I take it from your post that I shouldn’t turn VSYNC off. Aside from tearing issue, I am curious what other implications turning VSYNC off has. A forum search has returned a big list of post, I have a bit of reading to do…
Rendering frames unnecessarily. Pretty much the only time not to have it is if you won’t be able to match typical monitor refresh rates on the target hardware (since if it can’t hit 60, for example, it will drop to 30).