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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: ACE on November 21, 2013, 08:23:36 AM

Title: Vsync
Post by: ACE on November 21, 2013, 08:23:36 AM
If you uncheck the Vysnc option for nearly any game you will get higher FPS if I'm not mistaken. However, you won't be able to see past your monitors refresh rate correct?  My main question is will this affect my Graphics card long term?  Like will it hurt it by constantly running 150-200 FPS?
Title: Re: Vsync
Post by: Bizman on November 21, 2013, 08:49:11 AM
It won't hurt the card nor the monitor. If you enable Vsync, the refresh rate of your monitor will be the limit. With Vsync disabled you can check the power of your Graphics card, but your screen won't actually draw the entire picture according the FPS. That means that what you see isn't actually there! The picture will be only partially synchronized, some parts of the image being older than others. In the worst scenario the guy you're hunting would in reality be already in your six! And who'd be the one to blame? Not him, he wouldn't have done anything wrong although from your point of you he'd been warping. Yepp, for gaming it'd be wise to have Vsync enabled.
Title: Re: Vsync
Post by: ACE on November 21, 2013, 08:51:56 AM
Thanks.