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Hello, so this has only been an occurring issue for the past couple of weeks. Whilst playing Minecraft in fullscreen mode, I experience a huge amount of screentearing and a quiet whine. The whine decreases in volume as I lower the maximum FPS. This isn't the main problem. The screentearing only happens while in fullscreen mode, it doesn't happen in windowed mode, however, this is unplayable due to the input lag. I have a GTX 1060 and a fairly new PSU. I have a pretty old processor, it's an i5 4460S which is about 4 years old. The whining happens on a couple of other games and increases in volume as I turn up the graphics settings. The screentearing only happens while playing Minecraft in fullscreen mode. Please could someone assist me?
 
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The input lag is due to the lower fps. Screen tearing appears when you have more fps than your monitor can show. Which means fps > Screen frequency, hertz, like 60 120 144 Hz.
So you have this because you are running without Vsync or Gsync if you have a Gsync monitor. But your game will seem more "slow" if you enable Vsync. Just enable Vsync in your game. Or go to Nvidia control panel, select global and check Vsync with any of the options you like. (you can also select Vsync only for some specific games)

Second issue is also because of the same issue. The coil whine is your GPU/CPU coolers working at maximum to give you those frames which you don't use anyway. Vsync should solve that issue also. But again, you might feel the game is slower. Another fix is getting a higher frequency monitor, which is good only if you have like 200+ fps so your PC won't be overcharged too much but also you have enough fps to not seem "slow" since most default monitors have 60 fps. You could get a 90-120 monitor and use VSYNC. Or if 60 fps doesn't seem "slow" just use VSYNC now.
 
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You changed your settings or updated the Nvidia experience automatically. It might happen that they changed the settings from Vsync on to Vsync off. Did you have Vsync on before? Did the game seem slower but decent? Then Vsync was on. It limits you to 60 fps or how much your monitor can handle, so it's less costly on your GPU/CPU and also no screen tearing.

Anything else, can't be addressed to the same issue, like the parts getting dust or older, so they get hotter, therefore coil whine. Doesn't explain the tearing. Unless you don't know what tearing is or use it for another explanation.

This is tearing
This is tearing
****This is tearing
****This is tearing


That's how your images appear on your monitor ^ (apparently can't use spaces to show you the tearing so I added the *)

There is only one other possible reason this might happen, but usually you get artifacts or stuff on your monitor, not tearing of images, it's your GPU malfunctioning, but that's probably not the case if you experience tearing like I said. Just use MSI afterburner or easier, Fraps and check your in-game FPS. Compare that to your monitor's frequency, if it's higher, then it's tearing because of that. Just put Vsync on and see if it's as before these issues started.
 
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I reset my nvidia control panel settings, the issue still occurs. I never had VSync on, the game runs fine with VSync on, however, there is a huge amount of input lag which I can't deal with. The screentearing issue only happens when I'm playing in F11 Mode or fullscreen on Minecraft, in windowed mode there isn't any screentearing, but when I play in windowed mode there is a lot of input lag. The issue never used to happen. I'm not sure it's screen tearing, it feels like my FPS is dropping hugely and it constantly stutters. I still get about 800-1000 FPS while playing, but it feels stupidly laggy.
 
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That's stutter, not tearing tho, the image isn't cutting. That may occur due to the fact that your Windows is not focusing all it's power/attention on the specific game. It happens to me also, the way I fix it, is changing from fullscreen to windowed or borderless fullscreen OR by changing the player/browser. It's different from game to game.

You could try something else, go to your details tab in task manager, set the affinity to all the other cores but Core 0, on your game, in some cases it helps, I don't play Minecraft so I can't say for sure. But still if you leave the games without Vsync, it will cause coil whine and tearing, that's just how it works. Unless you have a gsync monitor, which you can check in your Nvidia control panel. Then use gsync and see if you have any improvements. I still think 800 fps is WAY too much, I am okay with 200 maybe, but 800 is torture on your system and you won't see 90% of the frames.
 
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Thanks, I capped the FPS to 200, and it fixed the coil whine. The game still stutters, but only when I am playing a youtube video in the background. This never used to happen, it always used to run smoothly. Is there any way to fix this, apart from purchasing new hardware (which I was going to do anyway)
 
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I told you previously, try different browsers. Even the Edge is good and has Addblockplus now, or Firefox. Or set the affinity of your game to all the cores but the first one, in task manager, details.

Or reinstall and clean your Chrome.
 
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I've tried reinstalling chrome and setting the affinity of the game to all the cores apart from the 0. Using other browsers seems to eliminate the heavy stuttering. I resetted chrome, but the issue still occurs. It never used to happen, is there anything which chrome has introduced such as any settings which might have caused this? Or is it a hardware problem, considering I haven't changed my RAM, Motherboard or CPU for 4 years.
 
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There are some bad patches, I have it with Firefox too, then I just change to Edge until it's fixed.

Honestly being loyal to one browser is a bit silly. And Chrome is known to use the most RAM and stuff. And Edge is pretty okay also.
 
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