How to Fix Screen Tearing?

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Faowin

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Hello, I've had my computer for a little over two years now and it's been great. I built the computer myself and started it all up perfectly fine. However, around the two year mark I noticed it was getting a bit slow and full of stuff I didn't want or need so I decided to wipe it and start with a fresh start. It's been about a week since then and I've had horrible screen tearing ever since then, and I don't know what I've done wrong. I've looked at many other questions and answers but they don't seem to help. I've downloaded all the drivers from the motherboard website (http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z97%20Pro3/?cat=Download&os=Win764) except for a rapid start which I don't think is relevant and a VGA driver, which I think is. The odd thing is that I get this message for both of them whenever I try to install them: (https://gyazo.com/ee5f586ceac3cbadae2a64c21787f0ba) I decided to try to go on without it and download the GeForce Experience and get those drivers and see if it worked. my monitors are working fine now and everything seemed to be working at first but it started tearing, not even on games just videos and web pages themselves. I've tried going into my Nvidia Control Panel and changing different settings in the V-Sync setting, but it still doesn't work.

Can someone please confirm whether or not it is this VGA driver and if so, how to install it? If not, is there a driver I missed that I should have downloaded but didn't or something else altogether? Thanks
 
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First of all in the Nvidia Control Panel check that in the first option "Adjust image settings with preview" you have the second option selected "use the advanced 3d settings...". If not select it and push apply at the bottom right. If you do then click the take me there link next to the option. Under global settings scroll down and where it says vsync change it to ON. Do this also for triple buffering and click apply.

Secondly make sure your browser / media player is using gpu acceleration.
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It's usually the monitor that causes screen tearing, and GPUs can do some things to attempt to fix that.

If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file called "[Guru3D.com]-DDU.zip"
Right click and choose extract.
Go into the folder and run the DDU v##.##.exe
This will extract more files to this folder.
Run Display Driver Uninstaller.exe
Choose Yes when it asks you to boot into SafeMode.
After you've rebooted into safe mode.
When DDU comes up, if it hasn't selected your GPU manufacturer (Nvidia/AMD/Intel) then choose it from the drop down list
Press the Clean and Restart option
If a window comes up asking to disable the Windows automatic installation of display drivers click yes.

After (or before removing the old drivers, just put the new ones on the desktop or somewhere handy) rebooting back into Windows, manually download the latest drivers from Nvidia or AMD, don't use auto detect, choose you GPU model and OS from the drop down lists.
Nvidia: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
AMD: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
Intel: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/detect.html
 
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Faowin

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I just finished what you suggested and it still hasn't worked. Is there anything else that could be it other than the monitors? The reason I don't feel like it's the monitors is because everything was fine until I decided to wipe the HD and start with a fresh OS. Only and immediately after that did the screen tearing start.
 
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Faowin

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Nope, wasn't that either. The only thing I can think of that is different from this new version and my original is this new GeForce Experience. I didn't originally have this GeForce Experience 3.0, but I do now. (http://www.geforce.com/geforce-experience) Getting it from there, unless if I'm out of the loop it's the official website. I have a friend who is saying it could be in the EUFI/BIOS but I couldn't find anything that would lead to my problem, but I didn't know what I was looking for either, got any other suggestions? Is there like a way I can backtrack to an older version of GeForce Experience?
 
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First of all in the Nvidia Control Panel check that in the first option "Adjust image settings with preview" you have the second option selected "use the advanced 3d settings...". If not select it and push apply at the bottom right. If you do then click the take me there link next to the option. Under global settings scroll down and where it says vsync change it to ON. Do this also for triple buffering and click apply.

Secondly make sure your browser / media player is using gpu acceleration.
 
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