Anyone else having trouble with screen tearing. Tried capping my frames in different ways but I still get screen tearing on the bottom of the screen if my FPS is below my refresh rate, and tearing while turning if it’s above my refresh rate. Any tips? Retail works fine, but classic WoW doesn’t like G-SYNC.
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Since it is running in Windowed Fullscreen, you have to set your desktop to your actual refresh rate.
Regardless of what your in-game settings are, and what refresh rate your monitor supports, Windows defaults to 60hz.
Go into the nVidia Control Panel (NOT the Windows Control panel - you CAN change it from there, but its way more complicated), go to Display, then Change Resolution. Set it to your desired resolution and then change the refresh rate to match your native refresh rate. This will override the stupid Windows-is-60hz-on-the-desktop crap, and should fix the tearing.
Drove me nuts too, when it was happening back in retail last winter.
You also need to make sure that the in-game settings will let it go past 60fps.
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Desktop resolution is 144, FPS in-game is capped at 144 but I’ve tried lower and uncapping and still the same issues. I’ve also messed with the NVIDIA settings and nothing has changed.
144 is frame rate, not resolution.
I run 144 fps cap, no tearing.
Right, I meant refresh rate instead of resolution. Meant Windows 10 refresh rate.
You can just use normal vsync anyhow. The game runs so well nowadays there’s no need for variable sync I notice no additional latency with it on.
I notice input lag with V-SYNC even though it’s very little. As a rogue I like to hop around and twist my camera, so it would bug me to not have the lowest amount of input delay. I’ve noticed that capping at 120 is the best medium between tearing and smooth play, so I might just stick with that. I think Classic just wasn’t meant to work with newer monitor technology which is understandable. Thanks for the suggestions though
I don’t use v-sync. I’m not sure if g-sync is even necessary if you can cap your own frame rate to match your monitor’s Hz.
Classic WoW absolutely does what original did and best utilizes single cores. I have a 6 core and my main core goes to town alone with classic.
Turn off (uncheck) Max Foreground FPS and Max Background FPS options in System > Advanced if you have it enabled. this was causing screen tearing for me and my G-Sync setup on a 1080
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Just got a brand new PC with a 4090 that had tearing and this fixed it. Thanks from 4 years in the future!
Screen tearing happens with an FPS cap, g sync tries to reduce such a thing, you might want to raise your FPS. If you are consistently at 144 frames even when there is lots of movement and activity you want to increase your FPS cap or uncap it.