Games running over monitor max refresh rate

[sKetchyy]

Hi all, 
Hopefully you can point me in the right direction here.

 

I have an issue where Rainbow Six Siege will run above the maximum refresh rate of my monitor, which causes all kinds of screen tear when using GSYNC.

 

I've set the monitor refresh rate to 142hz so it doesn't ever reach the maximum of 144hz. I've also set the game settings to 142hz yet it continues to go above this whilst playing the game.

 

Any ideas? Apologies if that is way more confusing than it needs to be.

[racer243l]

Use vsync either in the game itself or force it on in the control panel

[Nocte]

You need to limit the FPS, not the Hz.

Also, if using G-Sync you should not experience tearing. Are you sure it's activated?

[Guest]

Use both Gsync and Vsync. Gsycn reduces tearing when the fps is under the monitor refresh rate, Vsync when the fps is above the refreshrate.

[sKetchyy]

5 minutes ago, Eibe said:

You need to limit the FPS, not the Hz.

Also, if using G-Sync you should not experience tearing. Are you sure it's activated?

GSYNC is definitely enabled. The issue I'm having here is I purchased a GSYNC monitor to not have to use VSYNC as I like to play with the lowest possible input lag. Is there a way I can do this without VSYNC? 

[sKetchyy]

5 minutes ago, Some Random Member said:

Use both Gsync and Vsync. Gsycn reduces tearing when the fps is under the monitor refresh rate, Vsync when the fps is above the refreshrate.

I've been looking into using RIVATUNER. Does this cause less input lag than VSYNC?

[Guest]

1 minute ago, sKetchyy said:

I've been looking into using RIVATUNER. Does this cause less input lag than VSYNC?

Just try putting on vsync in game settings. Vsnyc causes input lag only at 30-59 fps, but at high refreshrates it shouldn't.

[Nocte]

19 minutes ago, sKetchyy said:

GSYNC is definitely enabled. The issue I'm having here is I purchased a GSYNC monitor to not have to use VSYNC as I like to play with the lowest possible input lag. Is there a way I can do this without VSYNC? 

There is usually an option in-game to limit the FPS (depends on the game).

I don't know about NVIDIA Control Panel (I have an AMD Radeon GPU), but in my AMD graphic settings I can limit the FPS of certain applications directly from the driver, so that I can limit the framerate even if the game does not have an option to do so.

Check if NVIDIA as something similar in NVIDIA Control Panel or GeForce Experience.