Refreshrates

[flashiling]

So i'm curious.

having a 144Hz monitor

does capping my fps at 144 make it smoother or does it make it worse because of possible latency from capping fps?

[Princess Luna]

If you use V-Sync you'll be synchronizing your fps to your refresh rate resulting in better smoothness.

 

If you use a framerate capper you won't be synchronizing your fps to your refresh rate causing stuttering.

 

Double Buffered V-Sync at 144hz/144fps shouldn't have any true issue regarding latency, but if you have all the hardware you may as well just try yourself.

[flashiling]

i used g-sync but it ended up blackscreening my computer for .5-2 seconds every time i alt tabbed out of a game.

so i stopped using g-sync but then it somehow turned itself on without me knowing but the blackscreening stopped however.

when i was in a loadingscreen framelimiter was set to 1 so anything i had on my other monitor would run at 1 fps and everything would lag out and my games could crash in loadingscreens if i leftclicked.

so i turned it off

[minibois]

Depends on how you cap it; for example with VSync you basically delay any extra frames. That is a way of capping fps that does not improve latency.

Usually when talking about refresh rate, fps and latency I post this image:

 

This kind of shows how more fps will affect latency.

If you take the bottom image as an example, just imagine VSync will just hold a frame until the refresh rate 'asks' for another frame; which can make it so a frame can be withheld from being shown to you between the no time - 1/144th of a second.

[flashiling]

so when playing shooters will g-sync help me a lot?