You ' re an awesome human being . I continued to Brandon Sanderson ' s A Way of Kings saga after my last HP ASoIaF binge . You should check it out . <| sep |> note that playing in borderless windowed always has vsync as Windows applies it to all windowsWindows uses some sort of buffered frame approach , not vsync . It simply takes frames as they are rendered , be it 30 fps or 200 fps , and displays the most recent full frame . While vsync makes the gpu render frames with specific timing in mind , which has other advantages , that freesync also has . Perfect smoothness that is . All 3 approaches vsync , windows borderless shenanigans , freesync get rid of tearing , though , as you pointed out ! <| sep |> well , that ' s certainly why i wrote it in title case lmao .