disabling something

I read on a thread here about a month and a half ago (cant find it) that fps can be limited on a game b/c some feature on windows and the game is enabled. They recommended disabling it to surpass this artificial ceiling for fps. Does anyone know what im talking about? Thanks.

 

Vertical Sync

 

How would you turn it off? Does it have any Cons to it?

 

it can usually just be turned off in the video settings of the game itself.

but if your computer cant run the game too well, you might see tearing in games.

v-sync is there so that it runs at a decent framerate without tearing.


someone tell me if im right.

 

Tearing has nothing to do with your computer not being able to run a game "too well". Tearing will occur whenever the frame rate is not a multiple of the screens natural refresh rate, and has nothing to do with system performance.

V-sync eliminates tearing by forcing the frame rate to a multiple of the refresh rate, which at times, may be limiting your framerates to a level lower than what your computer can actually handle.

 

basically i said that =(, it makes the game run better by usually lowering framerate.

 

It won't make the game RUN better, it'll just LOOK better, without tearing. Actually at a cost of performance...

BTW, you can force V-Sync off/on through the Nvidia Control Panel for all your games... I guess you can do it through the ATI panel aswell...