Best settings for Adaptive Sync and Vsync?

[Galadrion]

Hey guys, I'm using a RTX 3070 and a Freesync and Gsync compatible monitor. I did some research and most people recommend to activate g-sync and vsync in the Nvidia Control Panel but deactivate vsync in the Video Game settings and setting the max frame rate a little bit lower than the max refresh rate of your monitor.
With other games it seems to work fine but with Halo Infinite i have some serious stuttering issues especially in the campaign (frame drops from 100 to 59fps for example). Even if the framerate seems to be pretty stable some stuttering comes up. During cutscenes with camera movement it's especially noticable. I ran some ghosting and sync problems tests but it seems like the syncing of my monitor and the GPU works just fine.
Anybody has some similar issues and maybe found the sweet spot for smooth stuttering free gameplay? Any help would be great

[Taposo]

Try to not cap the fps, just let it run on e.g. 60Hz/60fps, 120Hz/120fps. On some monitors/games the F/G sync not working properly when you using fps cap bellow the monitor native refresh rate. And set the G-sync to run with windowed mode because the game only running borderless windowed mode only. Any way whats your pc spec. ?

[Galadrion]

Hey Taposo my current pc specs:
-Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit (Build 19042)
-CPU Intel i7-8700k (running at around 4,4GHz for each core)
-GPU Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 FE
-32 GB RAM
-HP x27c Monitor
So basically the native max refresh rate of the monitor is 165Hz but I set the refresh rate to 144Hz (Windows Monitor settings). So you would recommend me to turn off the min and max fps cap in the game settings completely but keep the gsync and vsync options on in the nvidia control panel?
Gsync is already enabled for windowed applications. Thank you very much for taking the time to help me out :)

[FeilDOW]

I run freesync compatible with a 3080 on my 5120x1440 Samsung g9 and I have all vsync turned offmand just running freesync with my FPS capped at 119.

I never run vsync with free/gsync and it work beautifully every time, I'd think vsync this would add axtra latency. It that or your hitting a CPU limitation, what CPU are you running with the 3070 and what resolution you playing at?

[FeilDOW]

Originally posted by Galadrion:

Hey Taposo my current pc specs:
-Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit (Build 19042)
-CPU Intel i7-8700k (running at around 4,4GHz for each core)
-GPU Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 FE
-32 GB RAM
-HP x27c Monitor
So basically the native max refresh rate of the monitor is 165Hz but I set the refresh rate to 144Hz (Windows Monitor settings). So you would recommend me to turn off the min and max fps cap in the game settings completely but keep the gsync and vsync options on in the nvidia control panel?
Gsync is already enabled for windowed applications. Thank you very much for taking the time to help me out :)

Have you watched your CPU and GPU usage during FPS drops and stutters? My 8700k is oc'ed to 5.0 on all cores and I see no CPU limitation but you could be hitting one with a stock 8700k at 1080p.

[langly]

It's frametime stutters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCj2wEi80zA&t=210s

[Galadrion]

Originally posted by FeilDOW:

I run freesync compatible with a 3080 on my 5120x1440 Samsung g9 and I have all vsync turned offmand just running freesync with my FPS capped at 119.

I never run vsync with free/gsync and it work beautifully every time, I'd think vsync this would add axtra latency. It that or your hitting a CPU limitation, what CPU are you running with the 3070 and what resolution you playing at?

Hi FeilDOW, I just play at FullHD 1920x1080. I will watch my CPU usage but i can tell you that my GPU isn't at the limit. It seems like the stuttering is not connected to my GPU usage, because the stuttering seems to be stronger during cutscenes meanwhile the GPU usage is lower during the cutscenes.
So in Nvidia Control Panel you have GSync turned on and vsync turned off? Where did you cap your fps to 119? In the Windows Monitor settings, in the Nvidia Control Panel or in the game?

[CTsixthsense]

No matter what you try, halo infinite just needs a patch. the frame pacing and stutter is in the game itself. even if you are going to lock the games frame rate or use gsync or freesync.
it's still broken

[FeilDOW]

Originally posted by Galadrion:

Originally posted by FeilDOW:

I run freesync compatible with a 3080 on my 5120x1440 Samsung g9 and I have all vsync turned offmand just running freesync with my FPS capped at 119.

I never run vsync with free/gsync and it work beautifully every time, I'd think vsync this would add axtra latency. It that or your hitting a CPU limitation, what CPU are you running with the 3070 and what resolution you playing at?

Hi FeilDOW, I just play at FullHD 1920x1080. I will watch my CPU usage but i can tell you that my GPU isn't at the limit. It seems like the stuttering is not connected to my GPU usage, because the stuttering seems to be stronger during cutscenes meanwhile the GPU usage is lower during the cutscenes.
So in Nvidia Control Panel you have GSync turned on and vsync turned off? Where did you cap your fps to 119? In the Windows Monitor settings, in the Nvidia Control Panel or in the game?

I use RivaTuner that comes with afterburner to cap my FPS and Afterburner to OC and set up the OSD so I can see my permance metrics while playing.

You want your GPU to be the limiting factor so its best running at 99% the issue is when your CPU usage goes up and and can't feed the GPU drawcalls and GPU usage drops causing stutters and FPS drops.

[Galadrion]

Originally posted by langly:

It's frametime stutters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCj2wEi80zA&t=210s

well according to digital foundry the best way is to either turn on external vsync (guess vsync from nvidia control panel) and deactivate any frame limitation in the game settings or to cap your monitor frames and use the internal frame cap with DSR

[CTsixthsense]

But this still doesn't fix the frame pacing issues, you can't fix it until a patch comes out. 120 fps still looks like 40 fps. with or without gsync/vsync/freesync it's all crap.

Originally posted by Galadrion:

Originally posted by langly:

It's frametime stutters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCj2wEi80zA&t=210s

well according to digital foundry the best way is to either turn on external vsync (guess vsync from nvidia control panel) and deactivate any frame limitation in the game settings or to cap your monitor frames and use the internal frame cap with DSR

[Galadrion]

Originally posted by FeilDOW:

Originally posted by Galadrion:

Hey Taposo my current pc specs:
-Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit (Build 19042)
-CPU Intel i7-8700k (running at around 4,4GHz for each core)
-GPU Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 FE
-32 GB RAM
-HP x27c Monitor
So basically the native max refresh rate of the monitor is 165Hz but I set the refresh rate to 144Hz (Windows Monitor settings). So you would recommend me to turn off the min and max fps cap in the game settings completely but keep the gsync and vsync options on in the nvidia control panel?
Gsync is already enabled for windowed applications. Thank you very much for taking the time to help me out :)

Have you watched your CPU and GPU usage during FPS drops and stutters? My 8700k is oc'ed to 5.0 on all cores and I see no CPU limitation but you could be hitting one with a stock 8700k at 1080p.

Just tried it this weekend and the CPU actually never hits concerning peaks. Most of the time the CPU is less used than the GPU and it never jumped above 80%