I've been thinking about purchasing a Korean monitor with freesync capability and after watching Wendells video on the Wasabi Mango UHD420 4k Freesync monitor. He hints that there may be a driver hack to trick the Nvidia driver into thinking a Freesync display is a mobile g-sync panel.
Has anybody heard of a driver hack that can trick the driver into believing a freesync panel is a mobile gsync panel?
I will not be surprised actually. I hope there won't be, since Nvidia really really wants to take your money on Gsync branded stuff. Like the Gsync branded laptops that don't use Gsync... They use Adaptive Vsync, that is the basis of freesync.
Someone correct me if I am wrong.
Not that I've seen, but I'm sure someone somewhere is taking a crack at the code. Due to the lack of dedicated g-sync module in the new "g-sync" laptops, it's looking like g-sync might be nothing more than a driver locked feature at this point. Either way I'm not terribly excited about module-less video synchronization until someone is able to open up the framerate window, not to say I wouldn't enjoy playing around with an early homebrew driver mod!
I take it you already have an nvidia GPU?
There currently is not one, for public use at least.
There has been a hacked driver.
But the original maker of it took it offline.
I thought the hack was just for laptops, but since its part of dp1.2 it should be possible.
As someone who owns a freesync monitor, I'd love for this to be a thing. There is no need to throw 200 bucks at Nvidia when you can get the same experience without that proprietary module. I think pressure is already being put on Nvidia simply because Intel will support freesync/adaptive-sync as well, that would leave them singled out as the one company that requires a proprietary solution that costs you extra.
With mobile g-sync the situation looks even more promising, Nvidia basically already has an adaptive sync solution so they can't claim that they don't want to/can't support it for some reason.
The hacked drivers would be a start (although I imagine Nvidia will clamp down on these projects), but the ultimate goal would be to force Nvidia to officially support adaptive sync and just make their own implementation of it on the desktop (they'll never officially support "freesync", but it would make it easy to just buy a monitor without worrying about your GPU manufacturer and being locked into their eco-system).
It's ridiculous. I don't mind Nvidia pushing their proprietary tech. But they at least, at the very least, need to offer basic standards as well. (adaptive vsync is a basic standard of DP 1.2a.)
At the moment, my plan is to take the $200 saved in purchasing a freesync monitor vs. gsync and investing that into a higher tier AMD card.
I expect if there was it was legaled into the nether plain by suits with cease and desist orders.
Same thing happened with the OpenCL physx project. It had full speed AMD GPU based physx for all and the guy was hit with stop or you will never eat again levels of sue action.
This was proven false by Orbmu2k:
I'm was researching Gsync and came across this topic. I know Wendell has talked about it but it doesn't seem to be possible to enable it with purely software as of yet (if ever). Hardware wise there's some stuff going on with laptops that have eDP.