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Why is there still screen tearing even when fps are limited to be equal to monitor refresh rate?
Tearing occurs when the graphics card's buffer is sent to the monitor while that same buffer is being changed. You still get tearing even if the FPS is limited to the refresh rate of the monitor ...
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What is V-Sync and when should I enable it?
V-Sync is short for "Vertical Synchronization"; its only purpose is to avoid screen tearing in games.
What is screen tearing?
Image by Vanessaezekowitz, via Wikimedia Commons. Used under ...
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What is ray tracing?
In normal rendering, you have light sources, solid surfaces that are being lit, and ambient light. The brightness of a surface is calculated depending on distance and angle relative to the light ...
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What is ray tracing?
Traditionally, home computer games have employed a technique called rasterization. In rasterization, objects are described as meshes, composed of polygons which are either quads (4 vertices) or tris (...
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Why is there still screen tearing even when fps are limited to be equal to monitor refresh rate?
Because even if your fps is the same as refresh rate of the monitor, it doesn't mean the frames are synchronized with the refresh rate. Screen tearing can happen at any fps, if vsync is off.
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Nvidia Quadro FX 1700 graphics card rejected by latest WoW update - suggestions please?
Blizzard is aware that some older DirectX 11 cards without Shader Model 5 support are no longer compatible after the updates. They are working on a fix that will allow players to continue to play on ...
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What is hardware video decoding, and should I enable it?
This option will allow your GPU (graphics processing unit) to process certain video data, instead of your CPU doing it.
This is a good thing if your GPU will do a better job than your CPU - it will ...
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Extreme FPS Drop in Counter Strike Global Offensive
So, considering the discussion in the comments, and my opinion, possible causes of the FPS drop and screen tearing for the specific game in question, CS:GO, would be (in order of likeliness)
Corrupt ...
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Are low profile GPUs better than laptop GPUs or are they same thing?
Low profile GPUs are not the same as mobile/laptop GPUs.
Low profile GPUs generally are designed around reducing the physical size of the GPU, and not necessarily efficiency (though that ends up being ...
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How to read system requirements & compare GPUs?
Unfortunately there isn't really a concrete way to look at models numbers and know how they will perform or which is better. Model names are arbitrary and naming schemes may change from time to time. ...
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Extremely low FPS in all the games
Issue resolved. The problem was with the charger, it was not giving the rated output.
Learning
If drivers and a hard reset do not fix the problem, temperatures are
normal, clock speed is not ...
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What is ray tracing?
The current predominant method for rendering 3D graphics is called rasterisation. It's a relatively imprecise way of rendering 3D, but it's extremely fast compared to all other methods of 3D rendering....
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Seeing Red/White checkerboard pattern in Civ V
I eventually found out that the game was "missing assets", meaning textures and images it needed because not all the necessary files were downloaded. By "verifying" my steam installation, it updated ...
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What games did NVIDIA come through on regarding RTX and DLSS?
Games that currently support:
Deep Learning Super-Sampling AND RTX ray tracing:
Metro Exodus 1
Battlefield V 1.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 3
Wolfenstein: Youngblood 4
Control 8
DLSS only:
Anthem 5
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Nvidia Quadro FX 1700 graphics card rejected by latest WoW update - suggestions please?
I went to a shop looking to buy a newer card, but they told me that most likely my old computer's motherboard would not support the current generation of graphics cards.
That's a half-truth and ...
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How to play Diablo III in a Virtual Machine?
I was testing and playing with the config file (desperately), and in my specific case the solution was to use Windowed Mode, so I can't run at Full-Screen but Windowed mode works perfectly.
Just open ...
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Higher graphics card on a laptop with a lower one
Your question seems a bit absurd. You can't download a graphic card. Maybe what you actually mean is download a driver for a graphic card which is better than the one you have installed.
If you have ...
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How to turn off this graphic effect on The Outer Worlds?
None of the posted images look off when compared to any and all released footage of the gameplay in online videos (both official trailers and let's plays).
I'm discounting the first image as the ...
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Can I force Steam to use my Nvidia GPU instead of the integrated Intel card?
This may not answer the question exactly, but could help determine if the nvidia card is being switched to during high load (which is part of what the question is about).
Optimus State Viewer
Using ...
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What are the differences between the different anti-aliasing / multisampling settings?
In addition to the excellent answers already here, I'd like to mention the relatively new SMAA, or "Subpixel Morphological Antialiasing", which is, like FXAA, a post-process antialiasing method. In ...
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How to make games in low resolutions scale to full-screen on Nvidia GT 640M?
Yes, it is possible, though it's horrendously unintuitive and weird to configure. I've tried to find it out many times, but wasn't able, so I stayed with this small window for years. But I've finally ...
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Vampire: The Masquerade -- Redemption refuses to use dedicated GPU, relies on Intel HD Graphics instead
The nVidia 950M is dedicated yes, but also a budget card and subject to how the laptop was laid out. For your specific issues, remember you're talking about a game that was released in 2000, nearly 17 ...
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What was "LCD CGA" graphics mode?
It's actually very simple: back in the era of early DOS laptops (late eighties to early ninties) there were various implementations of CGA laptop screens, including small CRT monitors, plasma monitors ...
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Texture issues, glitched screens, crashes in games
The solution turned out to be simpler than I expected: installing libtxc_dxtn.i686 (the 32-bit version, to be exact), a texture-related package, solved all issues in the 3 games:
sudo dnf install ...
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Black Screen when alt-tab or exiting fullscreen games in Windows 10
You can fix this by running the game in full-screen windowed mode, instead of running it in full-screen. The difference here is that you might lose out a tiny bit on high graphic games. When a game ...
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Gigabyte Gpu GTX 960 suddenly too slow for dx9 games
Ok, so after 3 weeks of going in circles, today I took out the motherboard battery and disconnected the power cable and made sure all charge has been discharged.
After putting the battery back and ...
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Fix LOD Texture Glitch in Oblivion
After investigating the issue further, I have found that the game sometimes incorrectly detects your graphics card and sets everything to absolute minimum. The core of the problem lies in the fact ...
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1080p on 4K display
The DSR article is about a 1080 display benefitting from 4K rendering, which is the opposite of your use case.
The image is a fair idea, except that 1080 is 1920x1080 and 4k is 4096x2160. 4096/2 is ...
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Windows 10 Video Driver Out-dated
You must install driver for your GPU "Microsoft Basic Display Adapter (32-Bit)", otherwise it won't open, as OpenGL comes with drivers. As this is a generic GPU, you probably should install all ...
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