Vertical sync not working

[pvt. partz 248]

My monitor has a range of 49 to 100 hz refresh rate. I have been experimenting with custom resolutions and set one of them to 50 hz. When I set ArmA in game settings to VS enabled, the game won't limit the fps to 50. They're still unlimited.

Any ideas?

 

"My ArmA config is not set to read only"

"setting my Nvidia panel to default still has same results"

[stanhope 411]

Use a 3rd party program to limit your FPS?  It's what I do. 

[pvt. partz 248]

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Use a 3rd party program to limit your FPS

 

I have MSI/Riva Tuner and experimented with the limiter but nah.

that's just a work around but still doesn't give a smooth result.

I had it working so well but at a refresh rate of 60. The problem was there were a few times when I couldn't quite keep 60fps and it would start to feel a bit choppy, thus my playing around with the 50hz option.

 

...so I'm still wanting to know why it seems that VS simply doesn't take in ArmA.

 

WOOPS! VS in Full Screen Windowed only? Works with that setting enabled, go figure. Never knew that.

 

So........Full screen vertical sync is broken then?

[pvt. partz 248]

A little bump.

 

[maquez 141]

try set your monitor to 59 or 60 hz, vsynch should work then

[pvt. partz 248]

1 hour ago, maquez said:

try set your monitor to 59 or 60 hz, vsynch should work then

 

...tried that, no go 😞

[maquez 141]

by the way Arma 3 runs not really smooth with vsynch enabled, fps can drop quite heavy depends on map location and mission design

if your monitor has no configuration menu where you can set refresh rate
try to force it with Nvidia Control Panel custom resolution:

Nvidia Control Panel

[haleks 8212]

@pvt. partz: This can be caused by your OS.

I'm on windows7, and the "aero" theme has to be enabled for v-sync to work at all. Maybe you're having a similar issue?

[pvt. partz 248]

W10 pro

I'll check when I get home

Who would have thought!

... Besides Microsoft naturally

But to your point, VS does work in full-screen windowed mode. Just not in full screen.

 

[pvt. partz 248]

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I'm on windows7, and the "aero" theme has to be enabled for v-sync to work at all. Maybe you're having a similar issue?

 

...Finally got time to check this.

Seems W10 does not have a "aero" theme any longer...well, you can get it by other means but it is not a simple enable/disable function.

so still no go. Ive tried my best to think of anything that I changed that broke this for me but nothing.

 

Edit

...so I rebuilt my config, no fixy

...restored the Nvidia control panel display settings to factory and , it FIXED! Could there be a setting in there that stops Vsync from working in full screen. Who the heck knows.