Enable Adaptive V-Sync

How do I enable adaptive V-Sync on a 680m with Nvidia Inspector?

 

I think they dropped that function a while back maye drivers 302~ but under power management mode of the nvidia control panel you can select adaptive, I assume they might have moved the feature here. So enable vsync triple buffering and change power management mode to adaptive.

 

No actually adaptive power mode and adaptive vsync are different things. The adaptive power mode is for auto down-clocking the GPU when it's not being taxed that much to save on power and reduce heat etc.

 

So can I turn it on or not?

 

If its available I would turn it on, otherwise the newer drivers 310.90 is the latest it doesn't show for me (gtx 680m). For absolute performance leave it off, but if you want to save a bit of power/less heat then use it , otherwise use the adaptive power management mode to achieve a similar effect I guess.

 

DDDenniZZZ you are clearly confused... Adaptive power management is essentially used to just save some power and gain some battery life. It has nothing to do with frame rates really. Adaptive vsync is a feature that turns vsync on when the framerate goes above 60 fps and then turns it off when it drops below so that your frames arent halved to 30 FPS if you cant hit 60. It does almost the same thing as enabling vsync with triple buffering, but it doesnt take up the extra VRAM that trip buff does.

With a 4GB card i dont see much of a point for adaptive vsync. With a 2 GB card it will serve a purpose with a select few games and heavily modified skyrim. When it was enabled it was buggy and caused some stutter when it flicked on and off. Trip buff + vsync is buttery smooth

 

I think it's this one:

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