Hello, my name is Deu sex,
For years, I have been searching for a way to get an awesome gaming experience that wouldn't require to buy an expensive 144Hz monitor.
Today, I think I have the best aviable solution, and I wanted to share it with you, it might sound long, but trust me, the benefits are really interesting.
By following this tutorial, you are going to get the exact same behaviour as an adaptive Vsync, but with 0 additional stuttering (a pretty annoying problem with all kind of vsync), and 0 inputlag/mouselag (same here).
If you don't see what I mean, it just mean that as long as your GPU render the frames, you'll get a tearingfree lagfree stutterfree gaming experience, and that can be achieved even with a really cheap monitor.
1 - Customise a resolution that is the native resolution of your screen, but with the highest possible frequency your monitor can handle.
I recommend going Hz by Hz from the original frequency, and stop to the previous one when the image show problems with colors or else.
For example, I have a ****ty 1920*1080 60 Hz monitor that cost me 80$, but with nvidia control panel custom resolution options and in CVT reduced blanking mode, I can create a 1920*1080 71Hz resolution without quality loss.
72 Hz destroys my colors though.
Set this new resolution you created as your active one when you want to play games. When you want to do regular stuff though, revert back to the original one.
2 - Download and install RivaTuner : http://ift.tt/1IJ1VB4
This is probably a software you already heard about because it is host on Guru3D !
It is an exellent software and we will be using it to limit the framerate of our games.
3 - Download and install Borderless Gaming : http://ift.tt/1IJ1Ygc
This is another exellent software we will be using to play our games in windowed fullscreen mode for games that don't natively support it ( because yes, we will be doing that, and I'll explain why later ;) ).
4 - Choose a game, and if it doesn't natively support widowed fullscreen/borderless window mode, put it in regular windowed mode ( all games have a windowed mode, even if it's not present in the regular graphics/advanced settings, there is always a way to do it, google is your best friend for life <3 ).
5 - Execute RivaTuner, use it to limit the framerate of your game to the exact same value as your current active screen refresh rate your set at 1 -
I am not going to explain how to do it, as I don't want this to be a Novel.
Google is still your best friend.
Keep RivaTuner running in system tray while your game is running.
6 - Execute Borderless Gaming (only if the game doesn't support windowed fullscreen/borderless windowed natively), choose the active game (it should be displayed, it is very easy to use) and put it in the favourite list (on the right).
That way it should automatically put your game in windowed fullscreen mode each time you launch it if Borderless Gaming is running.
7 - You are done, enjoy your games like never before !
Maybe some explanations are welcome now ?
1 - Is it really worth it ?
Ohhh yeah ! Erm, I mean, It depends on the type of games you play, If you play slow paced games in general, you won't get a lot interested in this feature (still it makes things better).
But if you are playing FPS games, especially fast FPS games, and especially online, you HAVE to do this as it makes a BIG difference in comfort and reactiveness. Trust me.
2 - Why use windowed mode ?
Because fullscreen mode is kinda broken on windows since a long time, and introduce huge mouselag on mouse coordinates capture when vsync is enabled, and even if you disable vsync and limit the framerate correctly, it will still display a tearing line because fullscreen as a little delay on rendering compared to windowed.
3 - Why you don't use vsync on windowed mode instead of limiting the framerate ?
Traditional vsync doesn't work in windowed mode, it is a fullscreen specific feature.
If you have a tearing free experience with vsync in widowed mode, it means the game is using a workaround to limit the framerate instead, Alien : Isolation is an excellent example of that kind of rare exceptions, and should be praised for doing things right.
4 - Why you don't use vsync (fullscreen) and limit the framerate ? it works too.
True, but even if it's the case, there will still be a frame delay, because of the way vsync works, by preparing the next frame and waiting for it.
For example, if I play on a 60 Hz refreshrate resolution, the time between two frames will be 16.66666 ms, with vsync, even if I do things right, I will always AT LEAST have a 16.66666 ms delay on my controls (+ monitor response time).
In windowed mode, the delay for your controls only depends... on your controls. (+ monitor response time)
5 - Does it works with every games on the planet ?
Unfortunately no, but hopefully, the exceptions are very rare.
To tell one, Metro redux series doesn't work right with windowed mode but don't worry as the game have a very good fullcreen vsync implementation and refreshrate recognition support.
It is also a pretty slow paced FPS so you won't really be able to tell the difference, regular settings feels okay :)
6 - Why no games have this kind of implementation ?
They are, but they are extremely rare, especially modern ones, Alien : Isolation being a notable exception as said earlier, my theory about it is that most developer during the last 10 years was focusing on console development, and since consoles works a bit differently, most developers didn't take time to do proper PC ports with good framerate control implementation, too bad ! Hopefully you now have a pretty powerful workaround.
Thank you for reading my (pretty big, sorry for that !) tutorial, and let me know how you feel about it, do you feel that difference ? I hope you do :)
For years, I have been searching for a way to get an awesome gaming experience that wouldn't require to buy an expensive 144Hz monitor.
Today, I think I have the best aviable solution, and I wanted to share it with you, it might sound long, but trust me, the benefits are really interesting.
By following this tutorial, you are going to get the exact same behaviour as an adaptive Vsync, but with 0 additional stuttering (a pretty annoying problem with all kind of vsync), and 0 inputlag/mouselag (same here).
If you don't see what I mean, it just mean that as long as your GPU render the frames, you'll get a tearingfree lagfree stutterfree gaming experience, and that can be achieved even with a really cheap monitor.
1 - Customise a resolution that is the native resolution of your screen, but with the highest possible frequency your monitor can handle.
I recommend going Hz by Hz from the original frequency, and stop to the previous one when the image show problems with colors or else.
For example, I have a ****ty 1920*1080 60 Hz monitor that cost me 80$, but with nvidia control panel custom resolution options and in CVT reduced blanking mode, I can create a 1920*1080 71Hz resolution without quality loss.
72 Hz destroys my colors though.
Set this new resolution you created as your active one when you want to play games. When you want to do regular stuff though, revert back to the original one.
2 - Download and install RivaTuner : http://ift.tt/1IJ1VB4
This is probably a software you already heard about because it is host on Guru3D !
It is an exellent software and we will be using it to limit the framerate of our games.
3 - Download and install Borderless Gaming : http://ift.tt/1IJ1Ygc
This is another exellent software we will be using to play our games in windowed fullscreen mode for games that don't natively support it ( because yes, we will be doing that, and I'll explain why later ;) ).
4 - Choose a game, and if it doesn't natively support widowed fullscreen/borderless window mode, put it in regular windowed mode ( all games have a windowed mode, even if it's not present in the regular graphics/advanced settings, there is always a way to do it, google is your best friend for life <3 ).
5 - Execute RivaTuner, use it to limit the framerate of your game to the exact same value as your current active screen refresh rate your set at 1 -
I am not going to explain how to do it, as I don't want this to be a Novel.
Google is still your best friend.
Keep RivaTuner running in system tray while your game is running.
6 - Execute Borderless Gaming (only if the game doesn't support windowed fullscreen/borderless windowed natively), choose the active game (it should be displayed, it is very easy to use) and put it in the favourite list (on the right).
That way it should automatically put your game in windowed fullscreen mode each time you launch it if Borderless Gaming is running.
7 - You are done, enjoy your games like never before !
Maybe some explanations are welcome now ?
1 - Is it really worth it ?
Ohhh yeah ! Erm, I mean, It depends on the type of games you play, If you play slow paced games in general, you won't get a lot interested in this feature (still it makes things better).
But if you are playing FPS games, especially fast FPS games, and especially online, you HAVE to do this as it makes a BIG difference in comfort and reactiveness. Trust me.
2 - Why use windowed mode ?
Because fullscreen mode is kinda broken on windows since a long time, and introduce huge mouselag on mouse coordinates capture when vsync is enabled, and even if you disable vsync and limit the framerate correctly, it will still display a tearing line because fullscreen as a little delay on rendering compared to windowed.
3 - Why you don't use vsync on windowed mode instead of limiting the framerate ?
Traditional vsync doesn't work in windowed mode, it is a fullscreen specific feature.
If you have a tearing free experience with vsync in widowed mode, it means the game is using a workaround to limit the framerate instead, Alien : Isolation is an excellent example of that kind of rare exceptions, and should be praised for doing things right.
4 - Why you don't use vsync (fullscreen) and limit the framerate ? it works too.
True, but even if it's the case, there will still be a frame delay, because of the way vsync works, by preparing the next frame and waiting for it.
For example, if I play on a 60 Hz refreshrate resolution, the time between two frames will be 16.66666 ms, with vsync, even if I do things right, I will always AT LEAST have a 16.66666 ms delay on my controls (+ monitor response time).
In windowed mode, the delay for your controls only depends... on your controls. (+ monitor response time)
5 - Does it works with every games on the planet ?
Unfortunately no, but hopefully, the exceptions are very rare.
To tell one, Metro redux series doesn't work right with windowed mode but don't worry as the game have a very good fullcreen vsync implementation and refreshrate recognition support.
It is also a pretty slow paced FPS so you won't really be able to tell the difference, regular settings feels okay :)
6 - Why no games have this kind of implementation ?
They are, but they are extremely rare, especially modern ones, Alien : Isolation being a notable exception as said earlier, my theory about it is that most developer during the last 10 years was focusing on console development, and since consoles works a bit differently, most developers didn't take time to do proper PC ports with good framerate control implementation, too bad ! Hopefully you now have a pretty powerful workaround.
Thank you for reading my (pretty big, sorry for that !) tutorial, and let me know how you feel about it, do you feel that difference ? I hope you do :)
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