Vsync on or off?

[Deleted]

Anyone playing 24/7 with Vsync off? What's your experiences with it? Do you notice a lot of screen tearing?

I personally haven't tried playing with it off, but tried turning it on for the sake of it and was really fun to see the higher fps, and so far I haven't seen any tearing.

Any downsides with it? (Screen tearing, more loads on your PC something else)?

Would love to hear your opinions about it ;-)

[Deleted]

I don't know what screen tearing is either, never noticed something awful only the massive increase in fps.

[Nellah]

I run with VSync off for WoW, on for most other games where performance is more uniform or where screen tearing is more noticeable (FPS games, adventure games, just about every single player game).

[Wries]

On my laptop I get screen tearing directly even just with a couple of frames above 60 fps, but on my desktop I don't see anything.

On both PC's I am using the command SET maxfps on 60, so it tries to hover around that value, exceeding it slightly especially on the desktop. Might start getting noticable tearing on the desktop if I remove it and let fps reach higher values. Might try it someday.

[Hottage]

Well, if you can run the game with VSync off without noticing distortions, then you definitely should.

[Valanna]

There's no point of having it off, since doing that will only increase your FPS past your monitor's capability, thus gaining nothing.

[Asera]

I don't notice any tearing, but I do notice my GPU fan revving up more due to it rendering a bunch of frames I will never see. Also Aero becomes far less responsive when alt tabbing. Vsync off is a silly idea.

[Deleted]

My mouse responds faster with vsync off. In Audiosurf for example, they enforce Vsync, it makes your mouse sluggish. As soon as you patch it off with a loader, the mouse is as responsive as it would be on desktop.

[Remortal]

Well, if you can run the game with VSync off without noticing distortions, then you definitely should.

Why should you? What is there to gain?

[Nellah]

There's no point of having it off, since doing that will only increase your FPS past your monitor's capability, thus gaining nothing.

This discussion comes up a lot.

Since most games don't support true triple buffering - and forcing it on in drivers is, last time I checked, also not true triple buffering - enabling VSync sets your framerate to a divisor of 60. In other words, if your video card can render faster than 60fps, you see 60fps. However, if it cannot, and it renders at 57-58fps, you will only see 30fps... which means noticeably jumpy framerates if it's hovering around there and constantly switching between 60fps and 30fps.

If your video card is rendering at 28fps, you instead get 15 (15 * 4 = 60). 14, you get 7.5, and so on.