free/g sync @ 144hz significant benefit

[Rhett Quigley]

I guess what I'm trying to say is how much screen tearing is their @ 144hz?

[Mira Yurizaki]

Depends on what the frame rate at the time is. The further you are from the refresh rate and its even divisible numbers (72, 36, 18, 9, etc), the more tearing there will be.

[Rhett Quigley]

1 minute ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Depends on what the frame rate at the time is. The further you are from the refresh rate and its even divisible numbers (72, 36, 18, 9, etc), the more tearing there will be.

How about a game like csgo where the fps is locked @ 144hz stable?

[Thony]

I play at any range between 50-144FPS and havent experienced any tearing.
Funny enough there was tearing on my 60Hz monitor when I used that one as main lol.

[Mira Yurizaki]

1 minute ago, Rhett Quigley said:

How about a game like csgo where the fps is locked @ 144hz stable?

If your FPS matches the refresh rate or its divisible numbers, then there will be no tearing. Tearing is the result of the frame rate not in line with the refresh rate or its divisible numbers.

 

(What's the proper math term? I forget)

[Rhett Quigley]

1 minute ago, M.Yurizaki said:

If your FPS matches the refresh rate or its divisible numbers, then there will be no tearing. Tearing is the result of the frame rate not in line with the refresh rate.

Even @ 60hz? So I can lock the frame rate @ the monitors refresh rate and get no tearing?

[Mira Yurizaki]

3 minutes ago, Rhett Quigley said:

Even @ 60hz? So I can lock the frame rate @ the monitors refresh rate and get no tearing?

Yes. Again, if the FPS is a factor (there's the term!) of the refresh rate, there is no tearing. i.e., if your frame rate is 30 FPS, it will line up evenly with 60Hz because the frame will exist for two whole refresh cycles. Tearing happens when a frame does not exist for a whole refresh cycle.

[manikyath]

from my experience tearing seems to be very game-dependant. i have games where whatever i try i cannot get them to tear, while others tear all over the place the moment they're 5FPS off target.

[Rhett Quigley]

2 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Yes. Again, if the FPS is a factor (there's the term!) of the refresh rate, there is no tearing. i.e., if your frame rate is 30 FPS, it will line up evenly with 60Hz because the frame will exist for two whole refresh cycles. Tearing happens when a frame does not exist for a whole refresh cycle.

So who would buy a gsync or freesync monitor?

[Mira Yurizaki]

2 minutes ago, Rhett Quigley said:

So who would buy a gsync or freesync monitor?

When your frame rate varies enough that you can't guarantee it'll match up with the refresh rate, and some people don't want to reduce settings to guarantee that.

[Energycore]

15 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

If your FPS matches the refresh rate or its divisible numbers, then there will be no tearing. Tearing is the result of the frame rate not in line with the refresh rate or its divisible numbers.

 

(What's the proper math term? I forget)

Divisors? Every number that divides 144 (you can multiply it by another integer to get 144) is a divisor of 144.

 

I get screen tearing over 60Hz but I also don't like the additional latency with vsync so I just cap the framerate at 60.

[Mira Yurizaki]

1 minute ago, Energycore said:

Divisors? Every number that divides 144 (you can multiply it by another integer to get 144) is a divisor of 144.

 

I get screen tearing over 60Hz but I also don't like the additional latency with vsync so I just cap the framerate at 60.

Turn on triple buffering in your drivers, it supposedly solves the latency issue of vsync.

[Energycore]

1 minute ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Turn on triple buffering in your drivers, it supposedly solves the latency issue of vsync.

I'll try that.