"Shimmering" lines in games on TFT

Magister · 16 Jun 2007 at 19:49

In games, whenever I move around I get "shimmering" vertical lines moving up the screen like the image is not quite in sync (or something). Is this normal and if not is there a way to fix it?

This is on a Samsung 206BW 20".

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Zefan · 16 Jun 2007 at 19:50

You can turn on v-sync.

It's commonly known as tearing.

squiffy · 16 Jun 2007 at 19:51

Is vsync enabled in the game? If it isn't you'll get horinzontal tearing.

Jokester · 16 Jun 2007 at 19:51

Yeah, that's exactly what it is, to stop it happening enable Vsync in your drivers or in the game options.

Jokester

Magister · 16 Jun 2007 at 19:54

Hmm, I thought it was that so I turned v-sync on (and forced it on in the nvidia settings) and I'm still getting it really badly in Prey.

Ah, I just discovered this is a common problem with Prey and Doom 3-based games:

http://www.tweakguides.com/Prey_6.html

Some people have noticed the excessive level of tearing visible in the starting sequence of Prey and at certain points in the game, whether on an LCD or CRT monitor. Tearing was a problem in the original Doom 3, and is now even more apparent in Prey because many modern systems now easily push the 60FPS hard cap of the Doom 3 engine.

Black Dog · 19 Jun 2007 at 15:24

You need to change the command : swapinterval 0 to swapinterval 1 in the config file.