nvidia Adaptive Vsync is pure marketing Bull !

[tweakboy]

Always vsync ON .... I have used vsync for the last 15 years sheeez!

Adaptive does the job but isnt as good as vsync always on.

 

[Final8ty]

Right. We're supposed to be unfriendly. Thanks for the reminder. Almost forgot.

You should know what "hardly notice" means as your reply was like teaching a granny how to suck eggs..

 

[felang]

Adaptive does the job but isnt as good as vsync always on.

Depends on what you want... if tearing bugs you more than hitching/stuttering or if you can maintain fps = or > than refresh rate then yes.

Although I agree that adaptive isn´t "the greatest invention since sliced bread", it is useful as it gives you the best of both worlds and in the end the option to use vsync is always there if you prefer it. Even if that means gaming at a jerky 30 fps.

 

[JAG87]

Right. It could lead to tearing, but not likely as tearing is usually a result of the GPU outputting frames faster than the refresh rate of the monitor, but does prevent that sudden jerky drop to 30fps as regular Vsync can do.

Umm actually no, tearing is not a result of that. Tearing has nothing to do with amount of frames. It doesn't matter if you are rendering less or more frames than the refresh rate, and it doesn't make it more or less likely to happen. It occurs because the frame outputs are de-synchronized from the monitor's refresh intervals. And it occurs if you render 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 or 50000 frames. For your eyes to see fully drawn integral frames, you MUST synchronize them to the monitor's refresh intervals.

Adaptive V-sync is simply designed to address those games that do not support triple buffering, and who's frame rate would therefore drastically drop to a multiple of the refresh rate (60>30>20>15) if the card cannot sustain 60 frames.

For the majority of titles it's pretty useless since vsync + triple buffering offers a much more pleasant experience. Actually it's completely useless because you can just use D3D Overrider to force triple buffering for those games that do not support it out of the box.

So you can tell NV to shove Adaptive Vsync up where it came from.