Screen tearing & shadows smearing

[Rashktah]

Hi!

I got a quite new rig (4070TI, 36gig RAM, AMD Ryzen 7 8700F) and wanted to run the game.

But I'm experiencing heavy screen tearing and the shadows smear incredibly noticable whenever I move around in the game.

The overall performance is quite great, I mostly get displayed frame counts in the 120-150 range while in the University.

I've tried with & without DLSS, with or without VSYNC, Frame Gen on/off, NVidia App forced refresh rates, different settings of Raytracing, ...

Nothing seems to help. Cyberpunk is running brilliantly with now tearing and smearing whatsoever (yeah, I know: different engine).

Does anyone have any insight on how do get rid (or at least decrease the ammount of) tearing & smearing of the graphics for this game?

Thanks! :)

[Virgo]

The problem of "tears" is widespread and evidently, many confuse it with a stutter. And it's not due to lack of vsync or a frame rate higher than the monitor's refresh rate... I couldn't find a solution for this. Very strange indeed

[PanPan]

Rollback GPU driver. It's like Windows update : bugged and unstable...

I guess you have a Gsync monitor so you should never use Vsync (that's the all point of VRR, Gsync, Freesync).
You should only enable Fast sync in Nvidia panel + Framelimiter below your max screen refresh rate.

FrameGeneration can cause stuttering and tearing (i tested it on Freesync and it's my case).

Bad shadows is "normal", game engine isn't great and they made the miminum for draw distance...

Game looks very good sometimes, but sometimes it also looks like a PS3 game...

[Lil Cup]

The only fix I found was forcing Vsync by reducing the refresh rate of the monitor, since Vsync only starts after the fps reaches your monitor's maximum refresh rate. So for example if you are getting minimum of 100 fps and max of 150, you lower the refresh rate to 100hz and turn Vsync on. That eliminated screen tearing for me completely.

[RVWinkle]

This has been making me crazy too and I'm annoyed that gsync, frame targets, and fast vsync don't solve screen tearing. My monitor seems to only support 240, 120, and 60hz but I'm usually at 100-110 fps so I think I'll try setting DLSS Performance so I get over 120 fps and then setting vsync and 120hz.