Slimebeast said:
Oops. Freesync it is. Speaking of which, do you notice any difference between Freesync and v-sync? I know the technical difference, but I haven't figured out the actual effect. Will the framerate in a game somehow look smoother in front of you, or is it just a way to save frames in the framebuffer to allow a higher effective framerate or something? Yeah, €1000 for a monitor is a lot of money and about three times as much as I've spent in the past. That's why I'm not sure about the curved Acer 3440x1440 monitor yet. I agree about the pixels per inch and what should be optimal. I've never had an IPS panel and never seen one that I knew was IPS so that's going to be exciting. And like you I'm puzzled by 144Hz, will it really feel as amazing as they say? What do you think of IPS? Any noticeble difference compared with TN and VA? And the question of betting on ultrawide or not, I think you've convinced me now. How long do you think 'til you upgrade your monitor? And the rest of PC hardware too. My thumb rule in theory is every three years for the PC build including OS (the whole package excluding monitor), every two years for GPU and every 4 years for monitor, but since the first two don't sync with each other, it's different every time - sometimes a CPU lasts two GPU cycles, sometimes only one for practical reasons. |
Freesync & G-sync stop split frames from happending, which can still happend with vsync on.
Suppoedly its without extra latency or input lag. Just buttery smooth frames.
€1000 for a monitor... thats alot, with that amount your probably getting one hellva good monitor.
I heard people say that with freesync/g-sync, your 30fps lock game *feels* better than most do without at 60 fps.
Sony & microsoft need to get this into consoles, and TV manufactures need to add this feature to future TVs (along with HDR).
