Screen tearing in DCS with a 60Hz monitor

[Cy-27]

My monitor is 60Hz. My GPU is a AMD RX5700. The fps is often above 60 and the screen tearing is terrible. So I turn on the AMD Chill to lock my fps bettween 59 and 61, or just give it to 60. However, the screen tearing does not disappear. I do not know why. I do not want to turn on sync because the fps will jump bettween 30 and 60, which gives out a strong feeling of stutter. Will the screen tearing disappear if I get a 144Hz monitor?

[panzerd18]

Screen tearing should disappear if you get a Freesync monitor.

[Cy-27]

Screen tearing should disappear if you get a Freesync monitor.

 

Is there any monitor at 144hz that supports freesync?

[Lange_666]

Screen tearing happens because your image output is not in sync with the refreshrate of your monitor.

If you turn on VSync and you see it switching between 60 and 30 and then back up it means you have adaptive VSync selected and when the FPS output is below 60, it will jump to the next adaptive VSync frequency which is 30 to keep the images in sync with the refresh of your monitor to prevent tearing. It also means that you can't keep a steady output of at least 60 FPS.

Now if you go for a 144Hz monitor, how the hell in the world are you gonna put out an FPS of 144 to keep it in sync if you can't even reach 60 now?

Freesync (AMD) or GSync (nVidia) monitors could be an option.

 

+ If you happen to use TrackIR, you are limited to 60Hz refresh anyway if you don't want stutter on FPS values higher then 60.

Edited April 22, 2020 by Lange_666

[Aluminum Donkey]

My monitor is 60Hz. My GPU is a AMD RX5700. The fps is often above 60 and the screen tearing is terrible. So I turn on the AMD Chill to lock my fps bettween 59 and 61, or just give it to 60. However, the screen tearing does not disappear. I do not know why. I do not want to turn on sync because the fps will jump bettween 30 and 60, which gives out a strong feeling of stutter. Will the screen tearing disappear if I get a 144Hz monitor?

 

If the graphics card FPS is higher than your monitor's max refresh rate (usually 60 Hz) then you will always get screen tearing. Don't bother with high refresh rate monitors, 60 Hz is plenty for flight sims. It's also fine for most FPS games too.

 

If you're going to get a new monitor, get one with Freesync (Adaptive Refresh) and use that feature, instead of blowing your cash on one with a whopping high refresh rate, which probably won't get used in DCS very much anyway. It will make your screen update itself whenever the graphics card renders each new frame, so your monitor's refresh rate is always the same as whatever FPS the graphics card is producing. That way, you'll have no stutter or tearing even as the framerate varies.

 

I'm using a Freesync (AMD) monitor with an Nvidia card, and the newer Nvidia drivers allow the use of their cards with Freesync monitors for adaptive refresh.

 

Let me tell you man, adaptive refresh is the ONLY thing I've ever tried that allows me to run DCS reasonably smoothly. Absolutely nothing else whatsoever has ever helped.

 

If you ever get a new monitor make sure it has Freesync, and get it working! It makes a night-and-day difference. Make sure you turn on VSync as well (only in the graphics driver) to prevent the graphics card from rendering faster than the monitor will allow so it stops tearing, and you're good to go--you use Freesync and Vsync together.

 

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