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Solution to all people who hate screen tearing and vsync input lag. No Gsync required!

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I feel this needs to be shared :) I'm slowly converting from console gaming to pc (testing games on my somehow gaming laptop) before buying a high end pc and selling ps4. I did quite a lot of research and tested quite a few games and I believe this should be and option in all pc games. That is frame rate limiter and vsync. By using nvidia inspector to set frame rate limiter at 58fps or 60fps and enabling vsync I get rid of all screen tearing as well as input lag is pretty much non existent. I depends on what games you play but I've tried BF4, Bad company 2, Mafia 2, Bioshock, COD Black ops and all work great with slightly different configurations. For example 58fps limiter vsynch enabled, fps limiter set 60fps and vsync disabled etc. So as long as your rig runs above 60fps you are all good. I know what input lag feels like and hate it to bits but with this configs it does not happen - even in nvidia inspector it says (58fps - might improve input lag) and it does. I'm yet to find a game that does not work one way or another, I tried with keyboard and mouse as well as wifi 360 controller and its awesome. Hope this helps some new pc gamers :) best regards

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For BF4 you can do that ingame via console using:

 

GameTime.MaxVariableFPS 60

 

But I must say this is interesting but I have never experienced really noticeable input lag using vsync.

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For BF4 you can do that ingame via console using:

 

GameTime.MaxVariableFPS 60

 

But I must say this is interesting but I have never experienced really noticeable input lag using vsync.

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Yeah it still gives input lag in my experience...

Is it the same or less with vsync enabled and frame rate limiter ? 

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Is it the same or less with vsync enabled and frame rate limiter ? 

Same.

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Same.

 

So how come I can get any game to work like that ? I've tested on my laptop and hdmi TV, are you using nvidia card - not sure if that matters but just wondering...

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So how come I can get any game to work like that ? I've tested on my laptop and hdmi TV, are you using nvidia card - not sure if that matters but just wondering...

I had an Nvidia card and tried this out from another forum. Maybe it's just how sensitive I am to these kinds of things but any amount of stuttering irks me and I notice it.

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You still get vsync/input latency, because you don't fundementally change how graphics cards operate under a locked framerate, you're only halting the output.

It will still try to render a new frame for the framebuffer, but gets put in a waiting state to let the monitor finish scanning the framebuffer. And if the game progresses quickly during that phase, you also get a less-than-subtle motion progression. I believe you when you think locked 60fps is fluent playback, but look at a gsync monitor once and you'll know it isn't.

 

If it were this simple, Nvidia wouldn't have spent piles of money on G-sync.

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You still get vsync/input latency, because you don't fundementally change how graphics cards operate under a locked framerate, you're only halting the output.

It will still try to render a new frame for the framebuffer, but gets put in a waiting state to let the monitor finish scanning the framebuffer. And if the game progresses quickly during that phase, you also get a less-than-subtle motion progression. I believe you when you think locked 60fps is fluent playback, but look at a gsync monitor once and you'll know it isn't.

 

If it were this simple, Nvidia wouldn't have spent piles of money on G-sync.

 

Yea, true true. I can see a slight difference vsync / no vsync at 60fps, but then again for someone who plays with a controller on big tv its still better than 30fps locked on consoles. I don't see TV gsync happening in near future so from my point of view thats the best way to go

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The only issue I have is with AC black flag. Without vsync it has HORRIBLE screen tearing - which I can't stand. But with vsync it jumps back and forth between 30 and 60 as you move around - which is just as annoying because it's constantly going from smooth to choppy, smooth, choppy. Really frustrating...

 

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