- Vertical synchronization
Vertical synchronization (v-sync, vbl-sync) refers generally to the synchronization of frame changes with the
vertical blanking interval . Since CRTs were nearly the only commonvideo display technology prior to the widespread adoption of LCDs, theframe buffer s incomputer graphics hardware are designed to match the CRT characteristic of drawing images from the top down a line at a time by replacing the data of the previous frame in the buffer with that of the next frame in a similar fashion. If the frame buffer is updated with a new image while the image is being transmitted to the display, the frame buffer gives it the current mishmash of both frames, producing apage tearing artifact partway down the image.Vertical synchronization eliminates this by timing frame buffer fills to coincide with the vertical blanking interval, thus ensuring that only whole frames are seen on-screen.
Computer game s often allow vertical synchronization as an option, because it delays the image update until the vertical blanking interval. This can cause loweredframe rate s due to latency (the period of therefresh rate at maximum), which might be undesirable in games that require fast response (e.g.first person shooters ).VSYNC is also the name of the signal indicating this frame change in analogue RGB
component video .ee also
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Double buffering
*Triple buffering
*Refresh rate
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