[speleo_engr]

Triple buffering confusingly means different things. Both you and the OP are correct. The OP meant something in line with what Wikipedia says: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_buffering#Triple_buff...

"In triple buffering the program has two back buffers and can immediately start drawing in the one that is not involved in such copying. The third buffer, the front buffer, is read by the graphics card to display the image on the monitor. Once the image has been sent to the monitor, the front buffer is flipped with (or copied from) the back buffer holding the most recent complete image. Since one of the back buffers is always complete, the graphics card never has to wait for the software to complete. Consequently, the software and the graphics card are completely independent and can run at their own pace. Finally, the displayed image was started without waiting for synchronization and thus with minimum lag.[1]

Due to the software algorithm not having to poll the graphics hardware for monitor refresh events, the algorithm is free to run as fast as possible. This can mean that several drawings that are never displayed are written to the back buffers. Nvidia has implemented this method under the name "Fast sync"."

[ploxiln]

It annoys me that most games don't seem to offer this option - if they have this level of control, they just offer vsync on or off. The AMD gpu control panel can force triple buffering, but only for OpenGL, and I think the vast majority of games on Windows use DirectX.

Triple buffering uses more display buffer memory, but roughly the same cpu/gpu load as vsync-off. It's great for latency. It makes a whole lot of sense. It's been around for like 20 years. But you rarely see it used ...