Screen Tearing

[DFizzle88]

So I did a ton of benching in game and found a settings to fps combination I was happy...ish with. I'm fully aware the in game bench is pretty crappy so I started up a new game and actually did some driving, flying etc. Again...Happy....ish. The single thing I noticed though is that without Vsync enabeled....the screen tearing is viscious. I mean unplayable. I'm going to admit, I'm don't expect to run this the best it can run (sad to say, my rig isn't the latest hardware, but it is far from low end)

Windows 10
i7 4770 (non k)
GTX 770 2GB (yes, my bottleneck, I'm aware)
8GB Corsair Vengence ram (With my testing in game after a couple hours, no major issues with studdering...yet)
250GB Samsung SSD

Textures on Low, no gameworks settings on, AA on, motion blur off, shadows on normal.

I've tested the game installed on SSD and HDD, I've honestly seen no major difference in streaming, however loading time was obviously quite varied. Now post patch, the game loaded on HDD in a respectable time frame...not on HDD....it takes about 45 seconds to even see the splash screen. Currently I'm installed on HDD just for back and forth testing though.

I'm just curious, does anyone else experience this awful screen tearing without VSync enabeled? I'll play with it on if I have to, but any and all advice on getting this garbage port to play any better is appreciated.

[Zaphre]

Well... ofcourse there will be screen tearing with vsync disabled... What is the frequency of your monitor? What is the FPS rate the game is running for you?

[VisionHawk]

I actually got better performance with vsync off and setting the cap at 90. I have a 120Hz monitor. and I was getting around 50-60fps but now that I'm farther in the game I'm starting to notice some drops in the more populated areas. Haven't seen anything below 30 and that's okay for me. Try turning your shadows to "low." That one option made all the difference in the world on my system for some reason. I saw another post talking about setting shadows to low after I spent so much time with frame rates dipping into the single digits. Now it runs as good as all my other games.

My system:
AMD FX-8120 8 core running at 3.9GHz
ASUS Sabertooth 990FX
Nvidia GeForce GTX760 4GB
16GB Corsair Vengeance RAM
Windows 10 Pro x64

And I'm running textures on high, antialiasing on, and 16x filtering, shadows low, motion blur off, film grain off and all the gameworks settings off. I was using enhanced light shafts and enhanced rain, but I think I like it better with rain turned off.

[DFizzle88]

I apologize for leaving out this information. My monitor is 60hz and i capped the game at 60fps

[Sammy]

Under display mode (in graphics options) - change it from fullscreen to windowed (borderless).

This will also eliminate tearing like vsync but without the "mouse lagg" and sometimes fps issues associated with vsync.

[trek554]

Originally posted by DFizzle88:

I apologize for leaving out this information. My monitor is 60hz and i capped the game at 60fps

is this your first day of pc gaming? ALL games tear to some degree when vsync is off regardless of framerate.

[DFizzle88]

Far from my first day PC gaming. However I've never experienced this degree of tearing. It rendered the game unplayable. I've never had it that severely.

[trek554]

Originally posted by DFizzle88:

Far from my first day PC gaming. However I've never experienced this degree of tearing. It rendered the game unplayable. I've never had it that severely.

actually I think this game tears less than most others I have tested but to me any tearing is bothersome.

[duEprocEss]

Originally posted by Sammy:

Under display mode (in graphics options) - change it from fullscreen to windowed (borderless).

This will also eliminate tearing like vsync but without the "mouse lagg" and sometimes fps issues associated with vsync.

Borderless window mode uses desktop vsync. This is why tearing is eliminated but some games run worse in any variation of windowed mode.

[Sammy]

Originally posted by duEprocEss:

Originally posted by Sammy:

Under display mode (in graphics options) - change it from fullscreen to windowed (borderless).

This will also eliminate tearing like vsync but without the "mouse lagg" and sometimes fps issues associated with vsync.

Borderless window mode uses desktop vsync. This is why tearing is eliminated but some games run worse in any variation of windowed mode.

And a lot run better ;)

[duEprocEss]

Originally posted by Sammy:

Originally posted by duEprocEss:

Borderless window mode uses desktop vsync. This is why tearing is eliminated but some games run worse in any variation of windowed mode.

And a lot run better ;)

Yes! It's weird how that is.

[trek554]

Originally posted by Sammy:

Originally posted by duEprocEss:

Borderless window mode uses desktop vsync. This is why tearing is eliminated but some games run worse in any variation of windowed mode.

And a lot run better ;)

Originally posted by duEprocEss:

Originally posted by Sammy:

And a lot run better ;)

Yes! It's weird how that is.

yeah for example Fallout 4 runs perfectly smooth in borderless window but is stuttery crap in fullscreen.