G-Sync Monitor Confusion

[MacAaroni]

Recently i had upgraded my 1080P 60Hz monitor to a 1440P 144Hz G-Sync Monitor (Dell S2716DG) and noticed in some games i was getting a lot of screen tearing when i was between 60-144 frames. A little confused on why this is happening.

 

I've been able to fix the issue using out of game settings in Nvidia Control Panel with V-Sync, but as far as im aware, using V-Sync introduces a bit of input lag? Would like to avoid as much input lag as possible. I thought the whole point of G-Sync was to avoid having to use anything that would cause more input lag and have the Monitor do all the work to keep things smooth.  Shouldn't G-Sync pretty much work out of the box? What am i missing? 

 

PS: Already tried searching the web & these forums for a clear answer, but no luck. Thanks for the help in advance.

[KSP]

For the S2716DG, you have to enable GSync through the NVIDIA Control Panel if I remember right

 

edit: and turn off VSync, it’s dumb

[sazrocks]

I have the 24" version of that monitor; it works great. Have you enabled G-sync? Make sure v-sync is off too. What game are you playing? Is it full screen or windowed?

[MacAaroni]

14 minutes ago, sazrocks said:

I have the 24" version of that monitor; it works great. Have you enabled G-sync? Make sure v-sync is off too. What game are you playing? Is it full screen or windowed?

 

Yeah i had G-Sync enabled and V-Sync off globally, but i think i just fixed my issue for good! Took a look at the Nvidia Control Panel Settings again and went under Display > Change Resolution > Refresh Rate and saw that it was at 60Hz instead of 144Hz...  Wouldn't have guessed this was the issue cause I've played at higher than 60 FPS and didn't seem to have any screen tearing. I'll test this out on more games, but hopefully this was the fix i needed.