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by andrius4669 2552 days ago
Untrue in my experience.

Games still can render more FPS than mandated by vsync.

I tried playing sauerbraten (with SDL2) on sway other day, it was butter smooth (no tearing) with vsync off in game, and I felt no input lag unlike when I switch vsync flag on in game which limits FPS.

It probably does triple buffering, but somehow on sway it worked better than triple buffering of intel's xorg driver back when I tried that.

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VSync fundamentally introduces a frame+ of delay by design, it does not matter what your FPS is.