GTX 970 Screen Tearing

[Speeny]

Hi there.

To start, I'm not very tech savvy. I had a friend build my rig for me.

I've had it since early 2015.

Specs:

Operating System
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core i7 4790K @ 4.00GHz 25 °C
Haswell 22nm Technology
RAM
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 666MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Z97X-Gaming 3 (SOCKET 0) 30 °C
Graphics
27MP75 (1920x1080@60Hz)
Intel HD Graphics 4600 (Gigabyte)
4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (Gigabyte) 37 °C
ForceWare version: 397.64
SLI Disabled
Storage
238GB Samsung SSD 850 PRO 256G SCSI Disk Device (SSD) 22 °C
1862GB Western Digital WD Elements 25A3 USB Device (USB (SATA)) 21 °C
Optical Drives
HL-DT-ST BD-RE BH16NS40 SCSI CdRom Device
Audio
NVIDIA High Definition Audio


I've recently noticed that screen tearing has become quite a problem. (Only this year as far as I'm aware.)

I'm using an LG IPS Monitor MP75 that I've had since 2013. It's 60hz. Got it running through a HDMI into the 970.

Vsync is something that I don't really like to turn on for everything.
I don't play modern games often but I do like to emulate on Dolphin and PPSSPP.

So my question is, why am I experiencing screen tearing only now? Is it that my hardware is just getting old? I haven't used it very heavily through the years.

Help would be appreciated...cheers.

 

[SkyNetRising]

So my question is, why am I experiencing screen tearing only now? Is it that my hardware is just getting old?

Probably before this you were fine with vsync enabled. Now you have disabled it and experiencing screen tearing.
Turn on adaptive vsync and/or upgrade your monitor to high refresh model 120,144,165Hz.

 

[boju]

Adaptive as said or Fastsync.

Can also use tools such as Nvidia Inspector to limit fps. Idea is to hard limit fps to 58 or 59 and use Vsync. Little trick with the extra frame creating a phantom buffer between GPU and monitor and wont have vsync input lag.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/NVIDIA-Inspector.shtml

 

[Speeny]

Adaptive as said or Fastsync.

Can also use tools such as Nvidia Inspector to limit fps. Idea is to hard limit fps to 58 or 59 and use Vsync. Little trick with the extra frame creating a phantom buffer between GPU and monitor and wont have vsync input lag.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/NVIDIA-Inspector.shtml

Unfortunately even with adaptive vsync on in the NVIDIA control panel...no difference.

If I were to upgrade my monitor to one with a higher refresh rate than 60 it would solve my issue?

 

[boju]

Higher Hz monitor would help. 60Hz monitors when gpu saturates more frames it can handle is like cutting magazine pages in half and sticky taping different pages together. Get tearing as images on screen aren't complete. Happens so fast it just looks like screen tearing.

Before you consider do try Nvidia inspector, cap the fps to 59 and turn on vsync.

 

[boju]

Ingame fps commands also, Nvidia inspector good for games you cant adjust.