Is screen tearing common?

[Knaj]

I've never had screen tearing on my old mac, my current mac, and even my current PC. I've never actually seen it happen outside of youtube videos.

 

Is it not actually that common or am I just really lucky?

[Godlygamer23]

Have you played video games on your PC without V-Sync?

[Hoppa]

It's most common when running 2 or more GPUs in xfire or sli.

[Knaj]

1 minute ago, Godlygamer23 said:

Have you played video games on your PC without V-Sync?

I never use V-Sync because I've never had screen tearing.

[Godlygamer23]

1 minute ago, Knaj said:

I never use V-Sync because I've never had screen tearing.

Some games suffer from it worse than others. Disabling V-Sync for example during cutscenes in Arkham City results in horrific tearing on a 60Hz display due to the frame rate locking to 30.

[HPWebcamAble]

11 minutes ago, Knaj said:

Is it not actually that common or am I just really lucky?

It depends on the game, for me at least

 

Space engineers is the worst I've personally played. It's not terrible, but it is there.

(And turning on v-sync creates horrible input lag, so I just live with a bit of screen tearing)

[VZX]

I can only say you play games that your GPU have no problem pushing over 60fps almost all the time.

Tearing is still there, but less visible if your FPS above 60 @60Hz.

 

Try playing game that can brought your FPS below 60 and have slower scene movement, you should notice it.