Refresh rate higher than fps?

VGT

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What happens if a frame rate is lower than the refresh rate of the monitor, for example,

In theory, say I were to own a GTX 770 playing skyrim at a framerate of 80fps and a
monitor with a refresh rate of 144hz.

A. What would happen to the actual gameplay?

B. If anything, are there any solutions to the problem.

The reason why I ask is because I cannot find a straight answer on the internet.
The majority of questions asked are "What if the fps is higher than the refresh rate?"

But what if it was the other way around?
 

Uh, no. There may be some minor tearing where the frame update and refresh are not in perfect sync but otherwise nothing bad will happen. Slide show will happen when frame update rate drops to a very low value. Screen refresh rate has nothing to do with that.
 

Also no. Screen refresh rate has nothing to do with frame update rate. If refresh rate is < frame update rate you get tearing, sometimes severe, depending on the mismatch. Static images or slideshows only occur when the frame update rate is very low.
 


Not refresh rate but providing by video card FPS, monitor refresh rate is static
 


If your video card provides 90FPS you'll see 90FPS with 120Hz monitor but on 60Hz monitor you'll see only 60FPS
and if your GPU provides 40FPS you'll see 40FPS but on your 120Hz monitor, refresh rate would be everytime 120Hz
 

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