Screen Tearing

[Rowan88]

Hi,

I have noticed in a few of my games I see a bit of screen tearing. Most games I have run between 50-150 FPS with it off.

When I turn V-Sync on it does eliminate the tearing but reduces my FPS to 30 which I see a noticeable difference in game play/smoothness.

Is there any other way to combat this without losing performance over visual?

 

[Mauller]

what is your monitors refresh rate? if you have an nvidia card you could use adaptive v-sync or even fast sync. otherwise if you have an AMD card, i just tend to use a frame limiter and set it to a frame below my monitors refresh.

 

[LeMson]

Is your monitor running at 30hz? Would explain the tearing when your fps is higher

 

[Blackjack Davy]

Hi,

I have noticed in a few of my games I see a bit of screen tearing. Most games I have run between 50-150 FPS with it off.

When I turn V-Sync on it does eliminate the tearing but reduces my FPS to 30 which I see a noticeable difference in game play/smoothness.

Is there any other way to combat this without losing performance over visual?

Vsync will stop tearing thats it purpose. Which games are you playing and whats your monitor resolution? FO4 will only play at 30fps for me with an UW monitor with Vsync enabled. At 1080p which is its maximum official resolution it will play at 60fps.

 

[Rowan88]

Sorry for the late reply..

My monitor is set to 59 hertz but can go to 60.

So am I best just going into AMD Catalyst and looking for the "Frame rate target control" and settings it to 60 along with my monitor refresh rate?

 

[KNiVES]

Sorry for the late reply..

My monitor is set to 59 hertz but can go to 60.

So am I best just going into AMD Catalyst and looking for the "Frame rate target control" and settings it to 60 along with my monitor refresh rate?

You need to set monitor at 60 hertz, otherwise vsync will run at 30 frames per second. There's no reason for it to be at 59.

Vsync has to run in multiples of 30 (30 frames per second, 60fps, 120fps, etc) unless it's on a monitor with variable refresh rate (such as freesync and gsync). If the game runs under 60 frames per second it will go down all the way to 30 to work with vsync. Because your monitor is 59 hertz refresh, that's making your games run at 30. Setting the refresh rate to 60 should double frame rates but there is a downside, you will notice some input lag.

 

[Rowan88]

So my only choice is either:

1) Set monitor to 60hertz, Set AMD to either Frame limit of 60 or Vsync enabled ... this will fix tearing but create input lag
or
2) Set monitor to 60hertz, Keep Frame limiter and Vsync disabled.. this will keep smooth performance but screen tearing

 

[Kelt]

If you use vsync don't forget to enable triple buffering.

 

[Rowan88]

What does that do?