New system screen tearing

chewz

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Just bought a new system off ebay. Specs are below.

I am experiencing pretty bad screen tearing. It is not the monitor. The monitor has been tested on my older computer and does not have the same effect. It's a viewsonic vx2270 latest drivers 60hz.

I notice it quite strongly in games but used a simple YouTube video to really be able to notice it. I recorded the monitor on the new computer running the screen tear test and then on my old computer. You can clearly see the problem.

video1: (new pc) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myIMgCWzrxo
video2: (old pc) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d50dBE-IWPo

The old pc is nvidia based, this is ati/amd. If the issue isn't the monitor, is it deffinitely the graphics card?



Intel i7 4770 Quad Core 3.4Ghz Processor
16GB DDR3 1333Mhz RAM
AMD HD7870 2GB DDR5 Graphics Card
2TB SATA Hard Drive
DVD-RW Dual Layer Optical Disc Drive
MSI H81M-E33 uATX Motherboard
650W Power Supply
High Quality Vantage BLUE Desktop PC Gaming Case
Gigabit 10 / 100 / 1000 Ethernet Port
2 X ULTRA High Speed USB 3.0 Ports
4 X High Speed USB 2.0 Ports on Back Plus 2 On Front
8 Channel HD Audio
2 X SATA III 6GB/s Ports
2 X SATA II 3GB/s Ports
1 X PCI Express X16 Slot
1 X PCI Express X1 Slot
1 X PS/2 Port (For Keyboard / Mouse)
1 X DVI Port
1 X HDMI Port (With Audio Over HDMI Support)
2 X Mini Display Port

It's driving me crazy, can't enjoy the new pc till it's fixed!
 
Solution
Are you running the same version of Windows and the same settings?

You should also ensure you have hardware acceleration(for flash) and Aero(Win Vista/7. 8 does not call it aero, but as long as you are not on the Windows basic theme, it should be on) hardware acceleration for windows on as it removed screen tearing.
Are you running the same version of Windows and the same settings?

You should also ensure you have hardware acceleration(for flash) and Aero(Win Vista/7. 8 does not call it aero, but as long as you are not on the Windows basic theme, it should be on) hardware acceleration for windows on as it removed screen tearing.
 
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chewz

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Thanks so much, for some reason aero was disabled. The screen tearing on the desktop has gone away!. I'm not sure this will fix it happening in a game such as battlefield 4. I'll have to check later on, many thanks.
 
For games you need to enable an option called vsync or play the games in a window or fake full screen/windowed full screen. Windowed and fake full screen can have other considerations, so try full screen + vsync first.

Hard to imagine that every version of Windows before Vista had page tearing on most day to day activities(Video players and programs that could use hardware acceleration would be ok, but almost everything else did not have any way to prevent this.).