vertical synchronization
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Sep 16, 2026
John LinnemanHOST
Yeah, this is a tricky one, and I don't think...
John LinnemanHOST
So the frame pacing issue we've always talked about is due to, uh, capping the frame rate below the VSync or the s- the refresh rate.
John LinnemanHOST
So you're gonna see it if you're at 30 FPS in a 60 hertz container, or 60 hertz... 60 FPS in a 120 hertz container if the game doesn't perform it correctly.
John LinnemanHOST
And because 60 FPS has become so more prevalent this generation, it feels like we haven't seen it as often, but it does still creep up.
John LinnemanHOST
But the games themselves, if they don't support it, will not actually use it.
John LinnemanHOST
You just get a Vsync'd presentation.
Rich LeadbetterHOST
Mm-hmm.
John LinnemanHOST
So I tried a bunch of different games like this.
John LinnemanHOST
In handheld it's great, but in docked mode it was never great because it's like 100 to 120-ish, right? So it's always kinda unstable, so you get judder.
John LinnemanHOST
Even with VRR enabled, it's the same.
John LinnemanHOST
You get the same judder, same Vsync presentation, so it's clearly not working there.
John LinnemanHOST
Uh, then I went over to Capcom's games, stuff like Onimusha, Resident Evil: Requiem, which again, uh, they...
TonyHOST
Well, they're gonna do eight players split screen on this, right?
JarenPANELIST
... double buffered VSync, so I, I don't know.
TonyHOST
That's gonna be wild.
JarenPANELIST
Um, Xbox continues to destroy Game Pass value.
DannyHOST
Uh, but yeah, I, I just wouldn't r- I wouldn't recommend Zone of Enders: The 2nd Runner on PC.
DannyHOST
Um, especially given that, uh, it, unless you do the Vsync off, the frame rate, or, or like game speed is tied to frame rate.
DannyHOST
But, uh, even without that, it's just not that great of a game.
AustinHOST
Yeah.
FrankHOST
Obviously, they're aware of this, and this is the biggest game ever.
FrankHOST
How polished will this game be? How many bugs will there be? Will it run on everyone's video card on PC that is complaining about vSync on their specific video card and CPU setup? Well,
SeanHOST
that's why they're not launching on PC, right? Oh, they're not? Okay, good.
FrankHOST
Fuck them.
FightinCowboyGUEST
It was almost like an artificial...
FightinCowboyGUEST
Like you know how like when you, if you don't have VSync or G-Sync or anything on how you get like a screen tear?
RurikhanHOST
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
FightinCowboyGUEST
I was, I was, frame interpolation was generating a screen tear like that.
Michael HannonHOST
I think I've resolved patch 1.0.2, I think resolved a good amount of it.
Michael HannonHOST
And then I think me changing my VSync from on to adaptive helped a whole lot.
Michael HannonHOST
But there's still that kind of stuff of like, But this game didn't come in hot with 1.0. Like, it's in a really good spot, but kind of have to keep patching it and, like, smoothing out a lot of the kind of outlying performance issues, which they'll get to over time.
Michael HannonHOST
I think every patch they've come out with over the last couple weeks has been... like a big step forward which i think is really good and like each one of their passion notes is just like dozens and dozens and dozens of uh like weird outlet out uh lying edge case bugs which i think is really good um so Fields of Mystery is really great.
DannyHOST
And my monitor is 165 hertz.
DannyHOST
If you turn on Vsync, and the game originally is supposed to be 60 frames per second, I believe.
DannyHOST
If you turn on Vsync, which is supposed to synchronize the frame rate of the game to the frame rate of your monitor...
DannyHOST
Because game speed is tied to frame rate for some reason, the game now plays at 165 over 60, which is about 2.75x speed.
DannyHOST
But just in weird ways.
BradHOST
[laughs] Like, I don't, I don't think they're building new infrastructure just for 2XKO.
TerrenceHOST
S- so, and also the other big issue I had with the game when it first came out was, like, they turned off VSync because they wanted the, the, the lowest amount of input lag as possible.
BradHOST
Mm-hmm.
TerrenceHOST
But in having it not on, there was a ton of screen tearing to the point where I was like-
TerrenceHOST
That's how bad it was.
TerrenceHOST
Um, so I just stopped playing it.
BradHOST
Yeah, not, not having VSync is only-
TerrenceHOST
I think they have since fixed it.
Rich LeadbetterHOST
Um, there's also been some discussion recently about frame generation, um, frame pacing because it, it's been a perennial issue with AMD, and it does seem to be the case now that there are solutions for it or fixes for it.
Rich LeadbetterHOST
Um, there's a good video that's been recently put out by Hardware Unboxed on the issue where, you know, th- there are still issues there, but it seems to be the case that, for example, um, turning on VSync in the control panel e- even though you're using VRR seems to help a great deal there.
Rich LeadbetterHOST
But there's other reports saying it only works well with, uh, in certain scenarios or on certain, um, displays, so that needs to be sorted out.
Rich LeadbetterHOST
But nonetheless, I just think the concept of, um, going back to a three-year-old game and adding support for features that basically probably, you know, should have received them a lot sooner, it's a, it's a pretty good thing, right, John? Yeah, I, I like this kind of stuff, and it's interesting.
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