The_Golden_Man
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- Apr 7, 2012
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Here's what happened in some games with vsync turned on:
--Game is at 60 fps with vsync.
--Kepler says, oh I have power to spare, lets downclock a bit.
--Kepler downclocks.
--FPS goes below 60 for a split second.
--Vsync stutter occurs.
--Meanwhile, if you had vsync turned off the framerate could be something absurd like 200 fps. So if you had vsync on you'd get weird dips to 45-50 fps but you'd get 200 fps with vsync off. This happened to me in diablo 3, WoW, darksiders, SR3, and a few other games. It didn't happen in all games though, didn't happen in crysis 2 or bf3. I wanna say it mostly happened in older games with ridiculously high framerates.
This happens in specific games, it didn't happen in all titles - the new beta resolved most of the stutter for me. Some are still reporting it though.
You can use MSI Afterburner or Precision to limit FPS when not using Vsync.