Anyone else getting a high amount of horizontal screen tearing? I was wondering if thats just the way the game is going to look because the graphics are so old or if there’s something I can do to reduce it. I’ve turned on V-sync and that doesn’t seem to help. Also some of the objects look wavy from a distance. Not sure if thats screen tearing aswell. Just wanted to know if there was anything I could do about it. Because I don’t mind classics graphics but I hate screen tearing with a passion.
It’s not supposed to look like that…
Post your PC specs, and include your monitor. Screen tearing (assuming you have a decent rig) can sometimes be caused by a cheap monitor.
Overall, its your rig, not the game
in retail, I didn’t notice. but it’s been a while since I played retail.
I cap my fps in the wow settings at my monitor refresh rate. No screen tearing for me at ultra everything and no aa.
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I7-6700k
Gtx 1080
Asus rog swift monitor(144htz, 1440p, G-sync enabled)
Gigabyte motherboard( Don’t remember the exact model. I’m not on my PC at the moment)
Everything else, I would have to look up in my system information on my pc. I mainly notice the horizontal screen tearing on the ground when I’m running.
If you are using g-sync, to get g-sync to work you need to run at a refresh LOWER than your monitor’s cap.
Use a framerate limiter like Riva as I had issues with using WoW’s built in limiter. Run at 140 or 141.
In your G-Sync settings be sure to enable it for whatever mode you run your games in. Fullscreen or windowed fullscreen. They are 2 different settings, don’t forget.
Gsync doesn’t play nice with some windowed fullscreen apps yet.
Yea, i concur with what Mumra & Jd said.
My apologies; i assumed a cheap piece somewhere in the mix; but OP has opposite problem, too much powa…
Ive had similar issues playing ports of old games… open up your geforce control panel and lock the refresh at 60ghz should resolve the issue
That’s not screen tearing! that’s genuine 2004 blizzard tech! (yes, I get it, too)
I believe I’ve been seeing screen tearing as well.
You need to enable a setting in WoW.
Press Esc > System > Graphics
Look under Display for Vertical Sync. Switch it to Enabled, it is disabled by default.
My PC had the same problem until I made the change to my settings.
My PC Specs are:
Asus ROG Strix Z390-E Motherboard
Intel Core i9-9900K 8 Cores 3.6ghz to 5.0ghz Turbo CPU
Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 2666MHz (PC4-21300) RAM
Samsung 970 EVO 2TB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD
Noctua NH-U12S Heatsink/Fan
Samsung SF350 24in 1080p Monitor with Freesync 60hz 4ms
If my screen tearing went away and I’m still on i9’s integrated graphics, then your GTX 1080 should be running circles around my graphical performance.
He has GSync. If he wants to use it he can’t use VSync unless he plans to have it only kick in when it goes below the target framerate.
That’s why those of us with GSync cap our frametates to below monitor refresh. 141hz in my case. So we don’t see the hiccup when VSync drops and Gsync kicks in. It’s always a smooth experience.
This is not the problem.
Do not EVER use Vsync if you have a high end GPU and G-sync available, particularly on a high refresh display.
The problem is that WoW (even Classic, as it runs in the modern engine even if it uses the old art asssets) runs in Windowed Fullscreen and cannot be set to exclusive fullscreen.
The REASON this is a problem is because WIndows, by default, sets the desktop to 60hz, not whatever your native refresh is. Since WoW is Windowed Fullscreen, it is freaking out trying to run in both 60hz (because that is what the desktop is set to, and Windows tries to force it to do that as a WFSCN app) and your native refresh, or whatever you have the frame cap set to in-game (because the game is trying to force that) which causes G-sync to just fail to function.
You CAN fix this in the Windows control panel, but its a lot more steps than simply going into the nVidia Control panel, finding the “Set Resolution” option, setting it to your desired res, and then setting it to your monitors’ native refresh in the drop down next to the resolution selection menu.
This will tell Windows to run the Desktop in your native refresh, and will let G-sync take control properly. Also, make sure G-sync is set to work in both exclusive fullscreen and windowed fullscreen (set in the nVidia control panel). It defaults to only being enabled in ExFullscreen.
DONT go back in and use the Windows control panel to change your resolution again, because that will set it back to the 60hz default. Just use the nVidia panel (not that you should need to change this, really).
This should fix your problems. I had the same issue with both retail WoW and Destiny 2, and this was the cause.
Edit: Also, as someone pointed out previously, set your in-game FPS cap somewhere BELOW your full native refresh. If you’re pushing FPS past that, Gsync will disengage automatically, and you may get tearing again.
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Make sure G-Sync is enabled for full and windowed from the Nvidia settings panel.
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Thanks. Hopefully, I should be able to buy a nVidia graphic card soon and I’ll have to redo all of my graphic settings.