Vsync Makes me Lag

[A Silver]

When I play GTA 5 I get over 70fps but my monitor is pretty bad and looks laggy when I go above 60fps. When I enable vsync it stays at 60fps but then sometimes goes down to 40fps. Is there a way to stop it  from lagging?

[Simon771]

2 hours ago, A Silver said:

When I play GTA 5 I get over 70fps but my monitor is pretty bad and looks laggy when I go above 60fps. When I enable vsync it stays at 60fps but then sometimes goes down to 40fps. Is there a way to stop it  from lagging?

Without Vsync you never drop to 40fps?

I belive that in some scenes you will have FPS drop regardless of vsync settings.

[A Silver]

19 minutes ago, Simon771 said:

Without Vsync you never drop to 40fps?

I belive that in some scenes you will have FPS drop regardless of vsync settings.

When I have vsync sometimes it drops to 50fps but very rarely. It is usually 70-80fps with it off.

[Dash Lambda]

Vsync is known for that, it's one of the reasons the PC crowd tends to hate it.

What do you mean when you say it looks "laggy" when you go above 60FPS?

[DXMember]

32 minutes ago, Dash Lambda said:

Vsync is known for that, it's one of the reasons the PC crowd tends to hate it.

What do you mean when you say it looks "laggy" when you go above 60FPS?

GTA tears like a bitch

when you drive at high speeds and tearing occurs your car appears to judder between 3 different frames

 

instead of VSync try using framerate target control if you have AMD card or some other frame limiting option

you can also increase the graphics settings slightly to get closer to 60fps or try to cycle between Windowed, Windowed Borderless and Full screen options - see if that makes a difference

[A Silver]

1 hour ago, DXMember said:

GTA tears like a bitch

when you drive at high speeds and tearing occurs your car appears to judder between 3 different frames

 

instead of VSync try using framerate target control if you have AMD card or some other frame limiting option

you can also increase the graphics settings slightly to get closer to 60fps or try to cycle between Windowed, Windowed Borderless and Full screen options - see if that makes a difference

Thanks, How would I enable frame rate target control?

[Mira Yurizaki]

Have you tried Vsync with Triple Buffering? Supposedly this helps a lot with the "lagging" http://www.anandtech.com/show/2794

[A Silver]

1 minute ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Have you tried Vsync with Triple Buffering? Supposedly this helps a lot with the "lagging" http://www.anandtech.com/show/2794

there is no option for that on gta. It only has "on" "off" and "half"

 

[Mira Yurizaki]

1 minute ago, A Silver said:

there is no option for that on gta. It only has "on" "off" and "half"

 

Force it in your driver options. Specifically look for Triple Buffering, but leave Vsync alone (as in let the game decide it)

[A Silver]

1 minute ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Force it in your driver options. Specifically look for Triple Buffering, but leave Vsync alone (as in let the game decide it)

Okay, how would I get to my driver options (AMD card)

[Mira Yurizaki]

I can't help you there because I don't use AMD. Just poke around your CCC or Crimson software suite.

[DXMember]

1 hour ago, A Silver said:

Okay, how would I get to my driver options (AMD card)

right click your desktop select radeon setting and in graphics settings enable frame rate target control