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Your Fast-Sync experience

razorpakk

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I'm having difficulty finding user experiences with Fast Sync, let's share our findings.

So far I've been using it with Dying Light with the rig in the signature (so 1440p/60Hz) and it's a vast improvement over V-Sync: I do notice frame skipping every 30 seconds or so, but it's a good trade-off for the much improved responsiveness.
Dying Light without V-Sync would probably run between 70 and 100 FPS, but Fast Sync is still doing a great job.

So is it really only beneficial at very high FPS? Because for what I'm experiencing it's just "always" better than V-Sync.
 
As far as i am aware Tom did mention it would be available for other gens too
..but it seems nvidia are going to lock it to pascal within the driver and call it a pascal feature ....(Nvidia milking process)

However and i have not tried yet you can run nvidia inspector with the latest nvidia drive select this

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And will give you fast sync within NCP should come up as custom under vertical sync

so fast sync for other gens ...

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as anybody tried this yet ?
 
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I'm getting a 1070 today so will try fast sync at some point and post my findings here. I will be limited by my CPU though, being an i5 3570k @ 3.8, so will need to OC it properly to get some benefit from fast sync.
 
harney said:
As far as i am aware Tom did mention it would be available for other gens too
..but it seems nvidia are going to lock it to pascal within the driver and call it a pascal feature ....(Nvidia milking process)

However and i have not tried yet you can run nvidia inspector with the latest nvidia drive select this

Clipboard02.jpg


And will give you fast sync within NCP should come up as custom under vertical sync

so fast sync for other gens ...

Goto time 2.40




as anybody tried this yet ?
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Just followed the process, will test in a mo.
 
Seems to be doing something in BF4 for me with the 780 - its mostly running at the monitor Hz (144Hz G-Sync) but every now and again the framerate is blipping over the refresh rate while not showing tearing, etc. which suggests it is working assuming those buffered frames are actually being utilised which I can't tell.

EDIT: Tried pulling the monitor down to 60Hz and again blipping above the refresh rate (more so than at 144Hz) without tearing but something is a bit broken and its stuttering a lot.
 
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Had a quick shot with GTA V using my 1070 - usually play with half V-Sync (60hz 1080p television). Seems quite promising, didn't experience any screen tearing and performance was quite noticeably better at 1440p DSR which doesn't seem to work well with V-Sync in my experience.

A couple of instances of very slight stuttering but nothing awful. Keen to see how it goes with Far Cry 4 which I have found performs terribly with v sync.
 
I didn't notice any stutter in limited testing at 144Hz while rendering reasonably high framerates but something wasn't right at all at 60Hz. I'm using development drivers and a Kepler card though so not exactly a supported configuration.
 
seen it a few times goes over 100 fps on a 1080 and acer x34..

fastsync seems to work perfect with OW tho!
 
I gave Fast-sync a quick test in CS:GO, seems to work quite well. No tearing or stutter although I didn't test it for long. But it feels smoother when only using G-Sync, and I didn't notice any input lag with either (this is at 144 Hz).
 
Phil87 said:
I gave Fast-sync a quick test in CS:GO, seems to work quite well. No tearing or stutter although I didn't test it for long. But it feels smoother when only using G-Sync, and I didn't notice any input lag with either (this is at 144 Hz).
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I have a GTX 1080 with a 144 Hz G-Sync monitor. I can't see any point in running Fast-sync or I am I missing something :confused:
 
On my 980ti in wow IN 3D. Works fantastic!!!!fps in wow is all over the place i go from 30 to 150 this fast sync is god send for me!! Finally no tearing. Iw just set fps limit to 120 with 67hz on monitor. Its Perfect!!!
 
LackyT said:
I have a GTX 1080 with a 144 Hz G-Sync monitor. I can't see any point in running Fast-sync or I am I missing something :confused:
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G-Sync is for frame rates below 144hz
Fast-Sync is for frame rates above 144hz

Usually people have G-Sync + Vsync to cap at 144 fps, however with fast sync it allows it to go over uncapped without having tearing.
 
i thought fast sync works only when your fps is over 3 times superior to the monitor's refresh rate, lower than that you get latency input just like Vsync/double/tripple buffering
i dont wanna say placebo effect :D, but you guys might wanna monitor latency to have a feeling if it works or not by comparing it to vsync.
 
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