Screen Tear after installing R9 290 X-Fire

[Coxy7840]

Afternoon Overclockers!

I have recently installed a new GPU to my system and enabled X-Fire. Since doing so I seem to be experiencing some quite bad vertical screen tear.

It appears in any game that doesnt have V-Sync options and on any video I watch. Whether that be a DVD, Video file on my PC or a web based video.

Does anyone have any idea how I could remove, or even reduce the amount of vertical screen tear I am seeing?

Here are my system specs:

1. Processor - Devils Canyon Core i7 4790K

2.Motherboard -Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7

3.Memory (RAM) - Corsair CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9B 16GB (4x4GB) 1600MHz CL9 DDR3 Vengeance Blu Memory Four Module Kit

4.Hard drive(s) - Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic + Hitachi HDT721010SLA360 ATA Device (931 GB)

5.Graphics cards- (X-Fire) - 1) Asus Radeon R9 290 "Voltage Unlocked" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card 2)Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Vapor-X OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

6.Power supply (PSU) - Seasonic G series 750w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply

7.Case - BitFenix Ghost Silent Tower Case - Black

8. Cooling - Corsair Hydro H110 280mm High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler

9. Monitor - Asus PB287Q 28" 4K 60Hz 1MS Gaming Widescreen LED Monitor.

Your knowledge and insight would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Scurburg]

Normally screen tearing is caused by a higher frame rate than the monitors refresh, however you are running at 4K @ 60hz so I'm not sure how often it could be occurring.

What would be useful to know is what the fps count is when the screen tear occurs (In games). If its when higher than you monitor refresh, you could try to artificially limit the fps to match your monitor (or maybe even slightly below) through something like rivertuner (Installed as part of afterburner) to see if that makes any difference, however I am not sure this will have any effect on the video issues. You will need to try it for yourself.

 

[40Four]

You can turn on v-sync in ccc. I had to do that for Stick of Truth and it removed the issue.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

CCC v-sync only does OpenGL, but radeonpros got a v-sync option, which works in everything as far as im aware, or D3DOverrider if it'll work.

 

[Coxy7840]

CCC v-sync only does OpenGL, but radeonpros got a v-sync option, which works in everything as far as im aware, or D3DOverrider if it'll work.

Yeah I downloaded the latest Radeon Pro and every time I open it I get this error:

Spoiler

-- Begin Report----------
AppProfiles.dll Ver 1, 0, 5, 5
AppProfiles64.dll Ver 1, 0, 5, 5
ATI.dll Ver 1.0.0.0
atimgpud.dll
exec.exe Ver 1.0.0.3
ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll Ver 0.85.5
Localization.dll Ver 1.0.0.1
Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.dll Ver 1.0.0.3
Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.Shell.dll Ver 1.0.0.3
PSTaskDialog.dll Ver 1.0.0.0
RadeonPro.exe Ver 1.1.1.0
RadeonPro64.exe Ver 1.0.0.0
RadeonProSupport.exe Ver 1.0.3.4
RPExtender.dll Ver 1.0.0.1
RPJumpLists.dll Ver 1.0.0.8
RPSupport.dll Ver 1.0.8.9
Start.exe Ver 1.0.3.4
unins000.exe
V8.Net.dll Ver 1, 0, 0, 0
----------------------
Can't start program due to an unexpected error.

1 07/04/2015 15:25:48.2289147 PnpDeviceID: PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_67B1&SUBSYS_E283174B&REV_00\4&1286464&0&0008
2 07/04/2015 15:25:48.2289147 DriverKey: SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_67B1&SUBSYS_E283174B&REV_00\4&1286464&0&0008\Device Parameters
3 07/04/2015 15:25:48.2289147 DriverIndex: 0001
4 07/04/2015 15:25:48.2289147 SecKey: SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Class\{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0001
5 07/04/2015 15:25:48.2289147 Driver: Catalyst 14.12 AMD Catalyst Omega Software (14.501.1003-141120a-177998C)
6 07/04/2015 15:25:48.2289147 Device detection done
7 07/04/2015 15:25:48.2319151 Get VendorID=0x1002 DeviceID=0x67B1
8 07/04/2015 15:25:48.2364157 Error while reading value from registry Device Description (The specified registry key does not exist.)
9 07/04/2015 15:25:48.2629190 SMAA Custom=[]
10 07/04/2015 15:25:48.2649193 SSAO: Disabled UseAO: False UseAO: -1
11 07/04/2015 15:25:48.2709200 RegisterFileAssociations Enter
12 07/04/2015 15:25:48.2739204 RegisterFileAssociations Leave
13 07/04/2015 15:25:48.2979235 Creating Remoting Server
14 07/04/2015 15:25:48.3044243 Signaling Start
15 07/04/2015 15:25:48.3049244 Initializando Shared Memory
16 07/04/2015 15:25:48.3054244 Initialization Done
17 07/04/2015 15:25:48.3054244 BaseForm Leave
18 07/04/2015 15:25:48.3989363 Can't create main window
19 07/04/2015 15:25:48.3989363 Opening registry HKCU\Software\RadeonPro for writing
20 07/04/2015 15:25:48.3989363 Registry opened for writing
21 07/04/2015 15:25:48.3989363 Check for InterfaceSkin

----------------------
CpuCores: 8
Installed drivers: aticfx64, aticfx64, aticfx64, aticfx32, aticfx32, aticfx32, atiumd64, atidxx64, atidxx64, atiumdag, atidxx32, atidxx32, atiumdva, atiumd6a, atitmm64
Main Device Registry Key: System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{A34689C9-F487-4D7B-80AB-37EA35DAD33E}\0000
Main Display Adapter: AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
PNPDeviceID: PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_67B1&SUBSYS_E283174B&REV_00\4&1286464&0&0008
GPU:
Video Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics Processor (0x67B1)
Video Driver: Catalyst 14.12 AMD Catalyst Omega Software (14.501.1003-141120a-177998C)
-- End Report ------------

Any Ideas?

 

[shankly1985]

CCC v-sync only does OpenGL, but radeonpros got a v-sync option, which works in everything as far as im aware, or D3DOverrider if it'll work.

Vsync in CCC does DX also, its Triple Buffering that is for OpenGL only.