The WII U version runs at 59 fps for no appearant reason. On a 60 hz monitor you have to fill that one missing frame with information, so you get a duplicated frame to do so. The picture stays for 2 frames the same and goes to the next.
Frame 1, Frame 2, Frame 3, Frame 3, Frame 4, Frame 5, Frame 6, Frame 6 , Frame 7, Frame 8, Frame 9 and so on, to show you what I mean. That happens to every 59th frame. So what you experience is a microstutter in the game every single second. It's quite noticeable for some people.
Run the video at 0.25 speed and you will notice it more clearer when the video seems to have a stutter at some point.
I and several other people notice those things at normal speed and it is really annoying.
I am using G-Sync on my PC for that main reason. Because games on PC can have all kind of frame drops depending on the configuration.
Playing without G-Sync or V-Sync would cause tearing to the screen. That's what Xbox360 and PS3 have and why even the Wii was superior in providing a clean image to your TV than both of those consoles.
V-sync can get rid of tearing, but it creates an input lag and on lower frames you experience stutter when the frames are not equal to the hz.
G-sync sets the hz of the monitor according to the frames and they are always in sync, which avoids stuttering and input lag.
I have a few stuttering and movement removal settings on my TV to make an image look more fluently which is nice in games and crap for everything else. Anyway perhaps I didn't notice it because of that since I usually can distern 60 from 30 fps and a fluent 60fps to an unstable 60fps.
Ah, you mean that motion plus stuff? That's what it is called on Samsung.
I'm using it aswell, but only for TV and Video. It should be deactivated for Videogames and PC if you are running them on the TV.
This features is distorting the image in the post-processing to make the picture to appear more fluidly. But it also causes errors at some places and scenes where it doesn't have the information to fill the part of the image. It starts to look weird. It's great when you fly over landscape, but in close up action scenes it gets whacky.
Nevertheless, you should activate the gaming mode on your TV for consoles and such, because all those post-processing effects will generate an input lag.
