V Sync on or off , no difference

[newtyng5]

As posted, i guess i can try and force it through nvidia panel. But screen tear occurs the same whether vsync is on or off. It really is a shocking port , for more reasons than vsync.

[Nucci]

yeah I have seen that issue, you seem to have to go in and disable then re-enable it sometimes which should not be the case.

[Pabbert]

For Nvidea cards -
Turn off VSync in game - save and exit game.
Open Nvidea desktop control panel, select 3D settings and select Program Settings tab, Find last of us part 1 (might need to add it).
Set Vertical Sync to On, set Max Frame Rate to 60 or what ever your refresh rate is.
Hit Apply, Exit and play game hopefully with out the tearing

[CLE]

First thing I’ve tried was forcing vsync through nvcp but no avail. Weird enough doesn’t change a thing. I still have to disable then enable in-game at every load for some reason.

[AmaiAmai]

If you are on Windows 10 or 11, remember that desktop window manager (dwm.exe) can enforce V-Sync on ANY Windowed or Full Screen Windowed program.

If tearing is that bad for a game, windowed mode is your friend...assuming this game even supports it.

[Ninjafroggie]

Originally posted by AmaiAmai:

If you are on Windows 10 or 11, remember that desktop window manager (dwm.exe) can enforce V-Sync on ANY Windowed or Full Screen Windowed program.

If tearing is that bad for a game, windowed mode is your friend...assuming this game even supports it.

it wont even let me choose fullscreen, only windowed or borderless windowed.

[AmaiAmai]

Originally posted by Ninjafroggie:

Originally posted by AmaiAmai:

If you are on Windows 10 or 11, remember that desktop window manager (dwm.exe) can enforce V-Sync on ANY Windowed or Full Screen Windowed program.

If tearing is that bad for a game, windowed mode is your friend...assuming this game even supports it.

it wont even let me choose fullscreen, only windowed or borderless windowed.

And neither are enforcing vsync? That's quite strange since Windows itself should be forcing it on all desktop applications...

Do you have desktop composition on? What version of Windows do you have?

Windows 10 and 11 should have it on by default unless you set the Windows UI to performance, in that case "Let Windows Choose what is best" will enable it in the background.

Check in task manager if "dwm.exe" is running...

Read more about DWM:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/dwm/dwm-overview

Enabling Desktop Composition [Win 7]:

https://avid.secure.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/how_to/Enable-Desktop-Composition-in-Windows

[Ninjafroggie]

It appears to be fixed on my machine by turning off vsync in game and enabling 'enhanced radeon sync' in the radeon adrenaline software. It's still rendering WAY more fps than my display is actually capable of showing, but at least the tearing appears to be gone

[Vox Maximus]

Originally posted by Ninjafroggie:

Originally posted by AmaiAmai:

If you are on Windows 10 or 11, remember that desktop window manager (dwm.exe) can enforce V-Sync on ANY Windowed or Full Screen Windowed program.

If tearing is that bad for a game, windowed mode is your friend...assuming this game even supports it.

it wont even let me choose fullscreen, only windowed or borderless windowed.

Borderless Windowed is a fullscreen. There is no true exclusive fullscreen since DX11, since DX12 has a better way of rendering now (DXGI Flip Model Swap Chain instead of old BitBlt) without the need of exclusive fullscreen anymore.

[Bandit]

Originally posted by newtyng5:

As posted, i guess i can try and force it through nvidia panel. But screen tear occurs the same whether vsync is on or off. It really is a shocking port , for more reasons than vsync.

This happened to me as well. Don't have your framerate set to 60fps in the settings. You have to set it to max framerate for vsync to work. Worked for me anyway.

[MishaTX]

I had the same issue. I had Vsync on, but I also had the framerate capped to 60 (as that is my monitor's refresh rate) in the game and there was tearing all over the shop.

Upped the cap to 70 and tear gone without having my GPU rendering frames that the game wasn't using. Well, 10 of them, but less than "uncapped."

Then came to my senses and let Nvidia control panel handle it for me as I should have done from the start, but if you want to do it from in game, that worked for me.