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I been having this problem for a long time, it happens in almost every game I play. I guess it's called screen tearing? It doesn't happen all the time some, except in Fallout 4 but it only happens in certain areas of the map. Sometimes I can spin and look a different direction and it will go away. Fallout 4 and Arma III probably do it the worst.

I'm hoping someone knows some video card changes I can make to fix this.

I currently have a AMD Radeon R9 280x video card

Thanks to anyone that can help!
 
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That's not screen tearing (screen tearing looks exactly like it sounds: a physical tearing, or splitting, of the screen in half with one part of the screen tear not matching the other...think sidewalk shift after an earthquake). This is artifacting. Besides the obvious have you run the latest Catalyst driver update question, what are the temps of your 280x? Do you have the card overclocked? What GPU monitoring software are you running? Usually artifacts like this means the card is overclocked too much, the game quality settings are too high for the card, or there is physically something wrong with the card itself.
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That is NOT screen tearing.

It's either a game coding issue, GPU hardware issue (VRAM) or a video DRIVER issue.

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Screen tearing happens when you do not have VSYNC enabled. Fallout 4 has it on by default. I would however tweak the game to make sure you rarely drop below 60FPS since VSYNC ON but below the target causes missed screen updates which shows as micro stuttering.

You can also use RadeonPro to force on Dynamic VSYNC which will turn VSYNC OFF or ON. If you drop below 60FPS (for 60Hz monitor) it should turn VSYNC OFF automatically. You will get screen tearing, but not micro stuttering.
 
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For now, try turning all the settings to LOW and see if it disappears. If so, turn them on a few at a time until it reappears. I'm not sure if it's related to SHADOWS or not, but I suspect there's a setting that can be lowered or disabled that will cause it to disappear.

(or newer driver from AMD)

You might be able to Google a solution, or find it under the Steam forum for the game but I don't have the game.
 
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That's not screen tearing (screen tearing looks exactly like it sounds: a physical tearing, or splitting, of the screen in half with one part of the screen tear not matching the other...think sidewalk shift after an earthquake). This is artifacting. Besides the obvious have you run the latest Catalyst driver update question, what are the temps of your 280x? Do you have the card overclocked? What GPU monitoring software are you running? Usually artifacts like this means the card is overclocked too much, the game quality settings are too high for the card, or there is physically something wrong with the card itself.
 
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Hey,
Since the game is so NEW I suspect it's the game code or a new driver is needed that addresses any game issues on certain AMD cards.

If the card was overheating or defective I'd expect problems in other games or game benchmarks.
 
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I know it's not the game because it happens in just about every higher end game that I play.
 
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Yep, and his best bet is to get on the Steam forum and detail his hardware and Catalyst driver info. But as a former AMD card owner (6870), I did experience a stutter problem with that card in only one game (Far Cry 2) and it turned out to be a throttling issue in only that game. Nobody had ever had a similar problem nor could it be replicated. I chalked it up to a bad card and put it in my mother's PC...it's still running fine years later, but it is not gamed on. Point being: funky stuff does happen.

 
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Yeah I did some googling and it is definitely artifacting, so now that the problem is identified property I have to fix it. I have run the Catalyst update and I have the most current and I have also tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers completely. I never have over clocked it and it still does this when I have it on the lowest settings, plus this card should be able to handle this game on ultra. I run on ultra and in certain areas of the map I don't have this problem. I used the Catalyst control center for monitoring the GPU.

I have a warranty on the card so I might just go get it replaced if nothing works.
 
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Is your card at all overclocked, even factory? What quality settings and resolution are you using in your other "higher end" games? And again, are you running any kind of GPU software like MSI Afterburner to monitor temps and fan curve?

EDIT: I just saw your reply above after posting this. So changing game settings still does not alleviate the issue. Short of having some sort of thermal issue causing performance throttling, or you not having a PSU good enough to run everything, I can't imagine what else is going on.

 
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Since you were able to identify the problem as artifacting it helped me a lot. I found out this is a common problem with this card and lucky I was still under warranty. I was able to trade it in at MicroCenter for a Geforce GTX 970, hopefully things go better with this one. Thanks!
 
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Good luck, and yes AMD seems to have a lot of driver issues.

(Sorry my comment wasn't quite accurate since I somehow tuned out the fact you had the issue in previous games).

GTX970 install tips:

1) Use DDU to remove current drivers http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html
2) Install NVidia drivers (NVidia main site)
3) Benchmark if you want.

*May want to consider upgrading to Windows 10 if you have not done so. If considering this be advised a new build is coming this month that allows a clean install so you don't have to upgrade first before doing a clean install. I do recommend a clean install, though that requires careful planning.

(BTW, you can keep all your Steam games if you keep just the "Steamapps" folder, then REPLACE the new one, verify games... ask later if needed)

I get 70,000 roughly with my i7-3770K + GTX680. I'd expect roughly 100,000 with the GTX970 though that will vary a bit with your CPU and card clock speed. It's just a VERY rough guide. I also find it useful to test occasionally to see if performance has changed: http://www.futuremark.com/benchmarks/legacy

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NVidia Shadowplay (now NVidia Share I think with newer or beta drivers) works really well to record game or desktop with almost no performance drop. I even got 1440p, 60FPS with less than 5% frame rate drop (VSYNC OFF to test though normally I leave it on).

NVidia is really keeping on the ball with driver updates and other software. In the future you may want to consider a good GSYNC monitor once prices drop. I'm waiting for a $500USD 1440p IPS GSYNC monitor.
 
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Thanks yeah I already have win 10 and I installed the new video card and everything is working great so far. I plan on checking out ShadowPlay, I was using AMD Gaming Evolved which has worked pretty good for the most part.

 
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