Why vsync is bad

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Low fps rtx ti. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Search Join Now Login. Sort By. Notification Preferences. Forum Actions. Report Post. Not me. I have the gigabyte gtx oc edition and a single card runs great. I get low gpu usage and a avg of 50 fps in multiplayer. All three games you've mentioned are very taxing, therefore the behavior you've experienced is typical. Without vsync enabled, you're going to see large framerate dips that cause stuttering.

For example, you may be running at fps one moment, but then you'll drop to fps the next. Most people will definitely feel a stutter when the framerate dips like that. On the other hand, when vsync is enabled you're not going to experience these large fps drops your card can maintain 60 fps for the most part , therefore the stuttering is not going to be nearly as bad.

It'd be different if you were running at fps with dips to fps, but I seriously doubt you're hitting those numbers considering how taxing these game are. Ok, that makes sense, but how does that explain the fact that the games run smoother in windowed mode. If I play the same scene in Crysis Warhead one of the underground levels, where my frame rates are in excess of , and using a controller, if I turn degrees, the game is noticeably smoother in windowed mode versus full screen mode.

In full screen mode, as I'm turning degrees my frame rates are above , the game is choppy. If turn degrees in windowed mode, it's super smooth. Perhaps it's just Crysis? Hard Reset and Serious Sam 3, for example, my frame rates are super smooth with vsync off. No stutters from what I can tell. I'm not sure exactly what's going on there. It could be a driver bug, but maybe not.

Windowed mode usually comes with a performance hit. Your max framerate may be reduced when running these games in windowed mode, therefore the fps drops aren't as pronounced. Have you monitored your framerate closely in both scenarios? Imagine an old-time movie reel; practically anything with a screen works in a similar way. The one major difference is, instead of a bulky reel of images, now we have digitalized data. FPS has a direct relation to how smooth a movie or game will look, but all screens have a maximum amount of frames they can effectively display.

Say you have a system capable of rendering a game at FPS but you have a 60Hz monitor. Problems like these can be a really annoying depending on how bad they are. VSync eliminates issues like screen tearing and jittering by limiting the FPS your system can produce to match the refresh rate of your monitor.

VSync can be really helpful when your PC is capable of rendering way more FPS than your monitor is capable of displaying. The graphical artifacts caused by an excessive amount of frames per second can often be just as bad as having too few. Nothing is perfect, and neither is VSync.

However, beyond that, both AMD and Nvidia have their own proprietary sync techs that work similarly to VSync — usually better. This helps to eliminate the large performance hit caused by VSync.

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