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Acer 28" 4K inbound
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Yeah, it seems like it should. But I believe there is more to it. Some games have aliasing issues on certain things but fantastic in other places. Crisis 3, unity, and gta5 are all guilty. There is more to it, but a 28in 4k screen, that is extremely dense. First hand, I have never seen a screen that dense. But I have seen some screens with high density and aliasing was apparent. Depending on the game and the scene.

As for Gsync, in the games I have played, the ability of lower frame rates being smooth is very real. It impressed me far more than anything else. But it's only up to a point. See, I say 30s but hat is also where it starts breaking down. Mid 30s and upper 30s are great. Keep going down, from 35 and the magic stops. When your frame rates are struggling at 30-32, hitching happens. It is not where you want to be. I believe the Gsync solution is to double the frames displayed things start going slow and it works well. But I think the low 30s - high 20s is another divide point, one that is pretty worthless. It's just beyond hope at that point. Gsync isn't able to produce a great experience there.

Crazy is what happens there. See, if I lock the frame rate on a game that gets good framers the anyway, lock that game at 30fps and it is fine. But turning settings up so intense that the frame rate suffers into the low 31-32fps, it's hitching and stutter city. It may be that some of these frame times are longer and Gsync is struggling beyond its limit. It's not really the low 30s that break it, a game that is running something like 38fps, 40, 35, 36, 32, 35, 34, 36, etc will be fine. Really good. But if it's struggling at low 30s the whole time, it's a mess,

At least on the games I have tried.

But, a game like batman AK with its locked 30fps cap, somehow it is butter smooth.
No joke, smooth at 30fps. It's kind of crazy.

The only thing I can figure is that when gaming at settings that intense cause some frame times to be long and then Gsync can't do anything with it.

So, back to batman AK. It is a really really fun game. My son and I have been playing it. I tried unlocking the frame cap, it's just a mess like that. Totally broken. Frame cap on 30 is alright, especially with Gsync. I actually turned it up to 40 just because, I have a hard time stomaching 30fps because of nothing but conditioning. So it's max frame rate is 40fps, which is quite smooth and fun. There is the occasional stutter and hitching from the broken game engine, but they are not consistent and their randomness hasn't taken away the fun level.
This is one of the worst performing PC games in awhile. They even halted selling the game until it is fixed. But it is actually quite fun for us, even in its broken state. And perhaps that is due to Gsync.

See, Gsync is great. It's more than a solution for tearing. But it can't smooth out broken game engines. What it can do is make lower fps feel much smoother and be more responsive.

The hitching in batman AK is severe at times with an unlocked frame cap. The frame cap reduces to a rare non issue. The hitching in watchdogs was much longer pauses and far to often.

I really love Gsync and now that I know what it does at lower fps, what it feels like, I am not so afraid of getting a higher resolution monitor.
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Acer 28" 4K inbound - by RolloTheGreat - 06-29-2015, 11:33 PM
RE: Acer 28" 4K inbound - by ocre - 06-30-2015, 07:42 AM
RE: Acer 28" 4K inbound - by RolloTheGreat - 06-30-2015, 09:11 AM
RE: Acer 28" 4K inbound - by ocre - 07-01-2015, 08:35 AM
RE: Acer 28" 4K inbound - by RolloTheGreat - 07-01-2015, 09:34 AM
RE: Acer 28" 4K inbound - by ocre - 07-01-2015, 12:36 PM
RE: Acer 28" 4K inbound - by RolloTheGreat - 07-01-2015, 05:30 PM
RE: Acer 28" 4K inbound - by SteelCrysis - 07-01-2015, 09:32 PM
RE: Acer 28" 4K inbound - by RolloTheGreat - 07-01-2015, 11:27 PM
RE: Acer 28" 4K inbound - by ocre - 07-02-2015, 05:56 AM
RE: Acer 28" 4K inbound - by RolloTheGreat - 07-02-2015, 05:16 PM
RE: Acer 28" 4K inbound - by ocre - 07-03-2015, 07:28 AM
RE: Acer 28" 4K inbound - by RolloTheGreat - 07-03-2015, 05:29 PM
RE: Acer 28" 4K inbound - by ocre - 07-03-2015, 10:46 PM
RE: Acer 28" 4K inbound - by RolloTheGreat - 07-04-2015, 03:41 AM
RE: Acer 28" 4K inbound - by ocre - 07-05-2015, 12:26 AM
RE: Acer 28" 4K inbound - by RolloTheGreat - 07-06-2015, 12:16 AM
RE: Acer 28" 4K inbound - by RolloTheGreat - 07-04-2015, 08:31 AM

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