vertical sync

[id10x]

Hi . at some games i get more frames per second than 60 fps
but enabling vsync would limit my game to 60 fps

so in that case what is better ? to enable it and getting with 60 fps or disabling it
and have the maximum rate it will go ?

i am asking that because i was testing at the devil may cry 4 enabling vsync
but at 60 fps it gave me a B grade for performance

then i disabled it and tried again and it gave me a higher grade

so that made me wounder , is it and advantage or a disadvantage to enable it at that case ?

[ryuk999]

well if your refresh rate on your monitor is 60 hertz then anything above 60fps you most likely won't be able to see. As for vsync it removes "screen tearing" or when you turn the camera real fast in a game and then you see for a split second that the image is sort of broken some areas as this image displays.
http://www.nhancer.com/help/images/VSync.png

but i'd say that you would want vsync on if your getting well above 60 fps because you got that extra performance ^^

[pam123]

Unless you're having a screen tearing problem with a CRT monitor you could pretty much ignore vertical sync these days if you chose to.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_synchronization

[id10x]

am sorry i didnt provide my hardware info. thinking you would look at it in the signature, am usually talking
about this system because its the only one i have ...

but thanks anyway i get the idea

[id10x]

Originally Posted by id10x am sorry i didnt provide my hardware info. thinking you would look at it in the signature, am usually talking about this system because its the only one i have ... but thanks anyway i get the idea

in some games like resident evil 5 and assassin creed i dont see that tearing issue when vsync is off
but i see something like a line or a wave that goes from up the screen to the bottom of
it . it dosnt shred anything it just pass like the rim of a water wave when i turn fast.
but it goes away with vsync on .. i dont currently have a game that dose that
but when i get it again i will post a screen in this thread . thanks

[id10x]

i tried to record that line or wave on fraps video and screen shots but it did not appear
in the video or screens taken . strange but maybe its monitor related

[David M]

Unless you are having a tearing problem, vsync is of no use.

Most monitors at their native resolution are limited to 60 FPS. Even if the games frame rate is faster, 60 FPS is all you are going to get...which is plenty good. Our eyes cannot perceive much past 60 Hz anyways.

Check out what trilinear filtering does. L4D and WoW has it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilinear_filtering

[id10x]

humm , pretty complicated , i see what you mean about vsync but i still see that water wave edge kind of thing like a rim . no tearing it just go through the screen from up to down
like the Mexican wave . or like of you throw a stone in a pool of water
and it happen when i turn around and not in all games ..
like now i am playing Risen and Wolfenstein , its happening in Risen but not in Wolfenstein..

but Risen dose not have vsync option that seems to fix that wave on other games
like assassin creed and resident evil 5 .. sorry am a bit confused but that wave is not bothering
me its not that visible