PS5 players finally waited for the VRR (variable update rate) update support this year, but it didn’t seem as good as expected.
What is VRR technology? In fact, it is like GSYNC and Freesync that we often hear on the PC side. Occasionally, we will see screen tearing during the game, resulting in a poor experience. Its function is to dynamically adjust the refresh rate of the display, so that it always matches the frame output by the GPU. The rate is the same, reducing screen tearing, duplicate images and other issues. And this VRR is one of the functions written in HDMI2.1.
As early as the launch of PS5, players began to knock on the bowl of this VRR function to improve the game experience, but it was not officially opened for updates until this year. However, a new problem has recently emerged. Recently, some players said that after turning on VRR, The display screen will often have flickering and even some screen sticking problems, and even SONY’s own high-end gaming monitor INZONE M9 cannot avoid this problem.
After testing by players, it is confirmed that after many monitors or TVs turn on the PS5 VRR function, the game screen will flicker or even some of the screen will stick. Although it is not sure whether the performance of the monitor will be permanently damaged, users are advised to temporarily turn off this function. Function. And after the actual measurement, after the VRR function is turned on, the operation of ending the game, restarting the monitor, formatting the monitor OSD, etc. cannot improve the monitor problem. Only after turning off VRR for a period of time, the monitor will return to normal state, so players need to be cautious treat.
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