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Having recently had the pleasure of using Mac OS X it made me realise how
much tearing of the native Windows 2D display i've tolerated for so long.
I'm using a Geforce 4 Ti4600 at 1024x768x32 @ 100hz and there seems to be no
way of ensuring that the display within Windows XP is vertically
synchronised at all times. The vertical tearing which occurs is most
noticable on Flash animation, when moving windows, or when browsing on
websites.
Vsync is on for both Direct3D and OpenGL but neither obviously effects
windows. Anyone have any idea how I can solve this? Interestingly the
tearing is lots of smaller choppier tears at 60hz-85hz on my monitor, but at
100hz the tear is an obvious long vertical "smooth" tear that works its way
up the monitor accentuating the exact difference in timing which is occuring
between the video output and the CRT refresh rate. This makes me think there
is a master setting that the video card is outputting and its simply a case
of finding that and setting the refresh rate to it to stop the tearing (I
can easily set manual specific refresh values using Powerstrip).
Any reply is appreciated in fixing this, most PCs i've ever seen exhibit
this problem and its unsightly once you realise what to look for.
If its simply a driver problem, does anyone have an email address for nVidia
so I can request the addition of a Vsync toggle for windows into the next
forceware edition?
Cheers
Jonathan
Having recently had the pleasure of using Mac OS X it made me realise how
much tearing of the native Windows 2D display i've tolerated for so long.
I'm using a Geforce 4 Ti4600 at 1024x768x32 @ 100hz and there seems to be no
way of ensuring that the display within Windows XP is vertically
synchronised at all times. The vertical tearing which occurs is most
noticable on Flash animation, when moving windows, or when browsing on
websites.
Vsync is on for both Direct3D and OpenGL but neither obviously effects
windows. Anyone have any idea how I can solve this? Interestingly the
tearing is lots of smaller choppier tears at 60hz-85hz on my monitor, but at
100hz the tear is an obvious long vertical "smooth" tear that works its way
up the monitor accentuating the exact difference in timing which is occuring
between the video output and the CRT refresh rate. This makes me think there
is a master setting that the video card is outputting and its simply a case
of finding that and setting the refresh rate to it to stop the tearing (I
can easily set manual specific refresh values using Powerstrip).
Any reply is appreciated in fixing this, most PCs i've ever seen exhibit
this problem and its unsightly once you realise what to look for.
If its simply a driver problem, does anyone have an email address for nVidia
so I can request the addition of a Vsync toggle for windows into the next
forceware edition?
Cheers
Jonathan