A Question on screen tearing.

[dmxdex2020]

Is their a way to stop screen tearing without using vysnc?

When i dont use Vsync i have good FPS.

When Vsync is on it locks them to 60 and any thing major and the frames plummet to 40 causing stuttering.

 

[DigitalReaper]

No. Tearing happens because buffer flips after a frame has finished rendering are happening in the middle of a screen refresh. VSync makes the flips happen between screen refreshes.

 

[dmxdex2020]

So how can i make it better then and keep good frames?

My refresh rate it set to 60.

 

[DigitalReaper]

Turn on vsync or live with the tearing. Nothing else you can do, unless upgrading your system to maintain 60+ fps at all times with vsync on counts.

 

[dmxdex2020]

What is live?

 

[DigitalReaper]

put up with tearing, or turn vsync on

 

[Rroff]

You can enable tripple buffering with vsync to try and reduce the FPS drops... but its not an ideal solution.

 

[SteveB]

Just a thought but in certain games you can set the FPS limit, eg Call of Duty using the \com_maxFPS command. You say you have good FPS well if that is above 120 how about limiting your game to that. This should give you the higher FPS and eliminate the tearing as the frames would be updated and every other one displayed. Only if your frames dip below 120 you would get tearing.

Opinions on this?

 

[psychas]

get crt monitor

 

[Calneon]

Just a thought but in certain games you can set the FPS limit, eg Call of Duty using the \com_maxFPS command. You say you have good FPS well if that is above 120 how about limiting your game to that. This should give you the higher FPS and eliminate the tearing as the frames would be updated and every other one displayed. Only if your frames dip below 120 you would get tearing.

Opinions on this?

What's the point of rendering 120 frames per second if it's only showing half of them?

 

[dmxdex2020]

I have a CRT monitor its like 10 years old im getting a 17 inch tft monitor next week mine is knackered screen is all blurry.

 

[Rroff]

What's the point of rendering 120 frames per second if it's only showing half of them?

if you can get the fps high enough (usually over 100fps) - even tho the display is only refreshing at say 60Hz you can minimise the effect of tearing so that its only noticeable on areas with lots of vertical lines like radiators and hanging blinds, etc.

However most of the suggestions like using a CRT aren't going to help - and even locking the fps won't help as you have no control over syncing with the scan line.

 

[XysteR]

I'm having the same problem with my Kyro 3D PowerVR. Infact i'm seriously thinking of moving back to 3Dfx.

Sorry... i'm still in retro mode

 

[titaniumx3]

Limiting fps to 30, 60, 120, etc usually eliminates or at the very least, substantially reduces tearing.

 

[SteveB]

What's the point of rendering 120 frames per second if it's only showing half of them?

Quite simply I feel the games I play run smoother at a higher FPS regardless of what's displayed.

 

[dmxdex2020]

How do i set the FPS when you enable screen tearing i do not know were to do this?