Need URGENT help with new card. Unidentifiable screen tearing, low fps, etc.

Marshall Hurtado

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I just received my EVGA 760 which I was very glad about, but I've been trying to experiment using Adaptive Vsync, as well as just general performance.



I tried assassins creed 3, need for speed rivals (i know its horribly optimized) need for speed most wanted 2012, and I just tried playing Skyrim with adaptive Vsync since I saw someone on youtube that had it working wonderfully for them, but that presented extremely low framerates and tearing predominantly under 60 fps.

I then FORCED Vsync in the nvidia panel and still had the exact same results.

my installation process for the card was uninstalling ALL old AMD drivers using the display driver uninstall tool thats so popular, it worked great, i chose to restart to make sure things were good on the uninstall front. things checked out. shut it down. threw in the new 760, turned the rig on and installed the latest beta driver from the nvidia site that i placed on the desktop just in case of graphic issues from uninstalling the old drivers. got the geforce experience, evga precision, etc.



anyone think they can help out? i really have no idea whats going on :/ could i have installed something wrong? paying assassins creed 3 seemed to yield much better framerates than my old 6870 but the tearing was just insane. i tried both monitors for all games and still the same. any ideas? id seriously appreciate it, as im just eager to game.
 
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Skyrim defaults to use vsync automatically and you can't turn it off unless you force it to go off through ini files, this is to stop the framerate going over 60FPS because the physics just go crazy when it does. Default any changes you've made to any vsync settings for Skyrim because other than the slight input lag it works fine as it is.

You probably wont see that much a performance increase in Skyrim anyway because its mostly a CPU intensive game, unless you have a crap tonne of mods installed it wont run much different to your old card.
Low FPS is because you're forcing vsync, when FPS drops below 60 the next framerate it can sync with is 30. Tearing is when you are without it, nothing you can do about it other than buy a monitor with a higher refresh.

Nvidia control panel ignores you half the time anyway, use Nvidia Inspector instead.
 

Marshall Hurtado

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i appreciate the quick response. i have this method for playing skyrim where i use a program to force it to run in fullscreen windowed which removes stuttering for me, at least i did so on my old amd card. with the old card, things were smooth and fine, no tearing or anything bad other than the low performance of the card itself, at least to my taste. but with the new 760 im seeing tearing in both adaptive vsync windowed and fullscreen, as well as traditional vsync. so im wondering if the driver im using isnt the most reliable, or if i installed it incorrectly.
 
Skyrim defaults to use vsync automatically and you can't turn it off unless you force it to go off through ini files, this is to stop the framerate going over 60FPS because the physics just go crazy when it does. Default any changes you've made to any vsync settings for Skyrim because other than the slight input lag it works fine as it is.

You probably wont see that much a performance increase in Skyrim anyway because its mostly a CPU intensive game, unless you have a crap tonne of mods installed it wont run much different to your old card.
 
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