Vsync on or off for a smooth and better gaming experience?

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4790k@4.00ghz
Gigabyte h97m-d3h
G1 gaming gtx970@1440mhz
16gb ram + 256gb ssd + 1tb hdd
A typical 1080p, 60hz monitor, 27"
Windows 7 ultimate 64bits

I found its quite frustrating as I am the kind of person who cannot tolerate stuttering/lag....:( I am still confused whether I should turn vsync on or off for a better gaming experience. Below is my problems:

Vsync on: The game is silky smooth if it's at 60fps but I notice obvious stuttering for even a few fps drop, e.g. from 60 to 57....I should not have noticed lag with a few fps drop

Vsync off: even my fps is at 9x, I still feel it's more lag/choppy than with vsync on, don't know why (it happens in both fullscreen/borderless window)

What's the best way to game on pc? Should I turn triple buffering on? What about capping my fps at 60 thru RTSS + vsync?

Thank you so much guys, my English is not very good, I will try hard to explain in case you don't understand.
 
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Adaptive Vsync only causes screen tearing if your FPS is below 60. Just adjust your game settings slightly to ensure that you don't dip below 60. If you do that either Vsync or Adaptive will provide smooth gameplay with no tearing.

I usually use regular Vsync for single player games and turn it off when I am playing competitive multiplayer games. I strongly prefer the way a game looks with Vsync enabled but it creates a slight input delay that can hurt you in fast paced competitive games.

The advantage to Adaptive Vsync is that some games will drop all the way down to 30 FPS with standard Vsync enabled if you can't maintain 60 FPS. This is a bummer if you...
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I have this same issue TC while others I've talked to don't... I guess it's luck of the draw between GPU and monitor some tearing/stutter will be more noticeable on some setups. I have to basically use VSYNC on most games I play otherwise I get choppy gameplay and I can't stand it. You can run windowed mode and limit your FPS to 60 as a bandaid fix until you can afford FREESYNC. Now in my case limiting frame rate just adds more screen tearing and running in windowed mode while limiting frame rate causes more stutter so play around until you find the sweet spot.

Also freesync is NOT expensive technology like GSYNC, you can get a nice 24" freesync panel for around $250-300 which is really cheap considering you get 144hz, 1ms in the same package. This is the panel I have been looking at and recently was going for $250 so keep an eye on it if you get the cash:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824116782

The variable refresh frequency on it is 48-144hz so it puts it in the ballpark for AMD's Low Frame Compensation so if you drop below 48FPS it won't disable freesync, very useful and imo a must have for freesync.

 
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I also want to change my monitor
It's 27" 1080p and the pixel is too large that cause "blurry"
But I believe freesync is amd technology there's no way to sell my gtx970 to buy an amd card :(
 
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Yeah I figured as much it also makes games stutter for me when I do that but I figured I would throw it out there since it seems to work for some. Your only option is VSYNC and/or FREESYNC or deal with it. I know it sucks, I'm in the same boat 90% of my games stutter or have nasty screen tear and the only thing that works for me is VSYNC that's why I'm investing in a monitor, I suggest the same for you.

/edit didn't see you had an NVIDIA GPU sorry mate. Yeah that sucks I will agree GSYNC is too expensive but theres reasons for it, it uses its own chip which makes ghosting a non issue unlike freesync and it has 0-144hz variable refresh unlike AMD so it works from 0fps to 144, so in a sense it's worth it.

If it bothers you that much use adaptive VSYNC or sell the 970 and buy a 390 like I did lol.
 
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I'm planning to pick up an amd card for next gen, considering amd card outperform its counterpart in recent games implementing dx12, e.g. 390 vs 970 in farcry primal/hitman/quantum break....etc

I'm still waiting for the next gen to decide picking up amd or nvidia...and I wouldn't be buying a 1080p monitor...the next one I'll buy will be 1440p or ultrawide....

Thanks for your comment tho bro, I still find the stuttering caused by fps drop with vsync is so annoying
 
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Adaptive Vsync only causes screen tearing if your FPS is below 60. Just adjust your game settings slightly to ensure that you don't dip below 60. If you do that either Vsync or Adaptive will provide smooth gameplay with no tearing.

I usually use regular Vsync for single player games and turn it off when I am playing competitive multiplayer games. I strongly prefer the way a game looks with Vsync enabled but it creates a slight input delay that can hurt you in fast paced competitive games.

The advantage to Adaptive Vsync is that some games will drop all the way down to 30 FPS with standard Vsync enabled if you can't maintain 60 FPS. This is a bummer if you are capable of maintaining 57 FPS but regular Vsync is putting you at 30. It can also be a problem if you are right on the edge. If you are getting FPS that is very close to the cutoff you might constantly be jumping back and forth between 30 and 60 FPS. This will be very noticeable.

Adaptive Vsync works by only enabling Vsync when you are above 60 FPS. This means that in areas where performance dips a little you might lose Vsync momentarily and stay at 57 FPS instead of keeping Vsync active and dropping all the way down to 30.
 
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