This is pretty weird. I've just bought myself a new Monitor (27", up from 24" - both 1080p) and I figured that since I have an AMD graphics card I would give freesync a try, since the additional cost is negligible.
Well.....
I think I just broke every non-adaptive monitor I'll ever use for gaming.
Literally 25 fps looks like 60 usually does. Judder, screen tear, stuttering, lag - all gone!
But the really, really weird thing is that Elite's microstutters have been all-but eliminated by it. When previously they were bad enough to be irritating and distracting, now they're just barely noticeable flickers. The frame rate used to jump about during the microstutters when entering a station or coming out of hyperdrive and it was really, really noticeable - now it's just a barely noticeable waver. My guess is that the underlying cause is still there, but because the monitor copes so much better with the fluctuating frame rate it's much, much less noticeable. You'd think the larger screen would make it more noticeable, too. The weirdly disconnected feeling I got from driving the SRV with Vsync on - that's a thing of the past. It now feels smooth, responsive and precise. In terms of smoothness and graphical performance I'd say this is actually a more significant upgrade than going from the R9 270 to the RX470 I did in the summer (it's cheaper, too, as it was £130 quid on Amazon). Frame rates have not gone up but, by god, they lows are FAR less intrusive. FPS isn't everything, it would appear.
Seriously. If you're thinking of getting a new monitor, get an adaptive-sync one (AMD Freesync or NVidia GSync - depending on your graphics card).
And I wonder if this suggests anything interesting about the cause for the Microstutters. I wonder if they got to production because FD are going to be developing the game on some fairly tasty kit - possibly with adaptive sync monitors?
Well.....
I think I just broke every non-adaptive monitor I'll ever use for gaming.
Literally 25 fps looks like 60 usually does. Judder, screen tear, stuttering, lag - all gone!
But the really, really weird thing is that Elite's microstutters have been all-but eliminated by it. When previously they were bad enough to be irritating and distracting, now they're just barely noticeable flickers. The frame rate used to jump about during the microstutters when entering a station or coming out of hyperdrive and it was really, really noticeable - now it's just a barely noticeable waver. My guess is that the underlying cause is still there, but because the monitor copes so much better with the fluctuating frame rate it's much, much less noticeable. You'd think the larger screen would make it more noticeable, too. The weirdly disconnected feeling I got from driving the SRV with Vsync on - that's a thing of the past. It now feels smooth, responsive and precise. In terms of smoothness and graphical performance I'd say this is actually a more significant upgrade than going from the R9 270 to the RX470 I did in the summer (it's cheaper, too, as it was £130 quid on Amazon). Frame rates have not gone up but, by god, they lows are FAR less intrusive. FPS isn't everything, it would appear.
Seriously. If you're thinking of getting a new monitor, get an adaptive-sync one (AMD Freesync or NVidia GSync - depending on your graphics card).
And I wonder if this suggests anything interesting about the cause for the Microstutters. I wonder if they got to production because FD are going to be developing the game on some fairly tasty kit - possibly with adaptive sync monitors?
