First post, by bestemor
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So, while looking to upgrade my ancient monitor, to my dismay it seems that Windows 7 does not do 'software' G-sync, as in needing VRR support or whatever which is only found in Windows 10 and up...
https://winraid.level1techs.com/t/help-me-pic … or-win7/37792/9
Apparantly Windows 7 needs the monitor to have the hardware chip embedded for it to work. And after much googling I stumbled onto this disappointing page:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products … monitors/specs/
Where all(?) the 'good'* models seem to be unavailable for actual purchase anymore, or have recently gone into the post sale price hike stage.
(...after prices dropping for a long while, now suddenly have doubled or worse, due to availability etc, the oh-so-annoying bath tub curve)
*: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products … -sync-monitors/
...where the G-sync compatible ones are software only, which is supposedly useless in Windows 7.
Anyone know how to work around this obstacle ?
Know which good IPS models still exist in normal sale/with non-inflated prices ? (I'll even consider checking out 'luxury' models)
I did find this one here, but.... at £1000/$1300 😫 (and it is not in stock anywhere anyways):
- Or is G-sync not really that important when pushing 100-200 frames with a somewhat underpowered CPU/overpowered GPU ?
(me having an RTX 3600 I wanna use for this, which I assume does not work with 'Freesync' or whatnot)
I have never tried using G-sync, or even played a modern game of late, so my experience on this topic is sadly lacking.