- Sep 3, 2011
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I've never messed around much with resolutions and refresh rates, and I've recently come into an odd problem. I got a GTX 970 back in November and it's been running awesome, along with the rest of my rig, but just in the last month or so I've experienced blinking horizontal lines in certain games (Inquisition, Guild Wars 2) as well as my web browser. My monitor is a Samsung Syncmaster 2232BW running at 1680x1050 (native, unchanged for years). Nothing is overclocked.
In Inquisition I can address the problem by lowering the game's resolution to 1280x960 @ 60hz -- anything over this causes the tearing (if that's even what to call it). VSYNC seems to have no effect on either of the games mentioned. Disabling hardware acceleration in Firefox has no effect. State of Decay seems to run fine at native resolution with VSYNC (haven't tried without it). It's also worth mentioning that the "tearing" is not picked up by Shadowplay or screenshots, and that if I run Inquisition in windowed mode, the tearing occurs on the whole screen, not just the game window, yet does not occur on the desktop if the game is minimized. GW2 displays totally different strange behavior because the glitch only occurs on the map screen, and only when zoomed out, but is again fixed by lowering the resolution.
My only guess is that my monitor is getting old, but I would expect a monitor problem to occur at all times, in all games, and probably the desktop as well, no? Google hasn't been much help since the problem is not easily described, so if anyone has any guesses, I would love to hear them.
Windows 7 64
ASUS P67 mobo
i5 2500k @3.3G
8G Ram
Corsair 950w PSU
In Inquisition I can address the problem by lowering the game's resolution to 1280x960 @ 60hz -- anything over this causes the tearing (if that's even what to call it). VSYNC seems to have no effect on either of the games mentioned. Disabling hardware acceleration in Firefox has no effect. State of Decay seems to run fine at native resolution with VSYNC (haven't tried without it). It's also worth mentioning that the "tearing" is not picked up by Shadowplay or screenshots, and that if I run Inquisition in windowed mode, the tearing occurs on the whole screen, not just the game window, yet does not occur on the desktop if the game is minimized. GW2 displays totally different strange behavior because the glitch only occurs on the map screen, and only when zoomed out, but is again fixed by lowering the resolution.
My only guess is that my monitor is getting old, but I would expect a monitor problem to occur at all times, in all games, and probably the desktop as well, no? Google hasn't been much help since the problem is not easily described, so if anyone has any guesses, I would love to hear them.
Windows 7 64
ASUS P67 mobo
i5 2500k @3.3G
8G Ram
Corsair 950w PSU
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