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Tender Loins Jul 6, 2016 @ 6:29pm
Screen Tearing vs Stuttering?
What is the difference exactly? I've used both terms because I always just assumed they are the same thing but i'm really not sure. For example i said i got screen tearing in 7DTD when the framerate would go from 60fps to 50 or something and it would look like my screen just froze for a split second, which I would think is called a stutter, but I said screen tearing :/

So can anyone explain?
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Snapjak Jul 6, 2016 @ 6:44pm 
Tearing is pretty much the image being "torn" and not matching up.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Tearing_(simulated).jpg

Stuttering is the image not being rendered quickly enough causing stutters where it's one frame... waiting waiting.. next frame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcqQE8hOvEQ
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Tender Loins Jul 6, 2016 @ 9:20pm 
hm thats weird it doesnt really look like either of those things. maybe more like the stuttering but its hard to tell becasue that youtube video the framerate was so low in the first place. Idk *sigh*
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