Is it just me? in-game FPS Cap

[Princess Luna]

I have experienced this since I got back into PC gaming when the first game I started with my "old" recently built build rocking an i7 6700 and a TITAN X Maxwell... It was The Witcher 3 and I had a common 1080p60hz 40inch TV... I remember originally using the in-game built in fps cap... set it to 60fps and went on to play.

 

Thing is I had the most HORRIBLE tearing... whenever I moved either the camera or the character I'd experience the tearing it was driving me nuts... tried to mess a bit more up then saw I could use V-Sync (triple buffered) so disable the fps cap and used it instead, the game stayed at the exact same 60fps but the tearing ended right on spot and the gameplay was butter smooth with absolutely no slow down, stuttering or the tearing.

 

After this experience I started using V-Sync always until recently I went to play AC Origins for the first time (great game it totally feels like playing The Witcher 3 even, that 1 year off saved the franchise as both Unity and Syndicate were total bullshit).

 

Thing is as I went to the in-game graphical menu before even starting the game to set all to maximum and let my i7 and 1080 Ti suffer I realized the option to turn V-Sync was locked... but the in-game fps cap could be enable... well w/e went with it... set to 80fps as the monitor only works on this game if overclocked up to 80hz for some reason can't sustain the 100hz overclock (it resets down to 60hz if I force it).

 

Either ways the game started and I see 80fps locked, just as I leave the underground temple and the game really starts again a complete terrible screen tearing, every movement and I had awful tearing it was a disaster I couldn't get more of it so I went on the settings again and now the V-Sync option was available for whatever reason, so I disabled the cap, turned on V-sync went back to the game the identical same 80fps locked HOWEVER there was absolutely no more tearing and again the game was butter smooth, perfect experience.

 

So this left me wondering for real at least with my personal experience all the times I tried these in-game FPS cap tool it does cap but I experience infernal tearing while V-sync provides a perfectly smooth experience... so why the hell does the games have this tool in the first place if it's useless at dealing with what you'd expect it to deal with? the tearing issue?

 

What am I missing here?

[Brooksie359]

Honestly probably for higher fps like 200 or something like that. If you put it at 60 and the game ends up being out of sync with your monitor then you will have consistently off frames causing tearing. If you put in a cap to make the game less prone to huge fps inconsistencies at higher fps then it could be useful. 

[Bananasplit_00]

V sync gives you input lag to hell and back a coupple of hundred times over. i never get any noticable tearing anyway and i generally run unlimited or a cap 2-4 times what my monitor can do depending on the game

[Princess Luna]

3 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

V sync gives you input lag to hell and back a coupple of hundred times over

Personally speaking I have never had any issues with input lag from using v-sync... then again I use it on single player games only.

[Bananasplit_00]

3 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Personally speaking I have never had any issues with input lag from using v-sync... then again I use it on single player games only.

most of what i play are fast fps games, so i tend to notice it. When Paladins forced Vsync on me when i went to use DX11 i just picked appart the config files untill i could get it away  in singleplayer games like TW3 id imagine its not too bad, game dosent from the 1h i have played seem too fast and twitchy really

[AlTech]

20 hours ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

most of what i play are fast fps games, so i tend to notice it. When Paladins forced Vsync on me when i went to use DX11 i just picked appart the config files untill i could get it away  in singleplayer games like TW3 id imagine its not too bad, game dosent from the 1h i have played seem too fast and twitchy really

In boss fights in Witcher 3, high framerate helps a lot . 40 ish fps boss fights weren't too fun on my GTX 770 . 

[AlTech]

@Princess Cadence As for your V-Sync issue. I have no idea. I can easily disable V-Sync if I want to although by default it was enabled for me.