smart move... hopefully my monitor gets approved, that'd be pretty neat.
I think when they talk about a small number of monitors being up to standard, simply means 'these handful of monitors are the only ones we could figure out how to easily get working with our cards...'
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Or these companies only paid us enough to let to approve them, its nvidia after all.
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Considering GSync is more or less FreeSync with a company logo on it, this was hardly a big effort. (Although that 12 out of 400 mark means their branding implementation works as splendid as GameWorks…) Also, the price markup they ask from manufacturers for Gsync monitors is ridiculous, so they are not really common. They probably want to get some actual detectable percentage of this gimmick (which is a pretty damn good gimmick, by the way, as long as you never dip below 60 Hertz, but preferably 100).
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(which is a pretty damn good gimmick, by the way, as long as you never dip below 60 Hertz, but preferably 100).
It works fine if you dip below 60. It stops to work once you pass a certain threshold, but that threshold is at like 40 or so (depending on the monitor).
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Sure, a little bit. But <60 with GSync is a hell of a lot better than <60 without it. When I got my GSync monitor I was playing a game that dipped below 60fps (don't remember which one right now). And the difference was quite amazing. I am one of these guys who even complain when a game drops to 58fps. Because it's very noticable (especially with VSync enabled, of course) and annoying. But with GSync enabled - not so much.
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I bet. I won that monitor in a Facebook contest so thats the reason my config doesnt match.
Might switch to AMD when I upgrade but I'm not sure. I'm kinda a Nvidia fanboy after a shitty experience with an AMD card.
Still a damn fine monitor without Freesync enabled.
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I am disappointed that there is not a single 21:9 monitor in that list.
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For gamers who have monitors that we have not yet tested, or that have failed validation, we’ll give you an option to manually enable VRR, too.
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/01/06/g-sync-displays-ces/
The big kicker that hasn't been reported: The certified 12 monitors don't matter. You can enable adaptive sync manually in the driver for any compatible monitor, so this is great news.
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Oh, well. Just nvidia getting desperate. Freesync is much cheaper, and for the end user, the results are about the same. And while gsync only works for nvidia graphic card owners, freesync works with everybody (or would, if you get past the nvidia drivers locking it out, as some users tinkering with the nvidia drivers managed to do already). So, with the 11 series burning, they are trying to lock the market.
And I say this as a happy nvidia graphic card owner, with a gsync monitor
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To be fair, without nV coming up with g-sync, FreeSync might not have ever seen the light of day as it was AMD's reaction to nV. Also, it is easy to glorify that AMD did not lock it to their hardware but considering their position on the market back then, they needed any pros they could get to sell their GPUs. Who knows what the situation would be like were the market shares reversed. :)
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It's more accurate to say that nVidia is rolling out support for A-Sync, or "VESA Adaptive Sync" when unabbreviated, and a public, royalty free hardware standard. Meaning, they'll make their drivers work with the hardware protocol instead of requiring their own proprietary hardware modules.
Freesync is what AMD calls their software components, which rely on the same hardware standards.
It's probably cheaper for nVidia to phase out their proprietary tech in favor of the open standards. And having a single standard makes things simpler for users/consumers too, so that's a win for us :)
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This is really cool of nVidia, hopefully this supports consumers in a way that more companies will follow with similar actions.
Happy cake day, KillingArts!
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Just in time, I saved up enough to build pc XD
I don't have monitor too.
Happy cake day ^^
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https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/1/7/18171631/nvidia-g-sync-support-freesync-monitors
That was unexpected. But it's a step in the right direction.
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