Vega 56 and Core i5 8400 experience significant lag in Fortnite.
Vega 56 and Core i5 8400 experience significant lag in Fortnite.
Make sure Vsync is enabled or adjust your frame capping in the game. Disable Shadows, AA, and post-processing effects, even on a 1080ti—those add little value.
Turn off VSync in games unless you want screen tearing instead of other issues.
Get a free sync monitor or you'll be stuck, because letting your frames exceed 60 will ruin the card.
^ I’m not okay with keeping sync even when handling screen tearing, because a low frame rate and choppy performance caused by a fixed frame rate are really not acceptable to me.
This a pretty big issue that a lot of people don't get and can get rather infuriated over, I know I sure did back when I built my first system. Vsync is what limits your in game FPS to the refresh rate of your monitor. Now, in practice having a high end system running with vsync turned on sounds ideal right? No screen tearing and smooth gameplay. HOWEVER, as we all now, even the best systems encounter lag spikes, nothing can be done for most systems, it's just the way it is. So when you've got this big fancy graphics card and cpu, and you play on a low refresh rate monitor with vsync enabled, you will get lag spikes time to time and they will be so much more noticeable. One way of fixing this (as mentioned before) is AMD FreeSync or Nvidia G-SYNC. How this works is pretty simple, the monitor's refresh rate will constantly adapt to whatever your graphics card can put out. I'll use my system as an example to explain. I have a GTX 1080Ti Armor OC from MSI, with a 27" Acer Predator 240Hz monitor. When I play games such as Arma 3 or the likes of Forza Horizon 4, I'm never hitting 240 FPS, it's seemingly impossible when running on max settings. So when you're running at whatever FPS, let's say 80, my monitor's refresh rate will match that, meaning I get a smooth picture, with no screen tearing. This holds true all the way down to 30FPS. Now another thing to note is the inevitable lag spikes I mentioned. When you're running at a higher refresh rate and fps, these performance drops are much less noticeable, especially on higher spec systems such as mine. Hopefully that's explained it a little bit for you. So in reality, there's very little you can do for now, unless you whack down your settings to stop any lag spikes OR you can deal with the screen tearing. As you're running an AMD card, I recommend looking for a FreeSync monitor, they're relatively inexpensive compared to G-SYNC panels and will give you the adaptive refresh rate I mentioned