Image Tearing and Vsync

[cap1]

hey everyone i'm new to these forums. how is everyone?

I recently purchased a new pc and monitor, and noticed that I have image tearing on every game I play. Games like crysis, bad company 2, battlefield 2. I searched the net and found out about vertical sync, so I went into the nvidia control panel and turned it to 'force on' and it pretty much removed all of the tearing, everything looks smooth now. My question is...should I keep vsync on even when I'm not playing games? are there any disadvantages to it? or is there any other way to get rid of the tearing?

my specs:
windows 7 64 bit
intel i5 2500k 3.30 ghz
8 gb ram
gtx 560 ti superclocked
Asus VE228H monitor, connected by hdmi

 

[ViRGE]

The only disadvantages to using vsync are during games. If you're fine with it in your games, then it's fine to leave it on everywhere else.

 

[johnxfire]

It would be preferable to just switch on vsync from the in-game settings, but forcing it on wont affect performance outside gaming at all.

 

[Idontcare]

Welcome to the forums cap1! :thumbsup:

 

[cap1]

Thanks. I found a setting where it turns on vsync only for select programs that I choose, so i did it for my games. @johnxfire, the only game i found with vsync as an in-game option was bad company 2 so i turned it on for that game. I also read that triple buffering helps with the performance issues so I turned that on. Didn't really notice a change but ill keep it on. Tearing sucks, im glad its fixed. thanks everyone.

Can't wait for battlefield 3! one of the reasons I upgraded my pc

 

[toyota]

triple buffering from your cards control panel has no impact on directx games. only the handful of games that are opengl will be impacted by that setting.