Screen tearing on anything below 60FPS

[RobiSean]

I run an NVIDIA GTX TITAN which I've had since 2013. It's in a GIGABYTE GA-78LMT-USB3. I have an AMD FX-8150 clocked to 3.8 GHz.

Recently I've been noticing a problem in which whenever I'm watching videos that are below 60 frames per second, ie. most YouTube videos, as well as movies.

Ingame it appears to be fine, but I may have noticed some tearing here and there when I experienced frame drops.

If the video I'm watching is 60FPS, however, no tearing occurs. I recorded a video of what it looks like on my phone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwQ6q2t2xTY

As you can see, it's only one tear, and it's pretty bad. It's always in exactly the same spot, and it happens regardless of what program I'm watching the video in, whether it's Chrome, Firefox or VLC Media player.

To cover some things that I have tried that we can rule out, because whenever I try to find a solution for this problem I find nothing but these suggestions:

-Windows Aero is on, and turning it off doesn't change anything.
-This has been confirmed to happen on more than one monitor, even a brand new one I purchased.
-Turning on global VSync, Adaptive VSync or Triple Buffering does nothing to fix the problem.
-I am using a dual monitor setup, and disabling one monitor does nothing.
-Both monitors are connected using DVI. Changing to HDMI does nothing.

I am beginning to think it's the GPU's fault. Does anyone else have something to try?

 

[Reaper_7799]

It's more likely the monitor, what monitors do you have and are they only 60 hz and what resolution and response time? I get tearing like that in some games on my 60hz monitor with 5ms response but I've never seen a tear like that while watching a video or something like that. It doesn't tear as much on my 144hz monitor with 1ms response time though compared to 60hz and neither of these monitors are G sync, I'm waiting for the acer 34" g sync coming out soon cause the tearing in games is annoying.

 

[RobiSean]

It's more likely the monitor, what monitors do you have and are they only 60 hz and what resolution and response time? I get tearing like that in some games on my 60hz monitor with 5ms response but I've never seen a tear like that while watching a video or something like that. It doesn't tear as much on my 144hz monitor with 1ms response time though compared to 60hz and neither of these monitors are G sync, I'm waiting for the acer 34" g sync coming out soon cause the tearing in games is annoying.

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236117&_ga=1.55044203.1544574011.1443402150

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824014374&_ga=1.11438964.1544574011.1443402150

These are the two monitors. The BenQ is the primary monitor on which the tearing is happening, but it is confirmed to happen on both. It's why I bought the BenQ, to test if it was in fact the monitor.

 

[RobiSean]

Oh, I should also mention that the tearing mostly happens on the primary display.

 

[Reaper_7799]

Ya know, the more I looked into it last night, there were a lot of people with these issues and it seemed to have stemmed from some settings in windows performance vs quality. I know you've tried with aero on and off but I'd double check everything again and try different settings, make sure nvidia control panel, everything is set to very high quality or whatever too.

Fortunately it's only in games for me and that has to do with the monitor and as much as I tried to replicate tearing in videos with different settings, I couldn't do it.

 

[Reaper_7799]

I don't know if it does anything or if you've tried but there is a setting in nvidia control panel to adjust video image settings and it lets you either use the video player or nvidia to process it, it's worth a shot since you've been trying everything under the sun.

EDIT: Nevermind it doesn't do anything for me.