Unfixable screen tearing after GPU upgrade : V

» Wed Sep 17, 2014 9:48 am

Hi all,

I have this really annoying screen tearing which appeared after I upgraded my GPU. I have tried everything I could find on the internet and several forums. Nothing works. For example, I have already tried setting the V-sync to adaptive in Nvidia Inspector. Nothing. Turning V-sync on or off in the .Ini's (Including the enblocal.ini) along with all the possible combinations that come with it. Nothing.

The strange thing is that without the Enb, which didn't cause any tearing on my old card, the tearing is gone. This made me to believe the problem had to be in the enblocal.ini settings, but again nothing I tried worked which left me without a clue what to do next to try and fix it. Most of the time I manage to fix my own problems with Skyrim but this time I'm really stumped. This is why I come to you Elder Scrolls community. :tongue:

Here is a list of things I tried to make troubleshooting somewhat easier.

1. Trying out all of the different combinations of the V-sync [on/off] settings in the Skyrim.ini's, the Enblocal.ini, and Nvidia Inspector

2. I tried out different monitors and they all have the same problem

3. Turning Triple Buffering on or off

4. Changing V-sync tear control to Adaptive, Standard and even League of Legends

5. Installing another Enb

6. Using "the One Tweak" for Borderless Window

7. Changing the Max pre-rendered frames

8. Changing all kinds of other graphical settings, which have nothing to do with V-sync or anthing, but I hoped it might work. You never know but to no avail.

As you can see this problem has been quite the enigma for me. I would be really grateful If you guys could lend me some assistance with this.

Thanks in advance.

» Wed Sep 17, 2014 7:24 am

First thing to try, disable the Nvidia Control Panel and see how the game runs. The control panel is there for post game video processing, and the less of that the better with the game. Same with the Nvidia Experience program (that just updates your drivers automatically, not always a good thing)

Are you running any mods, in particular, ENB's? Perhaps something needs to be tweaked in those settings.

Did you have an ATI/AMD card before? If so, did you use something like Driver Sweeper to completely remove the ATI drivers?

http://www.guru3d.com/content-page/guru3d-driver-sweeper.html

» Wed Sep 17, 2014 2:42 pm

Do you have Windows Aero enabled ???

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I thing there are two options on enblocal.ini you should try.

EnableFPSLimiter=true or EnableVSync=true in enblocal.ini.

» Wed Sep 17, 2014 2:01 pm

REad above posts too.....

Post what card you have and what ENB you are using.

» Wed Sep 17, 2014 6:59 am

Nice to see you around.!!! :wink:

» Wed Sep 17, 2014 12:10 pm

First of all thanks for the replies everyone. :smile: Now let's get to business. :tongue:

Well disabling the Nvidia Control Panel sadly didn't work. I am running mods and Enb, but I already tried disabling all my mods and the Enb to no avail. I saw absolutely no difference between my mod enabled setup and the one without mods. Disabling the Enb did help a bit but it didn't completely eliminate the problem. Funny thing though without the Enb I only have screen tearing in exteriors and with ENB I only have it in interiors and cities. I was first using Kountervibe Enb, but I switched to K-Enb after a while to see if it would perhaps help with the screen tearing but it didn't do anything. I kept it though because I like it more. :tongue:

I had a GTX 770 before and I upgraded to a 780 because things became too graphically intensive for the poor 770. The 780 helps a bunch with these problems but now it's as if I traded having no screen tearing for extra performance. I still used Driver Sweeper to be completely sure though because I didn't trust Windows auto updating the driver. Alas also to no avail.

I already read your post suggesting somebody else to try and enable Windows Aero but sadly it didn't work for me. I also already tried playing around with the Enblocal settings for EnableFPSLIMITER and EnableVsync but neither of them really had any effect. The FPS limiter did nothing, and turning Enb's V-Sync on or off didn't really do anything except for changing the type of tearing. With it enabled I have Horizontal Tears and with it disabled edges of objects for example pillars tear.

» Wed Sep 17, 2014 7:04 pm

What's your monitor native refresh rate ???

» Wed Sep 17, 2014 3:55 pm

It's 60Hz. I capped at 60fps though as V-sync seems to be working, except it for some reason doesn't remove the tears. I tried capping it at a lower fps a couple of times like 50, 30 and 20 but in every case the screen tearing managed to persist.

» Wed Sep 17, 2014 3:05 pm

On windowed mode ???