Help, Question, Screen tearing in Fullscreen?

I have a basic or below basic computer, but I feel like I shouldn’t be screen tearing this match. I have a GTX 1080 and a basic 60hz monitor. I’ve basically been ignoring the screen tearing because it only happens mostly turning fast in doorways. I started to look more into what causes screen tear and found a bunch of forums saying make sure VSync is off in Nivida etc. Nothing woking, frames lock at 60 and still tearing like crazy. What I found really interesting is apparently this is only happening when I’m in Fullscreen in Overwatch. When on the borderless window this doesn’t happen and screen tearing is basically gone. Does anyone know the reasoning for this? Is there something I missing.
Also, Vsync is off in Borderless as well.

VSync is made for preventing screen tears.

People tell to disable it because it can cause some FPS drops, but enable VSync when you’re actually encountering screen tears!

If the issues persues after enabling VSync, please do move your issue to #technical-support for further troubleshooting.

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Yea, vsync is supposed to help with tearing.

Tearing usually occurs when your Monitor is displaying frames a lot slower than it is getting frames. (i think) so it starts cutting frames and some parts come sooner or later. its weird. But this doesnt happen when your GPu is producing the exact same amount of frames being displayed by your monitor.

So thats what vsync does. it syncs your monitor refresh rate and framerate to stop tearing.

I think it may be an issue with your monitor. Probably something to do with pixel response time. Depending on the monitor, it may be able to refresh at 60hz but its pixel response is slower, which leads to more tearing. Try using a different monitor, maybe something more expensive/known to be better. See if it helps.

If it doesn’t, id invest in a higher refresh rate monitor. at higher hz the tearing (if any) will be far less noticeable.

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Vsync prevents screen tearing at the cost of input delay. I highly recommend playing with vsync off and just dealing with the screen tearing though. If it’s really that bad, I recommend upgrading to a gsync or compatible free sync monitor.

As for the reason it doesn’t happen in windowed mode is because Windows OS applies vsync to any application run on the desktop. It will not apply vsync to full screen apps though so you should always run games in full screen mode.

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To avoid tearing set fps slightly above monitor refresh rate. If you have 60hz put 70 or 75 and will go away. At or below will cause tearing.

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Use the “fast sync” option under the V-sync option in nvidia’s options. It adds much less input delay and do not reduce performance like normal V-sync, but it removes all tearing. Put your FPS cap in overwatch off or a few frames below what you averages for more stable frame times at the cost of a minimal amount of extra input delay, whatever you prefer.

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