V-Sync - A Reasonable Choice for the Not Too Picky?

[ronhowe]

If I understand things...

 

• You get tearing if your graphics subsystem provides more FPS than your monitor's refresh rate.
  
• You get stuttering if your graphics subsystem provides too few FPS for your monitor's refresh rate.
  

 

If you're OK with a 60 Hz monitor and you have a graphics subsystem that can drive a minimum of 60 FPS, is enabling v-sync a reasonable option to eliminate tearing and stuttering?

 

I'm not interested in G Sync or Freesync or more than 60 FPS.  I'm more interested in a smooth FPS.

 

Be gentle and thanks in advance.

 

[JuztBe]

Yes, it's fine. Unless you are playing competitive games on a pro level.

[Red Dragon]

The only thing is that sometime v-Sync can cause input lag but if you don't mind that you should be fine

[minibois]

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G sync and Freesync make it so your monitor's refresh rate is the same as your fps in game.

Vsync makes it so your fps cannot go higher than your monitor's refresh rate. It can go lower, just not higher.

 

In your case vsync would cap your fps at 60.

[ronhowe]

The only thing is that sometime v-Sync can cause input lag but if you don't mind that you should be fine

 

Understood and I am OK with that.  I'm not pro by any means.  I prefer smoothness vs more FPS.

 

Thanks, all.

[Badger906]

I've been a pc gamer about 22 years. 21 of those years there was no g sync or freesync soo... its easy to live without!!

[Briggsy]

Technically v-sync does 2 things:

 

V-sync's primary (and only) function is to match up each frame with a refresh cycle of the monitor, going by multiples of 30 (not going to try to describe that part, it would be a wall of text).

 

As a side effect, you can never exceed the refresh rate of your monitor because you graphic card is only allowing whole frames to be displayed, along with duplicated frames when necessary if your frame rate isn't exactly 30, 60, 90, 120 etc. In the case of cause and effect, frame limiting is an effect.

 

(Semantics) to be fair, v-sync shouldn't be referred to as a frame limiter, because a true frame limiter does not sync up frames with refresh cycles of the monitor, but only does what the name implies (like with Riva Tuner Statistics Server's Frame Limiter).

[bydus]

I play all my games with vsync with 360 controller and its lovely. I don't care about higher frame rate and also prefer smoothness. I do have a powerful setup i7 and 970. Don't sue me for enjoying smoothness, i tried 60fps on ps4 and it was an amazing experience when I still had it but sold for gaming pc and now I play all games at 60fps :-) .