How to calibrate frame sync for the Gigabyte RTX 5060 Ti 16G?
That feeling of the screen being sliced horizontally during interstellar jumps made it obvious that my GPU output and monitor refresh rate were completely out of sync. While the 16G VRAM on the Gigabyte RTX 5060 Ti handled high-res textures like a champ, the frame times were swinging wildly between 12ms - 28ms, making traditional V-Sync feel sluggish. I tried the in-game V-Sync first, but it added about 50ms of input lag, and that 'floaty' control feeling was just depressing. I headed into the NVIDIA Control Panel, forced G-Sync Compatible mode, and capped the max frame rate at 141 FPS to keep the frame times strictly within the refresh window. Checking the RTSS frame time graph, those jagged peaks were finally flattened into a smooth 14ms - 16ms range, and the tearing vanished. I did hit a snag where the monitor blacked out twice when I first enabled G-Sync, but swapping to a certified DP 1.4 cable fixed it. Core temps stayed between 62℃ - 68℃, with VRAM hitting 75℃ - 82℃. Everything is synced up now, though the cable cost was an annoying extra.
