Gsync or Vsync?

[Neko91]

I'm a little confused as to what my settings should be. I have a new setup: Win10 with a GTX 1080 Ti card with 11 mb RAM, 27" Gsync monitor. I've been playing with Vsync enabled through ENB and frames capped at 59 fps because when I first started playing Skyrim on the new setup, I enabled Gsync and had terrible results -- I'm not sure if it was extreme tearing or not but it was so bad I enabled Vsync and that took care of the problem. And it's been fine, no problems -- but today I thought I would try Gsync again. Enabled Gsync in Nvidia Inspector with FPS limiter off, preferred refresh rate at highest possible, Vsync using the application setting. In my ENB, I turned off Vsync and the frame limiter. Tested it by going from Rorikstead to South Shriekwind Bastion and did part of that dungeon. No graphics problems this time and fps stayed around 80, but after awhile in Shriekwind Bastion, movement started to feel really sluggish even though the fps stayed high. It was so unpleasant that I switched everything back to the original Vsync settings. So what I'm asking is what would be the best settings to optimize this kind of setup? Does anyone with similar hardware have any recommendations?

[27X]

Caps your frames at 64

 

 

or institute the Havok FPS fix at 80 and use Gysnc ONLY, turning vsync off period at the driver level, not the application and having pre-rendered frames at 1.

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[Neko91]

22 minutes ago, 27X said:

Caps your frames at 64

 

 

or institute the Havok FPS fix at 80 and use Gysnc ONLY, turning vsync off period at the driver level, not the application and having pre-rendered frames at 1.

 

Thanks, 27X. Is there any advantage though to using Gsync settings instead of Vsync, other than a higher FPS?

[LazyBoot]

2 hours ago, Neko91 said:

Thanks, 27X. Is there any advantage though to using Gsync settings instead of Vsync, other than a higher FPS?

In most cases you'll want to use gsync if you can, since vsync can often cause input lag.

However when it comes to skyrim (and some of the other games in the same engine) you'll want to cap framerate somehow because of issues with higher framerates.

[27X]

4 hours ago, Neko91 said:

Thanks, 27X. Is there any advantage though to using Gsync settings instead of Vsync, other than a higher FPS?

Higher FPS, which means more time for papyrus resolves to occur without barfing up a lung, more responsive controls and more evened out frametimes (not the same thing as framerate, youtube it) under heavy load. Capping is necessary because of havok, the higher you can cap the overall more improved your experience will be most especially at resolutions over 2K without vsync.

[Neko91]

4 hours ago, 27X said:

Higher FPS, which means more time for papyrus resolves to occur without barfing up a lung, more responsive controls and more evened out frametimes (not the same thing as framerate, youtube it) under heavy load. Capping is necessary because of havok, the higher you can cap the overall more improved your experience will be most especially at resolutions over 2K without vsync.

Very useful information and good to know -- thank you so much for your help!