided nah i rather just have it work as intended so 48-75hz.

Oh, could it just be a bad engine? Some games seem smooth as silk like a modern title like division 2. Forza on xbox pass for pc seems good too. Cant recall if i had vsync on in those tho, probs did.
 
Mine doesnt show the refresh rate on the monitors osd fluctuating it just says freesync on one of the hor or ver lines i think. True i dont test it when in a game but on desktop but im pretty sure it wont be different.

Just checked, yeah in osd for my monitor on extra settings it just shows for h or v forgot which the word freesync, the other says 111 i think. It doesnt show the current hz as a counter in the corner of the screen or anything.
 
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Hmm using enhanced sync but limiting fps with chill to 50-53 ish i did notice in the osd that the H freq wasnt the normal 111 but 89 which is 22 down so 75 down 22 would be about 53. This seemed to work in x4 foundations. I just tried enhanced sync with no vsync ingame for gta iv but i get tearing and hor freq was 111 not 89 like before so im not sure why that is. Maybe cos of the launcher? I also think it might be cos i disabled full screen optimizations so there true fullscreen, who knows. Now i want to test with enhanced sync and limiting fps in chill to see if monitor says 89 again in other games. As i think that means freesync is then working.

Why i have to do all this instead of just a on off switch which drivers have but doesnt seem to work, i dunno. No one said vsync or enh sync had to be on as well...
 
I was trying to cap so it doesnt bounce around in chill min and max the same value. Rather needed in gta sa for example as too high fps the physics goes off and not nice to play. Similar with gta 4 to a degree. I think 50 was a good value, didnt do any capping near 75 as the fps is too high for my needs tbh, i.e no need for quicker fps just stable fps and one that freesync would work with so i picked 50. It stayed there.

Anyhow tried poker night at the inventory 2, the osd hor was at 111 no matter what settings in driver i tried to get freesync working. Tried mass effect 1 too just now, nothing was making the hor hz go down just stuck on 111. Grrr.
 
first things first is to get the monitor to sho me in osd that it can change from 111 on the hor frew, it did once on x4 today but now i cant get it to again grr or other games. Yes i have tried different ranges in chill from 50 to 53 from 50 to 60 and more. Getting sick of testing. But i want to know from others how do get freesync working, what driver settings do you use to get it working per game profile. How do you know freesync works when if ur using vsync or enhanced sync maybe urs doesnt work eith as vsyncs doing its job with tearing fix but freesync isnt doing it just normal vsync is.
 
Just the 1 monitor.

Yes i can use vsync but then freesync isnt working as if say my fps ingame was 65 and i go on my monitor i bet it says hor freq is still 111 so my monitor isnt switching the refresh rate dynamically based on fps.
 
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