Screen tearing?

[Guest]

I recently built a new PC and have been getting quite a bit of screen tearing. I've mainly tried Crysis and Mass Effect. Running on max settings for both.

What I get happens mostly in cutscenes, but sometimes also while in actual gameplay as well. It looks identical to this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Tearing_%28simulated%29.jpg

What could be the cause of this? Is it monitor related or GPU related? What can I do to fix the issue?

Specs: (No overlocking)
CPU: Intel Core i5
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-P55-UD4P
GPU: Asus Radeon 5850
RAM: G.Skill 4gb (2x2gb) DDR3 1600
PSU: Antec True Power New 650w
HDD: 500g 7200rpm Samsung Spinpoint F3
OS: Windows 7 64 bit

Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster T220

 

[Mousemonkey]

Have you turned v-sync on?

 

[jyjjy]

Yeah, screen tearing is usually easily fixed with v-sync

 

[Guest]

Yup I've tried it both with V-sync on and off.

 

[hypocrisyforever]

Hmm, if the screen still rips w/ vsync on, is it possible it is a monitor issue? Refresh rate probs or something. Normally vsync fixes that easily.....Just for kicks, i would try a different monitor.
Also, this may be a redundant question overposted, but are you running the latest drivers? That is a relatively new card...

 

[Guest]

Alright updates: Mass Effect seems to fix screen tearing with V-Sync, but it still sometimes happens just very rare. V-Sync doesn't seem to have much of an effect on Crysis though.

It's still pretty bad. Yeah, I've updated to the latest drivers. I think it's a monitor issue as well, but unfortunately I don't have another capable PC to test these games on to see if the monitor is the problem

 

[hypocrisyforever]

Alright updates: Mass Effect seems to fix screen tearing with V-Sync, but it still sometimes happens just very rare. V-Sync doesn't seem to have much of an effect on Crysis though.

It's still pretty bad. Yeah, I've updated to the latest drivers. I think it's a monitor issue as well, but unfortunately I don't have another capable PC to test these games on to see if the monitor is the problem

No, I'm saying, hook a different monitor up to this pc and see if the issue persists.....

 

[Guest]

I meant I don't have that either at my apartment, I should be able to borrow one though - definitely going to try that tonight.

Thank you.

 

[jyjjy]

Hmm. Are you using the default resolution for the monitor?

 

[Guest]

No, I'm saying, hook a different monitor up to this pc and see if the issue persists.....[/quote]

What if the other display shows it as well? Does that mean its the video card?

 

[hypocrisyforever]

Well, it means, barring some weird monitor setting, that the monitor is not the cause of the tearing. IE< wrong refresh rate, not using native resolution, etc. It doesn't necessarily mean it is the video card, but yeah, it should mean it is something in the system. I would guess videocard....more accurately, videocard driver.

 

[Guest]

Alright it's the monitor. I was able to borrow a friend's LCD and it works flawlessly on his. Not a single tear or hiccup anywhere.

Supposively there's a ton of problems with this monitor as well as I've been researching it a lot. Guess it's time to call up Samsung.

 

[hypocrisyforever]

Alright it's the monitor. I was able to borrow a friend's LCD and it works flawlessly on his. Not a single tear or hiccup anywhere.

Supposively there's a ton of problems with this monitor as well as I've been researching it a lot. Guess it's time to call up Samsung.

Good deal, easy fix. Before getting rid of the monitor though, I would see if anyone has a spare dvi cable you could borrow. See if maybe something about the cable was faulty.

 

[gamerk316]

Odd...a 60Hz LCD shouldn't have ANY tearing problems, especially the Syncmaster line, which has really low Pixel Response Time...guess a defective moniter then.

 

[minanasery]

IT's simple, happened me once with crysis, and the problem that i was enabling the Lucid Virtu...Just disable it and run the game, you should do fine, seams that Lucid didn't cut out the edges pretty good on crysis..