NVIDIA has stopped recommending “V-Sync OFF” as a worldwide setting, beginning with its GeForce 461.09 WHQL drivers. The NVIDIA Control Panel utility, which lets customers configure global- and application-specific 3D settings, makes use of a tiny NVIDIA brand to indicate really useful settings. Its V-Sync settings let you choose between “Use 3D Application Settings,” international Off, international On, and “Adaptive V-Sync.”
NVIDIA explains that it modified this suggestion because the GeForce drivers since 461.09 help MPO (a number of aircraft overlay). Prior to 461.09, the Windows 10 DWM (desktop home windows supervisor) would composit the contents of all home windows right into a single aircraft and offered at show refresh-rate cadence, so tearing was averted even with V-Sync globally off. With MPO, functions are allowed to current their contents independently, every with their very own V-Sync setting. The OS, exterior of driver management, decides which apps get promoted to their very own MPO aircraft. This would result in screen-tearing if V-Sync is globally off, even in Windowed or Windowed-Maximized (pseudo-fullscreen) modes.
