Borderless vs Full Screen (Screentearing fix?)

[LOUnatic]

Playing on the following:
4670K
GTX 970 SSC
8gb 1600 ram
HDD
Asus 1080p 60 hz monitor. (Also have second junky old gateway 1600x1050) monitor for youtube videos and temp monitoring)

So my Nvidia Experience forced my game to full screen and I started getting a lot of screen tearing. After pulling my hair out I found that If I put the game on one of two settings I dont get tearing without Vsync. Either A) Full Screen, check variable frame rate. Or B) borderless window mode without variable.

Obviously I would rather run with out the variable frame rate because it puts farless stress on my GPU running at 62 as opposed to 120+.

My question is why is my card running BETTER at borderless window mode than at full screen? Defective card? Damaged? yalls thoughts?

[A Toothless Casserole]

Get a G-Sync monitor. 144Hz one.

[LOUnatic]

Originally posted by C0rn3j:

Get a G-Sync monitor. 144Hz one.

I really REALLY doubt most people are playing on 144hz monitors today. Considering their cost.

[LOUnatic]

Also, I just looked at a few other games and its the same way.

[LSA King]

I just gotta say, I don't think Variable Framerate does anything or puts less stress on your GPU in its default state. I don't really know why that option is there to begin with because through my testing my 660 is stressed equally running at a non-stop 62FPS or running unchecked @ 70-80FPS. I think with V-Sync maybe it would put less stress on your GPU, but by itself I think it's fairly useless in my own testing.

[LOUnatic]

Originally posted by LSA King:

I just gotta say, I don't think Variable Framerate does anything or puts less stress on your GPU in its default state. I don't really know why that option is there to begin with because through my testing my 660 is stressed equally running at a non-stop 62FPS or running unchecked @ 70-80FPS. I think with V-Sync maybe it would put less stress on your GPU, but by itself I think it's fairly useless in my own testing.

No I have watched it. With the variable framerate option my fps goes up to about 120 and puts a lot more heat out.

[LSA King]

Originally posted by sHAkE_zOOLA:

No I have watched it. With the variable framerate option my fps goes up to about 120 and puts a lot more heat out.

Interesting. It literally does nothing on my end regarding heat or lowering my clocks (signaling using less power). Then again it's a GPU that doesn't give a commanding consistent FPS past 60. Wonder if anyone else can verify this.

[LOUnatic]

Originally posted by LSA King:

Originally posted by sHAkE_zOOLA:

No I have watched it. With the variable framerate option my fps goes up to about 120 and puts a lot more heat out.

Interesting. It literally does nothing on my end regarding heat or lowering my clocks (signaling using less power). Then again it's a GPU that doesn't give a commanding consistent FPS past 60. Wonder if anyone else can verify this.

well if you have vsync on then it wouldnt make a difference.

[Frostbite*]

get decient harware they u got no problems, tw are getting blamed a lot cause ppls games are screwed ect witin these forums,ffs its the hardware u run the game on put up or shut up simple,theres a lot more people running 120 hzs and upwards more than a pishy 60 hzs moniter thats lagg in itself running new gen games at 60 hzs lol i can see the piont if it was a 4k moniter@60hzs but 1080p no excuse:)

[A Toothless Casserole]

Originally posted by sHAkE_zOOLA:

Originally posted by C0rn3j:

Get a G-Sync monitor. 144Hz one.

I really REALLY doubt most people are playing on 144hz monitors today. Considering their cost.

220$ for the cheapest 1080p 144Hz.

[LOUnatic]

Originally posted by C0rn3j:

Originally posted by sHAkE_zOOLA:

I really REALLY doubt most people are playing on 144hz monitors today. Considering their cost.

220$ for the cheapest 1080p 144Hz.

So you are saying most people DO play on them?

[A Toothless Casserole]

Originally posted by sHAkE_zOOLA:

Originally posted by C0rn3j:

220$ for the cheapest 1080p 144Hz.

So you are saying most people DO play on them?

Most people don't even know the difference. I'm just saying the cost is okay.

[JohnTravoltage]

Originally posted by C0rn3j:

Originally posted by sHAkE_zOOLA:

I really REALLY doubt most people are playing on 144hz monitors today. Considering their cost.

220$ for the cheapest 1080p 144Hz.

Is the monitor itself actually good though? input latency? What ports does it accept? Also previously the guy said to get a g-sync 144 hz monitor, which is a lot more expensive.

[the_lone_ran9er]

There are some games I've discovered where Vsync doesn't work. Wolfenstein TNO and The Old blood for instance. I play this games in windowed mode because it eliminates screen tearing.

[A Toothless Casserole]

Originally posted by John Travoltage:

Originally posted by C0rn3j:

220$ for the cheapest 1080p 144Hz.

Is the monitor itself actually good though? input latency? What ports does it accept? Also previously the guy said to get a g-sync 144 hz monitor, which is a lot more expensive.

I did say to get G-Sync 144Hz. It is more expensive, I'm just saying that pure 144Hz monitor is cheap.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009642&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-PCPartPicker,%20LLC-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=

or a tiny bit more expensive with better quality
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B2HH7G0/?tag=pcpapi-20

[A Toothless Casserole]

Originally posted by ☠Soul Assassin︻芫══↼:

Originally posted by C0rn3j:

I did say to get G-Sync 144Hz. It is more expensive, I'm just saying that pure 144Hz monitor is cheap.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009642&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-PCPartPicker,%20LLC-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=

or a tiny bit more expensive with better quality
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B2HH7G0/?tag=pcpapi-20

Don't get acer they are junk pure and simple. My second pc i had in the early 1990's was an acer and it stopped working my parents had to pay 60 bucks to ship it back to acer 2 weeks later we got it back nothing was fixed at all still not working. So we sent it back again another 60 bucks for shipping. They swapped out the cd rom and sent it back still not working. So we sent it out a 3rd time and another 60 bucks for shipping but this time we marked everything with a marker so we will know if they fixed anything. After the 3rd time they finally fixed it. Took them 3 times and cost us 180 bucks which could of went toward a better pc then acer crap.

So avoid acer they are junk and after my experince with them i have never bought another acer product since the 90's.

I have a better advice, don't buy prebuilts. Also your over 20 years old experience with a prebuilt definitely does not reflect how it is now with MONITORS