Windows 10: Just checking if there's still no way to disable vsync while playing games in windowed mode

Hi, just wanted to check in on this issue. I know Microsoft says it has a commitment to gaming but I have never upgraded to Windows 10 on account of the fact that I use windowed mode in all games that I play, and in Windows 10 it has never been possible to actually disable vsync in windowed mode because the DWM forces it no matter what you do, and without your consent. I remember seeing this issue on Microsoft's one site that allowed people to submit suggestions for features and it had quite a few votes but I never heard anything about it again. Thanks in advance for any answers.

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Game bar recording turns on Vsync, is there anyway to disable?

So I've used many programs to record gameplay and a feature that is always requested is being able to record game audio only. I found out that Game bar actually can do this while no other program can but the issue is that when using the capture feature,
the game I am playing is forced into Vsync which adds in input lag. I would genuinely use this to record if I was able to disable the forced Vsync.

Side note. It would be really nice to have more options with recording, like being able to select resolution and and video bitrate.

Thanks

 

Games are forced to run in Triple buffering mode

Regardless of the setting "Disable fullscreen optimizations" checked or unchecked, games run in Triple buffering mode rather than in Double buffering mode. Take Grand Theft Auto V for instance, the game runs fine in fullscreen mode with
Double buffering Vsync until navigated to other applications by pressing "Alt+Tab" and when navigated back to the game, the game is no more running with Double buffering Vsync, which is completely overridden with Triple buffering Vsync instead. The game might
look like it is running in Fullscreen mode, but, it actually is not. Toggling between Windowed mode and Fullscreen mode fixes the issue. This issue seems to be completely ignored and many seem to does not care. This leads to inconsistency in input latency,
frame pacing and impacts the gaming experience when one is not aware of whether the game is running in actual Fullscreen mode or Borderless windowed mode.

Also, checking "Disable fullscreen optimizations" setting seem to make games run even worse because, no matter what you do like toggling between Windowed mode and Fullscreen mode, the games are forced to run with Triple buffering Vsync. Double buffering
Vsync gets completely killed off. Mind you, this affects only when games are running with Vsync enabled obviously. Not sure how it works with it being disabled. Currently, it seems like there is no fix at all unless developers notice this and change the way,
the games run.

 

Disable game mode

Other than

which doesn't open a game bar, is there another way to disable? Some kind of workaround?

TYVM

grb