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Enable G-Sync on a FreeSync Monitor

YOU’LL NEED THIS

A FREESYNC COMPATIBLE MONITOR

Stating the obvious, but this doesn’t work with just any panel; you need FreeSync on your screen’s specs.

GRAPHICS CARD

An Nvidia RTX 20-series or GTX 10-series GPU.

Sometimes games produce screen tearing and stuttering. They don’t mean to, it’s just a function of the way your graphics card and monitor interact—GPU spews out frames as quickly as it can, monitor uses those frames at a set refresh rate, gamer looks on at torn images in frustration. This being the wonderfully infuriating world of personal computers, it’s the solution that proves far more complex. V-Sync is the simplest band-aid over frame pacing issues, telling your GPU at the software level to only provide as many frames per second as the current refresh

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