KeroBuni

Oof, I figured, well, the bright side of this is that I got a new job, and that fat check is coming in tomorrow so, the replacement is already bought and on its way. This is just a sad day,

The symptoms started about a week ago, where my 1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD started going on the fritz. I noticed it when I tried running a game of League of Legends and suddenly a lot of my program icons were replaced with "Blank Page" Icons and when I'd try to run it, I received a little window asking me to browse for the file because it was not able to find it. I run my OS off an ssd, so my browsers and other light programs still run fine. I just can't get into any of my files in the hard drive, nor can I actually do anything to it. I've tried just about every trouble shooting article out there and I've decided to give in and ask my one beacon of hope before I just buy a new one. I don't have a LOT of stuff on the hard drive, but it would just be a pain in the ass to not be able to recover my files before dumping it, sentimental stuff. I'll post pics of all the error messages and weird shit I've seen since this started happening. I do want to note, that this pc I am using is made of 90% used parts, and I wouldn't be surprised if I am just experiencing hard drive failure due to wear and tear from the previous owner, who was a pc and gaming enthusiast. On the off chances that I could get my HDD to work, I noticed a HUGE blow to performance, certain parts of my games were being really glitchy and slow, my load times also took a massive cut once these problems started cropping up. In this image I left it mostly uncropped so you could see the files running off my SSD and the files running off my HDD. What the actual hell is going on and what can I do to salvage my data, since it's pretty clear I'm not gonna be able to get this hard drive back to running as normal.

according to my games I'm getting close if not slightly above 120FPS, I do not have triple buffer or vsync enabled which is something another member suggested so I'll definitely be checking in once I play with that a bit.

I have not tried triple buffering but I'll definitely try both of those options you mentioned and see if it works !

According to my game's performance stat display it says I'm getting ~120, I initially disabled SLI because I had a suspicion it was causing a majority of the tearing, when I did the problem became less noticeable. I wouldn't put it past my pc if the old cpu just can't keep up, which will be getting replaced soon anyway either with an i7 or one of the newer ryzen cpu's ^^ Thank you for the insight though, I'll keep fiddling with it. It's definitely a learning process!

I am aware it is not a Gsync monitor. If you read carefully, you'd see that I mentioned my SLI is DISABLED.

Solution: It was suggested that I enable Vsync along with triple buffering and I noticed a significant improvement. There is still jitter which I assume is just my game at that point. Either way, huge improvements ! BIG THANKS TO THOSE OF YOU WHO HELPED OUT ! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hello, I'm new here so I'll try to keep this prompt. I recently purchased a new monitor, the Acer GN246HL BBID 24-Inch 3D Gaming Display with 144hz refresh rate to be exact. I familiarized myself with the specs but as someone who's still very new to PC building and in-depth competency in general, I seem to have found myself in a bit of a bind. I bought this monitor both for the price and generally good reviews although now that I've installed it I am noticing that my image is not quite as smooth as I expected. I had a good reference point to go off of when I replaced my temp monitor (It was loaned to me by a friend with the intent to be returned once I got a new monitor). The old Viewsonic I was using was a 60hz monitor, which the Acer obviously out performed. I've gamed on my friend's pc before, he runs a BenQ monitor and the quality is superb on it, no tearing whatsoever. So comparing that to what I'm currently using I've noticed that I still see choppy images, though not quite as bad as when I was using the 60hz. Still though, I paid for 144hz to get a buttery smooth experience. tl;dr My monitor is 144Hz yet I am still experiencing a choppy picture, how can I solve this? A list of what I have tried to remedy this: I made sure both my Nvidia and computer display settings were set to the proper refresh rate. I've adjusted a majority of the games I play to handle said refresh rate. Made sure that my dual link cable was properly plugged in and snug fit both in my pc and my monitor. I've checked other forums for possible fixes but none seem to have a similar monitor so the process could not be replicated. I have a suspicion that perhaps my graphics cards are the culprits ? MAYBE ? Running dual 660Ti's with an SLI bridge (currently disabled) CPU is an AMD FX 8350 running at 4.42 GHz Any help or pointers are greatly appreciated, my system was handed down to me by my friend, so I am fully prepared to be told it's just the age of my parts that might be causing problems but would still like expert opinions before I go buying new pieces.