Video problem with xbox 360 only on 2 games

Dmack · 19 May 2009 at 18:45

Hi guys i currently run my xbox via HDMI on a Samsung 40" 1080p tv....

All games run fine on my tv except Dead Rising (max output 1080i) and resident evil 5 (obviously can run on 1080p)...

When i play either game at certain times eg cut scenes etc the image starts to tear (i'll try and get some pictures taken) but like at the top quarter of the screen it there will be like a cut in the image with both sides of the cut not insync. Like i said i only get it with these 2 games... played loads of games and movies on my tv in the last half a year and no problems.

Any clue at all to what the problem could be ?? i thought it was just dead rising until i bought resident evil 5...

Thanks in adv

peahead · 19 May 2009 at 19:27

Hi

The screen tearing you are seeing is because capcom has disabled a feature called v-sync in those games this helps to keep the framerate up but it also causes screen tearing which is what you are seeing.

so basically capcom couldnt get there game engine to run smoothly with v-sync turned on so they disabled it and there nothing we can do about it its just something we have to put up with.

Dmack · 19 May 2009 at 20:25

thanks for the reply, didn't know it was a common thing, just searched online abit, some people say you can fix it if you set it to 720p... i'll try that, ty

peahead · 19 May 2009 at 21:08

let us now if it works ty.

Dmack · 24 May 2009 at 19:03

yeh 1080i works perfectly