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Gsync on an (unsupported) freesync monitor?

bungusboy81
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I've been using gsync on my monitor ever since I got my new computer with an nvidia GPU, but I was wondering if, since my monitor doesn't officially support gsync, only gsync, it could be causing or could cause issues. I've noticed stutters and bad frametimes in certain games and I know for a fact that some of them are just the game engine messing it up, but I wanted to know if my monitor could also be causing the problem with frametimes and stutters. Could it be?

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On 6/26/2021 at 12:15 PM, bungusboy81 said:

I've been using gsync on my monitor ever since I got my new computer with an nvidia GPU, but I was wondering if, since my monitor doesn't officially support gsync, only gsync, it could be causing or could cause issues. I've noticed stutters and bad frametimes in certain games and I know for a fact that some of them are just the game engine messing it up, but I wanted to know if my monitor could also be causing the problem with frametimes and stutters. Could it be?

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As long as you can enable it and verify that it works (For example use the G-Sync pendulum demo and look for stuttering/tearing) then there are no bad side effects of using G-Sync on a FreeSync monitor. It can happen that you enable it on a FreeSync monitor but it's acutally not really active. The only way to know is to test it like i wrote above.

If someone did not use reason to reach their conclusion in the first place, you cannot use reason to convince them otherwise.

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5 hours ago, Stahlmann said:

As long as you can enable it and verify that it works (For example use the G-Sync pendulum demo and look for stuttering/tearing) then there are no bad side effects of using G-Sync on a FreeSync monitor. It can happen that you enable it on a FreeSync monitor but it's acutally not really active. The only way to know is to test it like i wrote above.

I've done that test before and it worked so I should be fine. Thank you!

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