G-sync and V-sync/triple buffering

Games, Gaming & Hardware
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Greetings WoW forum,

Recently (3 days ago), I bought the AOC (AG241QX) 23.8", 2560x1440, 1ms, 1000:1, 144Hz, Gaming Monitor, and till now, I am trying to get used to the 1440p. I had, LG (24M37H-B) 23.5", 1920x1080, 5ms, 1000:1, 60hz, before and now with the small icons everywhere, I have a tiny issue with my eyes… but I will get used to them (I hope).

In addition, I got informed that my monitor is one of the displays which Nvidia “allowed??” them to support G-Sync, even if it was not in their spec. Of course, you had to have a GPU that supports G-sync too (Gigabyte GeForce GTX1060 6GB G1 Gaming (GV-N1060G1 GAMING-6GD Rev 2.0). So, I activated it through the Nvidia Control Center and I am good with it. I have a question though. I am not very good with technology and such things so, even though I read some articles about it, I did not understand much.

Since I have G-sync activated (the Vertical Sync option from Nvidia Control center is on default on “Use the 3D application setting”), should I activate the Vertical Sync in WoW too? Triple Buffering too? and what about Anti-Aliasing? I can handle the other settings…decently… but still… but when it has to do with these settings I find them confusing.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,
Aquiru

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unless you have eagle vision it’s going to be hard to see sometimes with 1440p on a 24" monitor

press windows key+x, choose settings. go to system, select your monitor (if you have multiple) and find the scaling just below. it should be set to 100%, turn that up to 125% or 150% and it should be fine, most of the time anyway. some programs don’t play nice with it unfortunately.

while you’re in the settings, double check that you’re actually running at 144hz. i’ve heard too many stories of people buying high refresh monitors and running them at 60hz. just scroll down to the bottom, select advanced display settings and it should say.

as far as i’m aware, if you’re within the refresh rate window your display supports (up to 144hz for yours), it does not matter if vsync is on or not. however, when you go above 144 fps, you lose gsync and you either get vsync on or off depending on your settings. it’s not very important.

anti-aliasing smoothes edges of objects, so you don’t get as many jaggies. post-process AA like FXAA and CMAA are basically free, but not massively impactful and some people find FXAA makes the image blurry.

hardware AA like MSAA is much more effective, but it is very taxing on the GPU. finally there’s SSAA, or supersampling/render scale/resolution scale. this renders everything in a higher resolution and then scales it down to the native resolution. this is the most effective method, but it is extremely taxing. if you run 200% resolution scale at 1440p, your gpu is rendering 5120x2880, or 4 times as many pixels as 1440p. i personally use 4x MSAA on a gtx 1080 at 1440p.

short “guide” for AA: start with 2x MSAA. if it’s not enough, do 4x, then 8x. if that’s not enough, start looking at supersampling. if 2x MSAA is too much for your graphics card, use post-processing AA. if you feel that post-processing AA makes it look bad, don’t use any AA.

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ohhh you are very cute ty!! I tried the 125% it looks like my older monitor!! but some apps and programmas are becoming blurry!! and its a bit annoying u know!

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try restarting the computer after turning on the scaling, it may help.

but yeah, i have some problems with the scaling as well, so it’s not perfect unfortunately.

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I have read around that it is a windows bug … they are unwilling to fix it -.-

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I tried the scaling a while ago and it is very bad… most icons and some text is soo blurry.

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well 2 days now my eyes are a biiiiiiit better hehe

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