Vertical Sync drops FPS

[Your Computer]

If you had enabled vertical sync when using the SXGA monitor, you would most likely not have passed 30 FPS. If you think about it, would vsync be doing its job if a fraction of a frame is sent to the monitor? What number of frames would prevent the monitor from receiving a fraction of a frame when the refresh rate is 60hz? That would be 60, 30, 20, 15, 10, 5 and 1. Your graphics card can't generate 60 FPS when vsync is active? Then it goes to 30. It's not the game's fault that you receive 30 frames or less with vsync on. Vsync is just doing its job.

FYI: HPL3 using DirectX? Nope.