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AMD freesync (disabling the sync) will it work like a normal screen on Nvidia?

TENTINGTENTING Member UncommonPosts: 262
edited January 2017 in Hardware
I am in no way Tech knowledgeable, so I need your advice.

 I am considering a new screen some time in the future, but I keep coming across Samsungs with AMD freesync and Acer Predators with Nvidia Gsync.

 Samsungs having the better design (imo) and being half the price of an Acer screen, I am wondering if its possible to run a Samsung screen along with an Nvidia card. (As long as I disable the AMD Freesync option).
Will the screen then work just like any other screen?

Wont be any software/hardware issues? 

I dont need the sync/ FPS to adjust to refresh rate, since I only really play MMORPGs and not on any competitive lvl.
But is that the only thing that the sync does?   

Its a little hard to explain, hope you guys understand what I am asking. :3  

Comments

  • VrikaVrika Member LegendaryPosts: 7,973
    Yes it will work. GSync and FreeSync are both optional extras. If you don't want to use them, all graphic cards and monitors will always work fine without them.

    On a more general level, any graphic card you can buy today will work with any monitor or TV you can buy today. The technology is so standardized you'd have to go to a museum to find parts that won't work together.
     
  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,483
    Yes, it will still work, and you don't even need to specifically disable anything.  Adaptive sync is an industry standard, and FreeSync is just AMD's implementation of it.  The only real compatibility issue is monitor ports, and Vrika exaggerates a little on compatibility there, but only a little.  And it's easy to check to make sure that they have the corresponding ports.
  • Dagon13Dagon13 Member UncommonPosts: 566
    The syncing technologies help smooth your game play when you're not able to game at the monitor's native refresh rate.   If you've ever been annoyed by screen tearing or stuttering in your games, the syncing may help with that.  As usual, the user experience varies from the improvement being unnoticeable to it being the greatest advancement to date.

    Note that you may be paying a premium for a monitor with these technologies, albeit a lower one with FreeSync.
  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,483
    Dagon13 said:
    The syncing technologies help smooth your game play when you're not able to game at the monitor's native refresh rate.   If you've ever been annoyed by screen tearing or stuttering in your games, the syncing may help with that.  As usual, the user experience varies from the improvement being unnoticeable to it being the greatest advancement to date.

    Note that you may be paying a premium for a monitor with these technologies, albeit a lower one with FreeSync.
    If you build a monitor with modern, high quality parts, that it happens to support FreeSync comes for free.  A cheap junk monitor can't support it, nor can a good monitor with older parts before the adaptive sync standard was ready.  It's G-sync where you pay a premium, as instead of just using whatever parts you would have used anyway to build the monitor, you have to add an extra module purchased from Nvidia for $100, and that gets passed along to the consumer with additional markups made along the way.
  • VolgoreVolgore Member EpicPosts: 3,872
    TENTING said:

    (As long as I disable the AMD Freesync option).
    Will the screen then work just like any other screen?

    Wont be any software/hardware issues? 

    I dont need the sync/ FPS to adjust to refresh rate, since I only really play MMORPGs and not on any competitive lvl.
    But is that the only thing that the sync does?   


    I have a monitor that comes with AMD freesync and i'm using a Nvidia card.

    I did not had to disable anything, it works right out of the box like every other regular videocard<->monitor setup.

    My monitor is labeled as a 60Hz/75Hz(Freesync), that means that i could only hit 75Hz when i would use freesync with a AMD card.
    With my NVidia card, it is a regular 60Hz monitor.

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