The lowest-latency G-Sync setup is the one that sounds wrong: V-Sync on in the driver, off in the game. Add a frame rate cap three FPS below your monitor's maximum and that is the whole configura
Windows does not automatically use your monitor's highest refresh rate — it picks a safe mode, sets 60Hz, and never mentions it again. That single behaviour accounts for most "my 144Hz monitor fe
Packet loss is the reason you get shot around a corner while your ping reads 25 ms. Ping measures how long a round trip takes; packet loss measures how many of those trips never complete at all.
If a game runs at 20 FPS on hardware that should manage 100, the most common cause is that Windows never handed it to your real graphics card. Your system has two GPUs — the integrated one inside
**Discord sitting idle in the background costs you almost nothing. Discord with the in-game overlay active costs a few percent. Discord screen sharing at 1080p60 while you play is a different questio
A 15ms ping measured on an idle connection tells you almost nothing about how the game feels while someone else in the house is streaming. On a lot of home connections that same link measures 200
