what, then, are some games doing which allows them to look smooth with
vsync being on and the minimal number of frames are being rendered?
Ah you know what my bad, i think at some point they got vysnc working right and the timer seems to be improved as well.
I just tested it at 300 fps and the frame rate locked at 60fps which is my video cards default refresh rate for overriding apps. Which its obviously doing here updates were 300 draws were 60 with IsRunning slowly constantly firing.
When i set the framerate to 60 with vsync and pushed the card and i got no frame skips or running slowlys and it looked steady. Though im not gonna test it at higher speeds and try to unlock the default on the card for my random apps.
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So i guess instead my advice should of been… try setting your frame rate to the monitors refresh rate first.
You should also be aware that modern crt monitors take from 16 to 30 milliseconds for a pixel to dim its not immediate, so that can actually affect what your seeing as a form of motion blur.