Hi. I am new to this forum, so if this question is in the wrong place, I apologize.
As of July, my PC has been suffering from a sort of jittering, and a number of games are suffering from screen tearing. I've done a lot to attempt to counteract these problems but everything I've tried hasn't seemed to produce any positive results. I've also searched this as well as a number of other tech forums for answers, and a lot of things which I tried didn't help.
I'm hoping to get some help with locating the source of the problem and fixing it.
Some info:
- This problem appeared two months ago in July, and over the year before that, my PC never had any problems.
- I began noticing problems when Firefox's scrolling became jittery. I searched up a multitude of possible causes, none of which seemed to remedy the problem. At that time, a number of my games began slowing down as well, and were beginning to drop frames as well as suffer from lower framerates. I managed to remedy the framerate drops by defragmenting my system with Defraggler, but the microstuttering and screen tearing is persistent.
- I cleaned out the interior of my PC (which was very dusty at the time) with the help of a friend.
- I regularly run CCleaner.
- I completely wiped my computer and did a fresh reinstall of Windows 7 which didn't seem to help.
- I've ran multiple scans with MalwareBytes, TDSSKiller, ComboFix and Avast!. ComboFix is the only program which heeded any results.
- I'm running on a Geforce GT 545, inside of an Alienware which I purchased last year. I'm not sure which other specs would be useful to post here, and if any are needed I will gladly display them.
- I've tried reverting to an older NVIDIA driver as well as updating to the newest one.
- All of my other programs (to my knowledge) are up to date.
Here's a little more information about the screen tearing.
- Team Fortress 2 and World of Warcraft suffer terribly from it. I don't play many other games.
- In the above games, vsync and triple buffering don't help, and generally cause input lag.
- The screen tearing in both games is easily noticeable when rounding corners, as things get really fragmented and glitchy.
- Lowing options doesn't seem to have an effect on either game. There's just as much screen tear with maxed out settings.
- Adding a framerate cap doesn't help.
- A few games don't seem to be affected at all - Dota 2 and Bit.Trip Runner 2 are good examples. I can play both fine with no problems at all.
About the jittering:
- As I mentioned above, I first noticed this problem when Firefox's scrolling became jittery, and pages began to load slower. It's still suffering from the same problem, and I've switched to Chrome which does a good job of masking it. Scrolling is still very choppy, but pages load much faster and smoother. Before this problem, Firefox loaded things without any trouble.
- The jittering applies to a few things: mainly web browsing and World of Warcraft. I can smoothen things out by capping Warcraft's framerate at 60, but the screen tearing becomes unbearable, and the stutters which I get when loading things for the first time is massive.
- On rare occasions, the jitters will subside for a short while, only to come back a bit later. This usually happens when scrolling or just watching a YouTube video. This led me to believe I had an infection, but nothing seemed to come up when I ran scans.
- My PC has also experienced occasional freezes - notably an hour or so ago, when I tried to start up Warcraft. After freezing for around 10 seconds, my framerate took a massive drop. I went into TF2 to make sure it wasn't a WoW specific problem, and the problem persisted. Restarting my computer put things seemed to fix things.
I'm honestly wondering if one of my internal components is damaged and needs replacing.
- So pretty much, I'm looking to get help with my screen tearing/stuttering issues.
~ If anyone has any solutions I'd really love to hear them! Thank you.
As of July, my PC has been suffering from a sort of jittering, and a number of games are suffering from screen tearing. I've done a lot to attempt to counteract these problems but everything I've tried hasn't seemed to produce any positive results. I've also searched this as well as a number of other tech forums for answers, and a lot of things which I tried didn't help.
I'm hoping to get some help with locating the source of the problem and fixing it.
Some info:
- This problem appeared two months ago in July, and over the year before that, my PC never had any problems.
- I began noticing problems when Firefox's scrolling became jittery. I searched up a multitude of possible causes, none of which seemed to remedy the problem. At that time, a number of my games began slowing down as well, and were beginning to drop frames as well as suffer from lower framerates. I managed to remedy the framerate drops by defragmenting my system with Defraggler, but the microstuttering and screen tearing is persistent.
- I cleaned out the interior of my PC (which was very dusty at the time) with the help of a friend.
- I regularly run CCleaner.
- I completely wiped my computer and did a fresh reinstall of Windows 7 which didn't seem to help.
- I've ran multiple scans with MalwareBytes, TDSSKiller, ComboFix and Avast!. ComboFix is the only program which heeded any results.
- I'm running on a Geforce GT 545, inside of an Alienware which I purchased last year. I'm not sure which other specs would be useful to post here, and if any are needed I will gladly display them.
- I've tried reverting to an older NVIDIA driver as well as updating to the newest one.
- All of my other programs (to my knowledge) are up to date.
Here's a little more information about the screen tearing.
- Team Fortress 2 and World of Warcraft suffer terribly from it. I don't play many other games.
- In the above games, vsync and triple buffering don't help, and generally cause input lag.
- The screen tearing in both games is easily noticeable when rounding corners, as things get really fragmented and glitchy.
- Lowing options doesn't seem to have an effect on either game. There's just as much screen tear with maxed out settings.
- Adding a framerate cap doesn't help.
- A few games don't seem to be affected at all - Dota 2 and Bit.Trip Runner 2 are good examples. I can play both fine with no problems at all.
About the jittering:
- As I mentioned above, I first noticed this problem when Firefox's scrolling became jittery, and pages began to load slower. It's still suffering from the same problem, and I've switched to Chrome which does a good job of masking it. Scrolling is still very choppy, but pages load much faster and smoother. Before this problem, Firefox loaded things without any trouble.
- The jittering applies to a few things: mainly web browsing and World of Warcraft. I can smoothen things out by capping Warcraft's framerate at 60, but the screen tearing becomes unbearable, and the stutters which I get when loading things for the first time is massive.
- On rare occasions, the jitters will subside for a short while, only to come back a bit later. This usually happens when scrolling or just watching a YouTube video. This led me to believe I had an infection, but nothing seemed to come up when I ran scans.
- My PC has also experienced occasional freezes - notably an hour or so ago, when I tried to start up Warcraft. After freezing for around 10 seconds, my framerate took a massive drop. I went into TF2 to make sure it wasn't a WoW specific problem, and the problem persisted. Restarting my computer put things seemed to fix things.
I'm honestly wondering if one of my internal components is damaged and needs replacing.
- So pretty much, I'm looking to get help with my screen tearing/stuttering issues.
~ If anyone has any solutions I'd really love to hear them! Thank you.
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