Samsung S27D850T 1440p screen tear GTX 970

[crasherkid]

Hello,
I recently bought this monitor to try out gaming at 1440p with a single GTX 970/i5-4670k/8GB ram.
I get quiet a lot of screen tear no matter what I'm playing, especially on Arma 3 what I'm currently playing.
Graphics auto detect always sets it to Ultra and my framerates vary between 45-60 FPS.
Is the tearing occurring because the GPU is throwing out more frames faster than the monitor can display them or is it the other way around?
I tried turning on V-Sync but it becomes really laggy/choppy and juddery so playing without V-Sync with a bit of screen tear is a better experience out of the two.
What can I do to stop or reduce the screen tearing?

 

[postmortemIA]

Tearing happens when you don't use vsync, there is no synchronization between display and graphics card. If it is choppy with vsync, then it means your frame rate isn't as much as you thought ... vsync runs at discrete frequencies like 30Hz or 60Hz.

Can you try adaptive vsync from Nvidia control panel? The adaptive vsync is first attempt in solving the vsync problem: unlike regular vsync that has limited number of frequencies used, in this case vsync is disabled until you reach high frame rate

Other options are costly
get Freesync/ G sync monitor
get faster graphics card

 

[crasherkid]

Hi and thank you so much for the reply.
I have read around online and just like you advised, I tried V-Sync and adaptive buffer.
With V-Sync on the tearing was minimized but I still saw it only a little but the game felt a little slow and stuttery.
It seems the gameplay seems much smoother with V-Sync off at the expense of screen tearing.
My monitor is 2560x1440p/60Hz running via a single GTX 970.
Is my GPU rendering frames quicker than the monitor can display them? If this is the case, then how is a faster GPU (980 or another 970 for SLI) going to improve things as these will be throwing out frames almost twice the amount?

 

[crasherkid]

Anyone?

 

[crasherkid]

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