Screen tearing lowering my game experience

[CircusDeluxe]

This is the first game out of like 15 games I have on steam on this computer that has given me screen tearing and I don't know what to do to stop it...the game doesn't have a FPS limiter to lower it..I see it at around 50. I have the GeForce RTX 2070. Anyone else have the same problem and perhaps can tell me what to do about this? I click VSync and I still have the tearing and it is bad...can I get a refund if I played the game?

[marsHm311oW]

https://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds/

[CircusDeluxe]

hmmf...I lowered "detail" to low and it fixed the problem...I thought I didn't have a bad graphics card at all but it's fine now.

[UnFrozenEngineer]

Did you try frame rate syncing to your monitor? Tearing was very bad for me until I enabled it.

[Sammarok-GoodGaming]

RTX 2070 should be fine with the game, what resolution are you playing? What refresh rate is your monitor? If you try vsync and still see problems, then maybe you have forced off on nvcp, make sure your vsync options are fine in nvcp. With vsync enable you should not have screen tearing. If you want to improve performance, change Ray tracing settings to lower, try MSAA off, use DLSS, etc.

[CircusDeluxe]

Hey @sammarok I play at 1440p and I think my monitor is 144Hz Dell. I don't know what NVCP is. I will try to look up MSAA to make it off. I don't want to make the detail low but somehow that helped i.

[Zapmaster]

Originally posted by CircusDeluxe:

Hey @sammarok I play at 1440p and I think my monitor is 144Hz Dell. I don't know what NVCP is. I will try to look up MSAA to make it off. I don't want to make the detail low but somehow that helped i.

It helped because on low your FPS jumped closer or above your monitors refresh rate. Which dell monitor do you have exactly? If it has adaptive sync ( Free-sync ) turning that on will help with screen tearing significantly.

[Sammarok-GoodGaming]

NVCP is Nvidia Control Panel. Just make sure vsync is not forced off for the game. As @Zapmaster says, free sync can help with screen tearing. Make sure ingame you have DLSS on to help performance. The game without DLSS is very demanding, I am with a RTX 2080Ti on native 4k and can barely maintain 60 fps without DLSS. In my case I can use DLSS + RTX settings in Medium to get average 60 fps.

[Uns33n]

I can at least give you the solution I used to get rid of screen tearing. Use Borderless Windowed mode and you can also use NVCP and add the directx11 executable of Control to the list manually (in programs) and click on 'max FPS' within settings and put it something like 75, if your monitor refresh rate is 60Hz.

For me actually, just setting the game to borderless with V-sync off in game settings, got rid of tearing.

[CircusDeluxe]

ZapMaster I have a Dell 2719DGF... Is there something I need to do with the monitor? I really haven't touched anything with changing monitor settings since I bought it. It's a great monitor for me.

I went to NVCP and put the VSYNC to adaptive.
I used borderless windowed and changed the settings back to high and now I don't have tearing at all now!

How do I turn on DLSS? I just looked it up just to learn what it is. Anything I can do to get better performance would be good.

Thank you

[Sammarok-GoodGaming]

DLSS is in the game's Display options just above Vsync, it is called Nvidia DLSS.

Glad to hear the screen tearing is gone :)

[CircusDeluxe]

Ok that DLSS only appears when I pick DirectX12. Does my RTX 2070 support that? When I pick that I can't get rendered resolution of 1440p.

[Dryspace]

Screen tearing isn't caused by a high framerate, it's caused by a lack of Vertical Synchronization. In fact, the lower your framerate, the more noticeable screen tearing will be.

The only way to eliminate screen tearing is to enable VSync, or use FreeSync/GSync. (Windows 10 has forced VSync, so if you use Borderless Windowed mode, there shouldn't be tearing even if you don't have VSync enabled in-game.)

But tearing isn't the only reason to use VSync: VSync also eliminates judder, as long as your framerate stays above your refresh rate. In other words, the motion on-screen will be a LOT smoother.

To recap, VSync: 1. Eliminates tearing at any framerate, and 2. Eliminates judder as long as your framerate doesn't drop below your refresh rate. (EDIT: Unless you're using FreeSync/GSync: Their main purpose is to get the anti-judder benefit of VSync without having to stay above a fixed refresh rate.)

[Sammarok-GoodGaming]

Originally posted by CircusDeluxe:

Ok that DLSS only appears when I pick DirectX12. Does my RTX 2070 support that? When I pick that I can't get rendered resolution of 1440p.

Yes is for DX12 only (forgot to mention that). Yes your card support DX12 so no worries and yes DLSS will lower the rendering a bit, just select the higher rendering possible.

@Dryspace, true, that is why I cannot play games with Vsync off.

[Zapmaster]

Originally posted by CircusDeluxe:

ZapMaster I have a Dell 2719DGF... Is there something I need to do with the monitor? I really haven't touched anything with changing monitor settings since I bought it. It's a great monitor for me.

I went to NVCP and put the VSYNC to adaptive.
I used borderless windowed and changed the settings back to high and now I don't have tearing at all now!

How do I turn on DLSS? I just looked it up just to learn what it is. Anything I can do to get better performance would be good.

Thank you

Yes, your monitor has freesync (meaning that refresh rate will adapt to in game frames to eliminate screen tearing), so once you turn it on in you monitor settings, go in Nvidia drivers to enable it. Here is how: https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4768/related/1/session/L2F2LzEvdGltZS8xNTk5NzgzODM4L2dlbi8xNTk5NzgzODM4L3NpZC9mVVJVUTJTZSU3RTlDb2JKaDBtVTF3N0ppMUZNR3Nwa2FLRzIxTUVOdjl5UFdvajRxd1BKVlBfYWg1a1RCbUJpb25qQnExemh1OE5aUmJLOVpheVB4RE10NnJTVGJoSzJzX2oxWVlkRkd3NFhkVUx2RjgwVFFkSzBQdyUyMSUyMQ%3D%3D

[CircusDeluxe]

I've been playing in Direct X11 Borderless and seems the only thing that eliminates the tearing pretty well. DX12 version with DLSS gives me tearing still so I'll just play on X11 Borderless as one commentor stated . My FPS is around 50 only. I have Vsync on and FreeSync on my monitor on.

Also side question:

Is the "memory" of my graphics card 8GB or 16GB? I have the RTX 2070. There is total memory I saw as 16 but there are two types.