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Saw this in an article about adaptive vsync:
I'm not quite sure whether to believe this or not. I've been gaming with vsync on for many a year and I never saw framerates drop from 60 straight down to 30. I never felt such a drop, and I never saw anything like that any of the times I used a tool that showed me what my current framerate was. I didn't always have powerful hardware either... I gamed on a damn 8500gt for a while with vsync on, you'd think if this were true about vsync my framerate would have been tripping over itself all over the place.
The problem with turning VSync on is that the framerate is locked to multiples of 60. If the framerate drops even just a little below 60 FPS VSync will drop all the way from 60 FPS to 30 FPS. This is a huge drop in framerate, and that large change in framerate becomes noticeable to the gamer. The result is called stuttering, and when you are playing a game that consistently changes between only 30 and 60 FPS, the game speeds up and slows down and you feel this difference and it distracts from the gameplay experience. What's worse is that if the framerate drops ever so slightly below 30 FPS the next step down for VSync is 20 FPS, and then the next step down is 15 FPS.
I'm not quite sure whether to believe this or not. I've been gaming with vsync on for many a year and I never saw framerates drop from 60 straight down to 30. I never felt such a drop, and I never saw anything like that any of the times I used a tool that showed me what my current framerate was. I didn't always have powerful hardware either... I gamed on a damn 8500gt for a while with vsync on, you'd think if this were true about vsync my framerate would have been tripping over itself all over the place.