Screen tearing everywhere

[The Belgian Waffle]

Hi guys, I hope I'm not in the wrong sub-forum.

Basically, there's screen tearing everywhere (except in games LOL). If I have triple buffering (dunno if very useful) and adaptive vSync on, the screen doesn't tear in games, but it tears everywhere else, even when those settings are off

It happens especially in YouTube, tho.

[DragonTamer1]

Screen tearing comes from a monitor and Gpu refresshing at a different rate than the application. It sounds like youtube is not working with adaprive sync. Try limiting your frame rate on the desktop to 60 and see what that does.

[The Belgian Waffle]

1 hour ago, DragonTamer1 said:

Screen tearing comes from a monitor and Gpu refresshing at a different rate than the application. It sounds like youtube is not working with adaprive sync. Try limiting your frame rate on the desktop to 60 and see what that does.

I have a 2008 SyncMaster that's still rocking, but it's clocked at 59Hz

[DragonTamer1]

8 minutes ago, The Belgian Waffle said:

I have a 2008 SyncMaster that's still rocking, but it's clocked at 59Hz

59 is its maximum refresh rate?

[The Belgian Waffle]

14 hours ago, DragonTamer1 said:

59 is its maximum refresh rate?

Yes, I think so.
It's this one : https://www.cnet.com/products/samsung-syncmaster-2232bw-lcd-monitor-22/specs/

Still no idea how it ain't dead

[DragonTamer1]

9 hours ago, The Belgian Waffle said:

Yes, I think so.
It's this one : https://www.cnet.com/products/samsung-syncmaster-2232bw-lcd-monitor-22/specs/

Still no idea how it ain't dead

That would probably be why then, Youtube is trying to satisfy a refresh rate of 60Hz but it is refreshing at a rate of 59Hz. That 1Hz is enough to cause screen tearing in video playback.

 

I had two monitors recently that were supplied through a displayport to VGA adapter and they experienced screen tearing as well because of the slight delay added from the adapter (59.94Hz instead of 60).

[The Belgian Waffle]

1 hour ago, DragonTamer1 said:

That would probably be why then, Youtube is trying to satisfy a refresh rate of 60Hz but it is refreshing at a rate of 59Hz. That 1Hz is enough to cause screen tearing in video playback.

 

I had two monitors recently that were supplied through a displayport to VGA adapter and they experienced screen tearing as well because of the slight delay added from the adapter (59.94Hz instead of 60).

That's pretty sweet lol.

Do I have a solution? Can I cap programs (and maybe games) at 59Hz?

[DragonTamer1]

You can cap games to 59 FPS, Vsync should also still work with it. There isn't really anything you can do about other applications as far as I know.

[Intel HD Graphics]

On 8/23/2017 at 3:06 AM, The Belgian Waffle said:

Hi guys, I hope I'm not in the wrong sub-forum.

Basically, there's screen tearing everywhere (except in games LOL). If I have triple buffering (dunno if very useful) and adaptive vSync on, the screen doesn't tear in games, but it tears everywhere else, even when those settings are off

It happens especially in YouTube, tho.

Have you overlcocked your gpu

[The Belgian Waffle]

7 hours ago, Intel HD Graphics said:

Have you overlcocked your gpu

No I haven't  (It's a 660 Ti)

[The Belgian Waffle]

7 hours ago, DragonTamer1 said:

You can cap games to 59 FPS, Vsync should also still work with it. There isn't really anything you can do about other applications as far as I know.

I use adaptive vSync so it doesn't lower my FPS at 30 in games and it works, except from time to time where I guess it takes time to kick in.