Different types of compatibility with NVIDIA G-SYNC
When we use our PC to play, it would be very useful for us to have technologies that help us obtain maximum performance for gaming. This can be achieved with G-SYNC, which allows you to synchronize the images sent by your NVIDIA graphics card to your monitor, although there is also the free version developed by AMD and called FreeSync. In this small guide, we will see how to know if my Monitor is compatible with G-SYNC.
NVIDIA has several options available when it comes to G-SYNC, there are monitors that have a specific NVIDIA G-SYNC module making itself noticed and using this technology through specific hardware.
But since 2019 NVIDIA released the ability to use G-SYNC on monitors compatible with FreeSync, which in turn is based on the Adaptive Sync standard, this has made many monitors compatible, but not certified. NVIDIA, when it released this technology, certified some monitors that do not have this hardware as compatible with NVIDIA G-SYNC, this guarantees that the technology works on this monitor. But if your monitor is compatible with Adaptive Sync you can also use G-SYNC, although without guarantees.
If you have a monitor with NVIDIA G-SYNC hardware, which are usually much more expensive, you don't need to check anything, it will just work. Otherwise, you will have to check that your monitor is compatible with FreeSync or Adaptive Sync, which is the standard on which G-SYNC is based in order to work, whether certified or not. The difference between a monitor certified and compatible with NVIDIA G-SYNC is that the certificate assures us that this technology will work, although one that is not certified and is simply compatible also works.
The main requirement to use NVIDIA G-SYNC in any of its versions is that your graphics card is NVIDIA, you will not be able to activate G-SYNC if you have an AMD, Intel, or one integrated into the CPU graphics card.
Check if your monitor is compatible with G-SYNC
If your monitor has NVIDIA G-SYNC hardware, simply enable it on your monitor and in the control panel as indicated below. If you want to see if it is compatible or certified, we must ensure that our monitor complies with the VESA Adaptive Sync standard. Simply with this, our monitor will be compatible with G-SYNC, even if it is not certified or does not have the specific NVIDIA hardware.
To check this, the easiest thing is to search among the specifications of our monitor. To do this, we can go to the manufacturer's website looking for the exact model and looking at its characteristics. We can also turn to the manual or the box if we still have them and look at the different features shown. It is also a good option to look between the different OSD options of the monitor, to activate it we must find Adaptive Sync or FreeSync would also be valid, which is based on the same Adaptive Sync standard, but renamed by AMD.
If we do not find this information through these means we can resort to forcibly checking, this consists of trying to enable G-SYNC directly from the NVIDIA control panel. If we can enable it, our monitor is compatible and we can start using this option, otherwise, it will not be compatible.
To activate the G-SYNC option we will have to follow these steps:
- We right-click on the desktop and select NVIDIA Control Panel, if we use Windows 11 we will have to click on Show More Options to see it.
- Now we click on the Configure G-SYNC option.
- Now we have to make sure that the option Activate G-SYNC, G-SYNC compatibility is checked and select if we only want to use it with full screen or also with window mode.
- Next, and only if we have multiple monitors, we select the one we want to activate G-SYNC on
- Now we check the box Activate settings for the selected display model.
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