[Semi-Solved] Vsync

[gandalf91]

Actually, Tanshaydar is correct, vsync can impact your overall framerate. Not just the maximum threshold.

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On that note though, it has never caused a game of mine to be unplayable...not even remotely.

This was the case years ago. My video card is powerful enough to render frames faster than my monitor can refresh itself, so enabling vsync will not reduce my average frame rate. All that will happen is that my fps will be locked to the maximum.

But like I said, during times of heavy load when my card can't keep up with the 60FPS, then it falls behind and that is where you incur the performance hit. That is not the case here.

With that being said, that is with double-buffering. With triple buffering, that's an entire new buffer in the VRAM and then Vsync has no performance hit at all (on newer cards).

That's not how vsync works. It doesn't matter how powerful your card is. Vsync in forces your card to "wait".