PC Drivers & Software

[alexhsmith22]

I just recently got an AMD video card and have been messing around in Radeon Settings:Adrenalin Edition. It doesn't seem to have a global way to turn on or off AMD Freesync. However if I go into Game Graphics I can see that I can specifically do it for a game. Where it says AMD Freesync with the options: AMD optimized, On, and Off. I was hoping there would be a global way to just turn freesync on or off though. Am i missing something?

However under Display I do see AMD Freesync Premium I can globally turn on or off. Once again though my question is more related to Freesync not Freesync Premium. 

If your wondering why I care to turn it on or off, since installing my new card I have had great performance but when playing a game I sometimes get a black screen for ~1sec. Which is why im messing around to see if i can fix that as maybe the freesync is doing something?

[wildcard1978]

well  freesync prepium is freesync its just newer version  

[DimkaTsv]

Freesync works on display side, not on GPU side. So it MUST be enabled on monitor and driver only tells either use or not use this mode for applications. If you disable Freesync on monitor, you won't be able even enable Freesync. Moreover... You could've googled topic by itself. Difference between Freesync and Freesync Premium (and Freesync Premium Pro) is different hardware capabilities for support, which are more like extensions on top of very basic Freesync default. 

Also as i said, freesync must be enabled on monitor side. Toggles per game and under Display settings are for enabling usage of this synchronisation mode either globally or on per game basis. For per-game settings it exists so that user can decide if Freesync capabilities should be used with some specific game (like it runs only at locked 30 FPS, and lower range of Freesync premium is 48, so you better turn it off for such game.

See... It even have Display column dedicated for these settings... 

Difference in single toggle in monitor settings

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If your wondering why I care to turn it on or off, since installing my new card I have had great performance but when playing a game I sometimes get a black screen for ~1sec.

It is either bad DisplayPort cable that is unable to handle interference
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Or result of current issues with vertical synchronisation and hw acceleration caused by process of adaptation to MPO (MultiPlane Overlay). 
In this case fix is registry edit. You can find one either here (yes Nvidia began to have same issues about 2 years ago, and some people are even now can meet some problems):
Please... Google "461.09 mpo disable"... it should be first link.
 
OR just do that regit manually
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Dwm]
"OverlayTestMode"=dword:00000005

People report that it helped them with black screen issues and some other related issues.