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Can you REALLY use a GeForce card with a FreeSync monitor? How does that affect your games? And can it go the other way…?

 

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@GabenJr @LinusTech 

When RTX-supporting games come out, you could try this with those (and RTX cards), because from the leaked benchmarks it seems super demanding and with the AMD GPU way (RX550 or something), you could probably get cheaper FreeSync monitor (or samsung qled TV) so the under 60fps dips wouldn't look like ass.

 

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I wonder if you can make it so you need to add every app you want to run into the "max performance" thing on the windows panel 

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it's not working for me. all i see is this:

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and i definitely have an nvidia card installed too.

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(the amd card is an R9 290X)

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What are the oldest cards that support freesync? Is it the 200 series and up?

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Just now, firelighter487 said:

it's not working for me. all i see is this:

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and i definetely have an nvidia card installed too.

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(the amd card is an R9 290X)

Have you plugged the monitor in to the AMD card?

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1 minute ago, Kumra said:

Have you plugged the monitor in to the AMD card?

yes.

what i'm trying to do is play Overwatch on the 780Ti. that game has weird issues with my 290X for some reason...

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25 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

yes.

what i'm trying to do is play Overwatch on the 780Ti. that game has weird issues with my 290X for some reason...

Maybe the more recent nvidia drivers have blocked this now? Have you updated recently?

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8 minutes ago, Kumra said:

Maybe the more recent nvidia drivers have blocked this now? Have you updated recently?

i'm running the latest drivers.

 

interestingly if i plug one of the displays into my 780Ti that screen now only lists my 780Ti. for both power saving and high performance.

what version of the drivers should i try?

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21 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

i'm running the latest drivers.

 

interestingly if i plug one of the displays into my 780Ti that screen now only lists my 780Ti. for both power saving and high performance.

what version of the drivers should i try?

Unsure to be honest, but just try one from a couple of months ago at least.

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31 minutes ago, Kumra said:

Maybe the more recent nvidia drivers have blocked this now? Have you updated recently?

i've rolled it back to 388.13, still same problem.

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1 minute ago, Kumra said:

Unsure to be honest, but just try one from a couple of months ago at least.

the driver i have now is from 2017 according to task manager...

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Perhaps try using DIsplay Driver Uninstaller to remove all traces of old drivers and re-install? Or maybe you need an older AMD driver. Other than that im out of ideas. I don't have a new enough AMD Card to try for myself.

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Sorry to ruin the fun for everybody but this only works if you have an amd apu and an nvidia gpu. The reason is that all pci-e gpus show up in windows as high-performance (as of now). So you could have an RX460 and a Titan V but they both show up as high performance, windows is not power consumption aware so it assumes everything that isn't cpu-integrated is an high performance card. I'm assuming Linus did this video on the amd apu because he couldn't get it to work without using looking glass. 

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15 minutes ago, Kumra said:

Perhaps try using DIsplay Driver Uninstaller to remove all traces of old drivers and re-install? Or maybe you need an older AMD driver. Other than that im out of ideas. I don't have a new enough AMD Card to try for myself.

too much trouble really. if it was that complicated LTT would have mentioned it.

 

also i think i completely broke everthing, everytime i try to launch Overwatch it crashes immediately.

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I tried it with RX580 and GTX1070, and there does not seem to be a way assigning the RX580 as the power savings card.  In addition, if there is no monitor plugged into Nvidia card, the NVControl panel reports an error and will not launch.  With the on-board Intel graphics you could get the Nvidia card to work (no freesync), but yeah why? 

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Tried it with an AMD Vega64 and Nvidia 1080; whatever GPU the monitor is plugged into is the GPU that shows up in the windows settings, for both power-saving and high-performance :C ... bummer... 

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21 minutes ago, kevnician said:

I tried it with RX580 and GTX1070, and there does not seem to be a way assigning the RX580 as the power savings card.  In addition, if there is no monitor plugged into Nvidia card, the NVControl panel reports an error and will not launch.  With the on-board Intel graphics you could get the Nvidia card to work (no freesync), but yeah why? 

If intel gpus supported freesync it would work.

 

Linus has been misleading in this video and there is no way he didn't know it wouldn't work with mixed dedicated gpus. Every article that has come out regarding this trick has mentioned this since it's the first thing people actually try.

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1 hour ago, firelighter487 said:

it's not working for me. all i see is this:

image.png.c83387c17445ce3c1d9742539d76de70.png

 

and i definitely have an nvidia card installed too.

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(the amd card is an R9 290X)

I looked online as I have a 480 and a 1080ti. It only works with a APU

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Surprised you didn't mention that nvidia already uses free-syncs in their laptops, and it was possible at one point(Wendell did it once I think) To try the nvidia GPU into thinking the free-sync display was a "Mobile G-sync" display

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Anyone notice the audio was noticeably out of sync with the video?

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