Screen tear on Skyrim and other games

[peril1337]

I have been upgrading my computer. I recently upgraded to a six core AMD cpu and got a 1TB hard drive on an ASUS M5A97 mobo. My video card is a GeForce 550TI. I redownloaded Skyrim to play and I have been experiencing screen tearing on Skyrim, World of Warplanes, and a couple other games. I have updated my computer with most updates, have most recent video card drivers, updated Bios and got most recent updates for the motherboard. I have not overclocked any piece of my hardware. In the Nvidia control panel I have made sure that the V-sinc is enable specifically for the skyrim game. My monitor is set to 60mz and I make sure the game FPS does not go over that. It looks fine in windowed mode, no screen tears but full screen it is tearing. I have put back my old hard drive, it does the same thing. I have lowered the refresh rate of the monitor to 59, no difference, I have tried playing with no Aero on, basic settings on the desktop no difference. There are no other programs interfering, as much as I can tell. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I am also going to download the application that lets you play in windowed mode with no borders, but I would rather find a solution that would fix it.

 

[The_OGS]

I have been upgrading my computer. I recently upgraded to a six core AMD cpu and got a 1TB hard drive on an ASUS M5A97 mobo. My video card is a GeForce 550TI. I redownloaded Skyrim to play and I have been experiencing screen tearing on Skyrim, World of Warplanes, and a couple other games. I have updated my computer with most updates, have most recent video card drivers, updated Bios and got most recent updates for the motherboard. I have not overclocked any piece of my hardware. In the Nvidia control panel I have made sure that the V-sinc is enable specifically for the skyrim game. My monitor is set to 60mz and I make sure the game FPS does not go over that. It looks fine in windowed mode, no screen tears but full screen it is tearing. I have put back my old hard drive, it does the same thing. I have lowered the refresh rate of the monitor to 59, no difference, I have tried playing with no Aero on, basic settings on the desktop no difference. There are no other programs interfering, as much as I can tell. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I am also going to download the application that lets you play in windowed mode with no borders, but I would rather find a solution that would fix it.

It is when your FPS falls below 60 that you will see tearing. Over 60 FPS is not a problem! It's the solution.
If your average FPS is over 60 and your minimums at times ~45-50, you're in pretty good shape since 90% of the game will be good for you.
But a drop in FPS is to be expected during busy scenes (big fights etc.) so you need to keep your FPS nice and high, in anticipation of this.
Try to keep your absolute minimum FPS at 50 or higher.
Disabling AA will help with this, especially since most play at 1920x1080 native resolution (so don't really need it).
Also start with the Medium preset (not Ultra!) with all the viewing distances manually dragged to Long.
No AA, Medium preset; confirm nice high framerate and smooth, fluid gameplay.
If you have FPS 'in your pocket' (never dropping below 60) you can push harder settings, ie. High preset with Long distances.
If yer rig's still hanging in there, then good!
Note: Beware NVidia's automatic thing which will set you up for 40 FPS average. This is quite insufficient for a VSynched game, and you will see tearing...
Hope this helps, L8R

 

[peril1337]

I have been upgrading my computer. I recently upgraded to a six core AMD cpu and got a 1TB hard drive on an ASUS M5A97 mobo. My video card is a GeForce 550TI. I redownloaded Skyrim to play and I have been experiencing screen tearing on Skyrim, World of Warplanes, and a couple other games. I have updated my computer with most updates, have most recent video card drivers, updated Bios and got most recent updates for the motherboard. I have not overclocked any piece of my hardware. In the Nvidia control panel I have made sure that the V-sinc is enable specifically for the skyrim game. My monitor is set to 60mz and I make sure the game FPS does not go over that. It looks fine in windowed mode, no screen tears but full screen it is tearing. I have put back my old hard drive, it does the same thing. I have lowered the refresh rate of the monitor to 59, no difference, I have tried playing with no Aero on, basic settings on the desktop no difference. There are no other programs interfering, as much as I can tell. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I am also going to download the application that lets you play in windowed mode with no borders, but I would rather find a solution that would fix it.

It is when your FPS falls below 60 that you will see tearing. Over 60 FPS is not a problem! It's the solution.
If your average FPS is over 60 and your minimums at times ~45-50, you're in pretty good shape since 90% of the game will be good for you.
But a drop in FPS is to be expected during busy scenes (big fights etc.) so you need to keep your FPS nice and high, in anticipation of this.
Try to keep your absolute minimum FPS at 50 or higher.
Disabling AA will help with this, especially since most play at 1920x1080 native resolution (so don't really need it).
Also start with the Medium preset (not Ultra!) with all the viewing distances manually dragged to Long.
No AA, Medium preset; confirm nice high framerate and smooth, fluid gameplay.
If you have FPS 'in your pocket' (never dropping below 60) you can push harder settings, ie. High preset with Long distances.
If yer rig's still hanging in there, then good!
Note: Beware NVidia's automatic thing which will set you up for 40 FPS average. This is quite insufficient for a VSynched game, and you will see tearing...
Hope this helps, L8R

 

[peril1337]

I tried your suggestion, but when the FPS was high it caused some texture problems, even after turning those settings down. I downloaded an application that plays the game in borderless windowed mode which I really did not want to but I can play it and have no tears. I preferred not to do that but I can play it with no issues, so I guess I am stuck doing that.