NVIDIA G-Sync Pulsar monitor - Asus ROG Strix XG27AQNGV

[toyosenpai]

Precisely that
The raw frametime difference is also too good to give up on, as some hardware can push +500FPS with relative ease in CS2
You could also run 240Hz ULMB2 and use NVidia Fast-Sync, if you can maintain 480FPS.

So I ended up settling on Pulsar at 360Hz with Special K locking the game to 320 FPS.

RTSS doesn’t seem to lock the frame rate as consistently as Special K in this game. You can see the FPS fluctuating a lot more on the monitor OSD with RTSS, which affects smoothness and clarity. Special K feels much more stable.

I also tried fixed ULMB2 at 360Hz, but I wasn’t maintaining high enough frame rates consistently for it to stay smooth. When I dropped down to 240Hz ULMB2 it felt nice and clean, but I ended up going back to Pulsar at 360Hz with the 320 FPS cap. My lows don't seem to go lower than 320 that's why I settled on it.

This feels like the best balance for me right now. Unless I can somehow get lower than 5–7 ms latency, I think this is as good as it’s going to get.

Hey. Do you have a discord we can share to test some stuff together?

I found out that nvidia + reflex + gsync (vsync on "ON" in nvidia, not fast), capping my refreshrate at 360 in cs2 will cap my frames at around 327ish and make the smoothest in terms of gameplay + latency. Lvl 10 faceit.

I tested various things like gsync off, ulmb2 on, frame cap to 360, uncapped etc... and none of these tests made the game as smooth as pulsar+gsync+vsync+reflex.

[mawi]

I tested various things like gsync off, ulmb2 on, frame cap to 360, uncapped etc... and none of these tests made the game as smooth as pulsar+gsync+vsync+reflex.

I suppose you have a beefy machine and your 1% lows are still fine? Then I guess that is possible.

[liquidshadowfox]

After installing the latest nvidia drivers, some games did start working somewhat better with pulsar with reflex + vsync on but it's still a mixed bag. Some games play nice with reflex, others don't and require riva tuner frame pacing to help smooth out frame times.

[brownvim]

Hey. Do you have a discord we can share to test some stuff together?

My Discord is vim18, but I'm not really into shooters so don't know how much help I can be. I was just trying to get it set up right for my brother to test out the monitor.

[toyosenpai]

I tested various things like gsync off, ulmb2 on, frame cap to 360, uncapped etc... and none of these tests made the game as smooth as pulsar+gsync+vsync+reflex.

I suppose you have a beefy machine and your 1% lows are still fine? Then I guess that is possible.

Not the best at the moment - 1 generations ago I guess, 13900kf and 4090, my fps very rarely dip below 320 at 2560x1440 - enemies appear super clear so I really like this res and I used to play 1920x1080 before.

Hey. Do you have a discord we can share to test some stuff together?

My Discord is vim18, but I'm not really into shooters so don't know how much help I can be. I was just trying to get it set up right for my brother to test out the monitor.

I've added you on disc if you want to test a few more settings together.

[mawi]

Not the best at the moment - 1 generations ago I guess, 13900kf and 4090, my fps very rarely dip below 320 at 2560x1440 - enemies appear super clear so I really like this res and I used to play 1920x1080 before.

I would consider 4090 as beefy
How are 1% lows compared to your capped 320 avg fps?

[rexbinary]

@rexbinary
6. The latest issue is after the monitor wakes from sleep, and you launch a game set for fullscreen display, the game will not display. You will instead see a black screen, and the bottom most light strip will blink once. It will repeat this slowly as if it's trying to go into full screen repeatedly. I have to ALT-F4 the game, and then power off the monitor and power it back on. Then full screen games will launch with no issues until the monitor sleeps again.



I’m pretty interested in this issue. Aside from setting it to 240Hz, are there any other ways to work around it? For example, something similar to how it behaves on FW V1.1.6.

I’d also like to understand whether this issue already existed in V1.0.6, or if it started showing up after updating to V1.1.4. I’m currently on V1.0.6, so I’m trying to decide whether it’s worth updating the firmware.

Could you also share the exact steps to reproduce the issue? That would help me evaluate whether I should proceed with the FW update.

Sorry I missed your post. The issue was present out of the box with V1.0.6 and is still present on V1.1.4. V1.1.6 is not out for my ASUS monitor yet to test.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Set desktop to 360Hz.
2. Set in-game to 360Hz.
3. Let monitor full sleep. (No glow at all) You can set the timeout to as low as 2 minutes in Windows.
4. Wake the monitor.
5. Launch the game.
6. You will get a black screen that flashes white repeatedly slowly.
7. To avoid this issue, you need to cycle power on the monitor after sleep before launching any games.

I have the RTX 4080 Super Founders Edition. I'm not sure but this might not be an issue for RTX 50x0 owners.

The workaround as I mentioned is to just run your desktop at 240Hz and set 360Hz in game.

[MSIfanboy]

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[liquidshadowfox]

Another brilliant idea (or at least I think so) couldn't nvidia enable better looking single pulse ULMB 2 strobing in the 25" mode since the top and bottom has black bars wouldn't that allow you to effectively hide some of the crosstalk from the top and bottom in the black bars and still get better strobing in the 25" picture in the middle? I'm sure they can implement such a thing. Still waiting on that asus update...

[CriticalHit_NL]

Sorry I missed your post. The issue was present out of the box with V1.0.6 and is still present on V1.1.4. V1.1.6 is not out for my ASUS monitor yet to test.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Set desktop to 360Hz.
2. Set in-game to 360Hz.
3. Let monitor full sleep. (No glow at all) You can set the timeout to as low as 2 minutes in Windows.
4. Wake the monitor.
5. Launch the game.
6. You will get a black screen that flashes white repeatedly slowly.
7. To avoid this issue, you need to cycle power on the monitor after sleep before launching any games.

I have the RTX 4080 Super Founders Edition. I'm not sure but this might not be an issue for RTX 50x0 owners.

The workaround as I mentioned is to just run your desktop at 240Hz and set 360Hz in game.

I tried this for you on my RTX 5090, desktop is set to 10-bit SDR mode at 360Hz, GTA IV which I know doesn't do fake fullscreen / borderless also set to 360Hz and it works just fine, monitor recovers back to G-sync/Pulsar enabled mode and runs the game fine.
Even if my monitor were to go to sleep in WoW because that game enforces sleep after like 20-30min regardless of windows setting it recovers back into the game fine on my end, no black screens, but WoW is borderless.

This is based on Windows 10 22H2 x64 Pro + ESU and 596.21 drivers.
It may very likely just be that DSC on older DP 1.4 videocards is just causing a myriad of problems like this.

Unfortunately my older G-sync PG279Q panel doesn't recover G-sync automatically despite it being enabled in the NVCP so I have to keep toggling it to fix it. 591.44 was the first driver I noticed this happening and it has been the same ever since. Not sure what is up with that and whether it affects more older panels.