How to enable NVIDIA G-Sync on your PC

NVIDIA G-Sync will help you game tear-free, so here’s how you enable the feature on your PC or laptop.

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NVIDIA G-Sync is a technology licensed out by the GPU maker to companies making displays thebest computer monitorsand laptop displays. In a nutshell, it provides silky smooth, tear-free gaming by allowing the monitor and GPU to talk to each other.

The display draws every frame outputted by the GPU, and this variable refresh rate ensures no tears during gameplay. It is, however, not enabled by magic as soon as you hook up a G-Sync display. There’s some mild setup involved, but the good news is that as long as you’ve at least installed drivers once for your NVIDIA GPU, you won’t have any additional software to install.

How to enable G-Sync on your PC

The first thing to do is to make sure you actually turn on the G-Sync setting on your PC.

How to use G-Sync in your PC games

To use G-Sync in your games, you’ll also need to set your monitor as your primary display in this same control panel if you’re using multiple monitors.

If you need to make it your primary display then follow these steps.

Now when you game you’ll have crisp, tear-free on-screen action. Simple!

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