Screen tearing

[Shadow-Phoenix]

Out of all the problems in games I've ever encountered screen tearing has to be the worst in my eyes, I've only seen it happen a few games spanning over the past 6 years but recently I decided to boot up Assassins Creed II on PC since I last played it back in 2009 on Xbox 360, needless to say I didn't really see any such tearing that was noticable during my original playthrough but now trying the game on PC for the first time and I'm seeing it all over the place.

My journey into fixing this issue hasn't bore much fruit if any at all since I've been scanning forum after forum and Google results to find there's far more talk about the issue on PS3 than any on PC and the latest results for an Assassins Creed game on PC are Black Flag and a little of 3, I can hardly find any results for the issue on II with PC.

In the end I ended up trying multiple ways to combat this from forcing V-sync on via the Nvidia control panel and from there I tried:

Adaptive
Adaptive (half refresh rate)
Triple buffering on/off
V-sync on/off (control panel)
V-sync on/off (game settings)

So far nothing has worked at all and it's been driving me up the wall to a point where I just don't feel like playing the game, I've never felt this frustrated that I finally got myself in the mood to play a Creed game after all these years and now the feeling's gone straight out the window, not to mention I can't kill Uplay since I launched the game from Steam, had to reinstall Uplay because apparently I didn't have Uplay yet there was a game launcher within my x86 folder which crashed every time I tried logging into it.

Seriously fuck Ubisoft, I don't even know why I bother with this tripe anymore because it feels pointless when I can play other games that run smooth, don't require me having to re-install other DRM in order to just launch and play a game smoothly.

Apart from that I'd love to ask what issues drive you up the wall and how do you feel about screen tearing and how you overcome it?.

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

What's the refresh rate on your monitor? What framerate are you getting in game? 60? 30? Sub-30? The most obvious thing I can think of is turning some settings down to get your framerate closer to the refresh rate of your monitor. Vsynch only really works at integer factors of the refresh rate. If you have a 60Hz monitor, then the two highest possible smooth framerates are 60 and 30. If you're getting sub 30, Vsynch probably wont help you.

It's a generic PnP Acer monitor displaying at 60Hz (according to DxDiag it also has 32 bit in brackets for some reason) and so far the frames are smooth and GeForce Exp tells me I can do it all on max (to be fair I can handle old games like Skyrim/DE:HR the same), I never thought of turning down some settings but something tells me that might not erase the entire tearing issue but I'll give it a shot.

I'm also sporting a MSI 660ti pe 2gb model.

Edit:

After changing all the settings from high to medium to low the issue still remains.

I don't understand why this is happening I haven't had an issue this bad with any of my other games, not even one like Dishonored or the latest Gauntlet game.

 

[Irick]

What's the refresh rate on your monitor? What framerate are you getting in game? 60? 30? Sub-30? The most obvious thing I can think of is turning some settings down to get your framerate closer to the refresh rate of your monitor. Vsynch only really works at integer factors of the refresh rate. If you have a 60Hz monitor, then the two highest possible smooth framerates are 60 and 30. If you're getting sub 30, Vsynch probably wont help you.

It's a generic PnP Acer monitor displaying at 60Hz (according to DxDiag it also has 32 bit in brackets for some reason) and so far the frames are smooth and GeForce Exp tells me I can do it all on max (to be fair I can handle old games like Skyrim/DE:HR the same), I never thought of turning down some settings but something tells me that might not erase the entire tearing issue but I'll give it a shot.

I'm also sporting a MSI 660ti pe 2gb model.

Edit:

After changing all the settings from high to medium to low the issue still remains.

I don't understand why this is happening I haven't had an issue this bad with any of my other games, not even one like Dishonored or the latest Gauntlet game.

You might just have to bite the bullet, turn on vsync buffering and deal with the few frames of input lag if it really bothers you. (assuming the game gives you the option)

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

What's the refresh rate on your monitor? What framerate are you getting in game? 60? 30? Sub-30? The most obvious thing I can think of is turning some settings down to get your framerate closer to the refresh rate of your monitor. Vsynch only really works at integer factors of the refresh rate. If you have a 60Hz monitor, then the two highest possible smooth framerates are 60 and 30. If you're getting sub 30, Vsynch probably wont help you.

It's a generic PnP Acer monitor displaying at 60Hz (according to DxDiag it also has 32 bit in brackets for some reason) and so far the frames are smooth and GeForce Exp tells me I can do it all on max (to be fair I can handle old games like Skyrim/DE:HR the same), I never thought of turning down some settings but something tells me that might not erase the entire tearing issue but I'll give it a shot.

I'm also sporting a MSI 660ti pe 2gb model.

Edit:

After changing all the settings from high to medium to low the issue still remains.

I don't understand why this is happening I haven't had an issue this bad with any of my other games, not even one like Dishonored or the latest Gauntlet game.

You might just have to bite the bullet, turn on vsync buffering and deal with the few frames of input lag if it really bothers you. (assuming the game gives you the option)

That's the thing even with V-sync both control panel and in game on with triple buffering I still get the same tearing rate, I'll probably just uninstall the game for now since I just can't play it with that level of tearing, it even happens with the cutscenes and just makes the game unplayable for me.